AE17.VA.6.2

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 6 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.6.2
Formulate an artistic investigation and discovery of relevant content for creating art.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
EQ: How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?

Skills Examples

Make, share and revise a list of ideas and preliminary sketches.
Use introductory skills, techniques, and elements of art to create a composition
Demonstrate drawing techniques, such as hatching, cross-hatching, shading, and stippling.
Create a group project about a current or world event.
Examine careers and identify and role - play various jobs of artists.
Research a subject or idea that has personal meaning to create a work of art.
Use the elements of visual arts to create an artwork that depicts emotions.
Use a variety of media and techniques in two and three dimensions to create imagery from experience, observation and imagination.
Demonstrate proper clean-up and/or disposal of equipment and materials.
Demonstrate art room safety and procedures.
Design an environmentally area for the school such as a library or other multi-use learning area.
Engage for the purpose of personal reflection and ongoing revision, in group critiques.
Reflect through journal writing artist intent.