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clear Content Area: // Grade Level: High School // Standard Category: 3. Invent and Discover to Create
Visual Arts - 2019
High School, Standard 3. Invent and Discover to Create
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Prepared Graduates:
- 6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of mastery in skills and techniques.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Establish a practice of planning and experimentation to advance concepts and technical skills.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Research and generate possible concepts that can be used to build deeper meaning in preparation for making.
- Research and consider various iterations of an idea and draft possible solutions using a variety of media.
- Practice techniques and improve skills by testing media to consider constraints and potential of materials.
- Create works of art representing personal narratives that use traditional and contemporary media.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Develop, plan and organize visual art and design ideas. (Personal skills: Personal Responsibility)
- Students can generate questions to guide their artmaking as a practice of research, gather information from various sources, determine biases and credibility of sources, cite sources as appropriate and use evidence to advance concepts and technical skills. (Entrepreneurial Skills)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can students demonstrate their thinking as they progress through the artistic process?
- How can students build upon ideas, skills and knowledge?
- How can students explain how they will represent a personal narrative?
- How can students explore and experiment with new materials and media?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- Artists and designers use artistic vision.
- Artists and designers apply techniques and concepts.
- Artmaking involves exploration and discovery.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of mastery in skills and techniques.
- 7. Allow imagination, curiosity and wonder to guide inquiry and research.
- 9. Persist in the creative process and innovate from failure.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Ideate and build works of art and design to demonstrate growth and proficiency in traditional and new art media.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Examine and evolve potential meanings of an artwork.
- Master skills in a variety of media and techniques to create personally meaningful works of art.
- Interpret how meaning in works of art is related to the materials and process chosen by the artist.
- Resolve artmaking problems by persisting through failure and making revisions.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to visual art and design. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Informed Risk Taking)
- Students can integrate multimedia as effective tools for clarifying and presenting information. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills; Professional Skills)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can students demonstrate the ideation process?
- How can students learn from mistakes to improve upon current conceptual and technical skills?
- How can students build a collection of work that represents their skills and personal philosophy of art?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- Artists use project-based questioning.
- Artists develop and refine work for presentation or display.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. See oneself as a participant in visual art and design by experiencing, viewing or making.
- 2. Visually and/or verbally articulate how visual art and design are a means for communication.
- 6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of mastery in skills and techniques.
- 7. Allow imagination, curiosity and wonder to guide inquiry and research.
- 9. Persist in the creative process and innovate from failure.
Grade Level Expectation:
3. Articulate and demonstrate that the making and study of art and design can be approached from a variety of perspectives.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify how interpretation can be an essential part of the artmaking process to evaluate progress.
- Receive and reflect upon feedback and integrate into artwork as needed.
- Use knowledge and developed skills to inform future works of visual art and design.
- Persevere through the progression of a work to explore and encourage alternative solutions.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Articulate a variety of thoughts, ideas and contexts in visual art and design. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Communication)
- Effectively use verbal, written and/or nonverbal communication skills in the making and study of art and design. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Communication)
- Students can delineate an artist's argument, identify specific claims and distinguish if claims are supported by reasons and evidence. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills)
Inquiry Questions:
- How do students use reflective strategies to understand the creative process?
- How do students draw from and explain the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender and class perspectives within works of art and design?
- How do students persevere through challenges and the iterative process to complete an idea?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- Artists and designers create real-world and personal relevance.
- Artists and designers reflect on finished products.
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