Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
EQ: What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
EQ: What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
Skills Examples
- Create a unique mat or frame.
- Create a piece inspired by an environment and/or for an environment.
- Explore ways to preserve works of art in various environments.
- Explore ways that museums or galleries restore works of arts exposed to various environments.
- Explore testing how materials may be impacted by an environment prior to creating a work of art.
- Curate an online gallery of artist work.
- Curate a body of work with a specific theme by various artists.
- Present a presentation of works that are related by theme, subject matter, time period, or artist and explain the connection and impact of each piece.
- Design a pop up gallery space in a school.
- Research an artist’s body of work and create a timeline presentation of their work to offer insight into their process, history, or cultural impacts.
- Research and create a work of art that is intentionally meant to disappear or disintegrate or not last longer that a short time period.
- Explore how a work is only preserved in a video or photograph.
- Work collaboratively to create an art show.
- Work with local venues to host an art show.
- Hide mini works of art around the school or in a public venue (with permission).
- Work collaboratively with another art form (dance, music, theater, digital media) to create a work of art with a collaborative purpose and artistic meaning to be displayed or used in a new way (backdrop for dancers, video for music).
Vocabulary
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
- Portraiture
- Figures
- Landscapes
- Cityscapes
- Everyday Life
- Social Issues
- Personal History
- Conceptual/ Text-based Art
- Image Appropriation
- Conceptual Art
- Reflection
- Innovative thing are essential life skills.
- Understanding contexts, histories and traditions that lead artists to break established traditions.
- Experimentation of various art forms to express visual communication.
- Responsible and ethical use of resources is essential when creating works of art.
- People interact and perceive various art works in many different ways.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
