The course is designed to expand students' knowledge, skill development, and independent thinking in both two-and three-dimensional media. This advanced course affords students the opportunity to develop a portfolio that reflects personal investigation of an idea or theme. The course is planned so that students can develop artwork that exhibits quality, thematic development, breadth of experience, technical skill, and development of ideas over time. The standards and objectives are organized into five specific content strands: Creative Process; Critical Thinking and Communication; History, Culture, and Citizenship; Innovation in the Arts; and Technique and Application. Art production will focus on developing more advanced applications of ideas, materials, and techniques. Upon completion of this course, each student will create a portfolio that illustrates development of conceptual ideas and design fundamentals that may be carried forward to the next level of study and that can be used as a foundation for the development of the Advanced Placement Studio portfolio. Students develop visual literacy and appreciation for art through written, visual, and verbal expression. Students will also explore career options, public art, and copyright fundamentals in the field of art and are expected to participate in various art shows.
Art I: Foundations, and Art II: 2D Approaches and/or Art II: 3D Approaches
Essential Questions: What Are the Big Issues About Art? How and Why Do We Make Art? How Does Art Relate to History and Culture? How Do We Respond to Works of Art? How Do We Use New Media to Create Works of Art?
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Artist’s as Technology Creators |
Cultural Identity |
Diverse Perspectives and Digital Citizenship |
Innovation and Connection |
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Focus of the Story |
We begin by starting our journey by discussing how people make art and use digital tools. We look to this as a foundation of the purpose of our journey in the art classroom developing ourselves as artists in the technology field. We use the creative process to start to utilize these tools to experiment with various new media forms. |
Once we understand the beginning steps, we can start to shift our focus on how art reflects our personal and shared identities through use of new media. We can look at our relationships with our community and cultural backgrounds to build the foundation on the importance of technology based art and its history. |
Now, we can move into understanding and developing an appreciation of the diverse values of others. Receiving and articulating ideas based on personal perspective and interpretation of ideas. We can look at the development of such new media tools to guide us to build our foundation of knowledge and share our learning with our community. |
Finally, we can explore how art allows us to transform our ideas and approaches and be innovative with our ideas. Allowing ourselves to take creative healthy risks through application of design. We can reflect on our background and share our stories with others to build upon ideas and grow as an art community. We can reflect on the use of technology arts to prepare us for career ready opportunities. |
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Transfer Goals |
The Creative Process Apply creative process through inquiry, investigation, generating ideas, testing solutions, refining, and reflecting on process and product while developing a personalized portfolio exhibiting original voice and vision as an artist. Techniques & Application Able to transfer and apply knowledge of artistic skills and techniques when developing ideas for creative expression through a variety of media. |
Critical Thinking & Communication Understands and develops an appreciation that art can have diverse values, meanings, and definitions while recognizing multiple responses and perspectives. Effective at receiving and articulating ideas using appropriate vocabulary and communication when responding to works of art. Able to work independently and collaboratively. History/Culture/Citizenship: Explore and understand historical influences of art through the work of self and others while cultivating an awareness that art is a reflection of time, place and culture. Students identify and interact with art as a community member and citizen, developing a lifelong engagement with art as a supporter, advocate, creator, and informed viewer. |
Critical Thinking & Communication Understands and develops an appreciation that art can have diverse values, meanings, and definitions while recognizing multiple responses and perspectives. Effective at receiving and articulating ideas using appropriate vocabulary and communication when responding to works of art. Able to work independently and collaboratively. History/Culture/Citizenship: Explore and understand historical influences of art through the work of self and others while cultivating an awareness that art is a reflection of time, place and culture. Students identify and interact with art as a community member and citizen, developing a lifelong engagement with art as a supporter, advocate, creator, and informed viewer. |
Techniques & Application Able to transfer and apply knowledge of artistic skills and techniques when developing ideas for creative expression through a variety of media. Innovation in the Arts Understands and applies the artistic process, problem-solving skills, current and emerging technologies while making connections to visual arts careers. |
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Learning Targets |
As an artist, I can: Develop essential questions to guide a sustained digital investigation which includes a synthesis of ideas, materials, and processes over time. Use the creative process to develop and inform an original artistic vision/voice Maintain a digital art portfolio that demonstrates inquiry, research, fluency of ideas, flexibility of thought, connections, concepts, media exploration, and processes Present and exhibit works of art as part of the artistic process, including selecting and preparing works and writing supporting documentation and reflective statements. Demonstrate technical skill and independent thinking in the use of digital media, techniques,and processes to achieve desired intentions in works of art and design. |
As an artist, I can: Evaluate the effectiveness of the communication of artistic vision/voice in personal works of art, Analyze art exhibitions in written reflections and describe how the purpose of art shifts over time and explain the functions and purposes of personal works of art Use a variety of critique processes to reflect on and inform personal artistic vision/voice. Explain how themes throughout the history of art have been influenced by traditions, norms, values, beliefs, and events Compare and analyze art styles within cultural contexts and research and analyze diverse artists, art styles, and cultures that inspire personal works of art, Analyze the ways that technology and innovation have impacted the evolution ofart and design. |
As n artist I can: Understand how artworks have been influenced by traditions, norms, practices, values, beliefs, and events, Explain how art can have different values and meaning for the viewer and the artist. Describe opportunities for digital arts engagement, leadership, and advocacy within the community. Practice ethics in all aspects of digital art making and designing to include the documentation and justification of original ideas. |
As an artist, I can: Investigate and describe applications of digital arts skills in a variety of workplace, college, and career pursuits. expand on how contemporary innovative digital media, tools, and processes are used to Expand their use of new technology media, tools, and techniques for the production of art Use new technology in the development or documentation of art works, Explain how the use of technology in art has changed over time. Refine personal stylistic digital art choices for subject matter during the creation of artwork. |
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