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Course Overview: |
This class will introduce a variety of artistic themes, techniques, media and tools. You are regarded as an artist and you will be encouraged to respond to and with your own ideas and interests.
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Goals
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Studio Habits of
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Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
Engage & Persist: Learning to embrace problems of relevance within the art world and/or of personal importance, to develop focus conducive to working and persevering at tasks. Envision: Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece. Express: Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning. Observe: Learning to attend to visual contexts more closely than ordinary “looking” requires, and thereby to see things that otherwise might not be seen. Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others. Stretch & Explore: Learning to reach beyond one’s capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes. Understand (Arts) Community: Learning to interact as an artist with other artists (i.e., in classrooms, in local arts organizations, and across the art field) and within the broader society. |
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Course Description: |
You will generate and use your own ideas to make original art. We will teach you how to use the artistic process to create art that is authentic and meaningful to you. You will work through a variety of units designed to teach you to think like an artist. You will use technology to research and to share your work. You will learn to work independently by choosing what art supplies to use and to decide what direction to take your artwork.
You will display your artwork for each unit by creating a Weebly page with images of your work and written observations, reflections and artist statements. You will participate in a 2-3 critiques throughout your piece progression; You will be expected to share your work and develop opinions about the work of others. |
Late Work Policy: |
Artwork is due 3 days after the last in-class work day (the weekend counts as 1 day). After the assigned due date late projects are no longer allowed to be worked on in class. Late work CAN BE turned in up to 1 week late. At 1 week late artwork MUST BE TURNED IN. Artwork can be given a zero grade if it is not turned in by the final deadline. A completed Creative Process packet and website must be up to date. Learners will be assigned 5th period remediation if artwork is not turned in on time.
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Assessment: |
15%.....Quizzes/ Tests
35%.....Artist/Student Artwork Grade 50%.....Mentor/Teacher Artwork Grade |
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In order to reassess learners must:
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“Creative thought is a trial-and-error process that generally produces a series of failed associations before a creative solution emerges.”
by Brian Lucas and Loran Nordgren, from the Journal of Personality and Social Creativity, entitled “People Underestimate the Value of Persistence for Creative Performance”.