AE17.VA.5.7

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.5.7
Define the roles and responsibilities of museum and gallery staff, explaining the skills and knowledge needed to preserve, maintain, and present objects, artifacts, and artwork.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects, artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
EQ: How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?

Skills Examples

Identify and role-play various occupations that involve artists.
Talk about how the skills and techniques of visual arts can be an enhancement to any career choice.
Show how to carefully prepare and present artwork.
Describe how the knowledge, skills, and work habits of visual arts are used in the world of work, including careers in visual arts.
Talk about how a museum would present information about the Harlem Renaissance.
Research different types of museums and the role that visual art plays in the restoration, care, and display of artifacts.
Select three of one's own artworks for display and share the reasons for the selection.

Vocabulary

Cultural context
Formal & conceptual vocabulary
Genre
Linear perspective
Preserve
Principles of design

Movement
Emphasis

Relief
Vanishing point

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.