AE17.VA.7.3

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

AE17.VA.7.3
Develop and demonstrate skills with various techniques, methods, and approaches in creating art through repeated and persistent practice.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?

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 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

COS Examples

Example: Students complete short perception development activities, daily contour drawings, to improve observational drawing skills.