Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.AD.9

Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
EQ: What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?

Skills Examples

  • Independently mat and prepare one's own work for display.
  • Apply concepts, following research, of various methods of preserving artwork across different cultures.
  • Plan an exhibition showcasing one's own body of work.
  • Write an artist's statement, with curatorial and personal reflections for each work of art in personal show or concentration.
  • Create a portfolio of wide-ranging work to use for future ventures. Include in the portfolio an artist's statement, with curatorial and personal reflections for each work of art.
  • After meeting with a curator at a local museum, create a presentation about the various methods of preservation and the circumstances to which each method is best suited.
  • Select and organize a collection of artworks to prepare for an exhibit, taking into account the artist messages and impact on the viewers.
  • Research and select specific art reproductions, describing the artworks' social, historical, and cultural influence on the world.
  • Critique peers' and one's own work for revision and clarity of a cohesive body of work.
  • Interact with viewers of one's own work on display. Converse and explain methods and reasoning behind choices. Reflect on viewer perception and personal intent.

Vocabulary

  • Artist Statement
  • Abstraction
  • Animation
  • Distortion
  • Elaboration
  • Fragmentation
  • Juxtaposition
  • Magnification
  • Metamorphosis
  • Multiplication
  • Reversals
  • Simplification
  • Viewpoint
  • Form, intent, and content complement each other
  • Intent drives the selection of media and technique
  • Mix and blend materials
  • Expand on new ideas of communicating visually.
  • Making informed choices to communicate effectively.
  • Artists pursue new and innovative ways to create multiple themed artworks with technical skill and mastery while maintaining and caring for materials.
  • Reflect, re-engage, revise and refining works of art.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
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