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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?
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
- Create a pre-drawing self-portrait at the beginning of a drawing unit and compare it to a finished self-portrait at the end of the unit.
- Write a survey at the beginning of a course to communicate prior knowledge and apprehensions of creating artwork and skill levels. At the end of the course review the survey to reflect on progress.
- Collaborate with other students to create a legacy project, communication-based posters or a mural.
- Collaboratively or individually compare, contrast and investigate self -portraits and social media selfies.
- Create an artwork that explores new techniques, with the understanding that the artwork is experimental.
- After exploring Tibetan sand mandalas, write a reflection, that highlights the importance of the process over product.
- Discuss, examine and describe the use and misuses of appropriating (plagiarizing) copyrighted artworks and designs.
- Describe the difference between the intent of graffiti vandalism and urban street art and the effects on various communities- compare defacing with creating.
- Create an artwork implementing ideas, organizational elements, foundations, skills, and techniques of visual art in a traditional and/or digital method.
- Engage - for the purposes of personal reflection and on-going improvement, group critiques.
- Create a rubric with teacher input to be used for evaluation purposes.
Vocabulary
- Creative Processes
- Organize and develop ideas
- Traditional Media
- Contemporary Media
- Fair Use
- Open Source
- Creative Commons
- Develop artistic ideas
- Plagiarizing
- Graffiti
- Defacing
- Criteria
- Refine and complete artistic work
- Archival
- Criteria
- Cultural Context
- Body of Artwork
- Collaborate
- Medium/ Media
- Genre
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
