Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.I.14

Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore subjects through art-making.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?

Skills Examples

  • Reflect on a previously completed daily journal of an art project.
  • Plan and journal the creating of a new idea inspired by a previous project.
  • Create a presentation focused on a specific subject matter and how media and artistic technique impacts how the viewer responds to the piece.
  • Demonstrate the creative process, with particular attention to investigating and planning new ideas, skills, foundations, and techniques of visual arts in order to create visual artworks.
  • Create an arts presentation that explores a variety of art medias that utilize the same subject matter.
  • Examine and compare the purposes of artworks in a historical setting versus contemporary setting.
  • Explore how setting, purpose, and overall context influence viewers' perceptions of visual images.
  • Investigate and discuss how visual artworks in different societal, cultural, and historical contexts.

Vocabulary

  • Innovative Thinking
  • Creative Processes
  • Multiple Solutions
  • Organize and Develop Ideas and Work
  • Technical Skill
  • Craftsmanship
  • Mat types and processes
  • Concentration
  • Breadth
  • Portfolio
  • Artistic problems can have more than one solution and can be approached from a variety of media.
  • Artwork is created with technical skill, craftsmanship and proficiency.
  • Artists are knowledgeable in copyright laws for images from various resources.
  • Artists create a plan for display of intended artwork.
  • Correct terminology is used when discussing or writing about art.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
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