AE17.VA.7.1

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 7 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.7.1
Implement methods to overcome creative blocks.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
EQ: What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?

Skills Examples

Demonstrate how to create a think -map to assist with creative blocks.
Discuss collaboratively various ideas and innovations that can overcome the creative block and develop ideas.
Look at examples of work by student and/artists to gain inspiration.
Develop and apply critical thinking skills to create a work of art that communicates an identified goal.
Work alone or collaboratively to design a travel poster.
Demonstrate perseverance in order to create high quality works of art.
Plan, sketch and revise in the process of creating a work of art.
Demonstrate various techniques in watercolor painting such as wet-on-wet, dry brush, wet-on-dry, and flat wash.
Examine and describe the use and misuse of the practice of appropriating copyrighted artworks and designs in their artwork.
Demonstrate care of materials, tools, and equipment when creating works of art.
Use visual organization skills to design a flyer for a community function.
Write an artist statement for a body of one's own original completed artwork.
Demonstrate visual arts vocabulary in an artist's journal when reflecting on their own processes and artwork.

Vocabulary

Artistic processes
Various approaches to art making
Artist statement
Copyright Laws
Fair Use Responsibility
Plagiarize
Reflecting
Revising
Audience and Purpose
Critique
Visual Organization
Context
Technology
Mount

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

COS Examples

Example: Students brainstorm possible images by sharing and listing ideas in small groups.