Course Overview: |
This class will cover a variety of methods and materials, and accompanying techniques. 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 as an ARTIST: |
Learn how to use the artistic process to create original art.
Develop skills with a variety of art materials and processes. Develop your critique skills and record in a journal or on a blog/ website. Understand self assessment will aid in your artistic learning |
Studio
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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. |
Studio Environment: |
The student is the artist.
Artists complete deliberate practice to learn or improve in media. Artists control the subject matter, material choices and approach. Artists complete the creative process to create art. Artists are self motivated. Experimentation, Play and Failure are honored and encouraged to show growth. |
Course Description: |
You will generate and use your own ideas to make original art. You will use the artistic process to create art that is authentic and meaningful to you. You will focus on expanding your media exploration, as well as technical and analytical skills to create artwork that defines their personal identity in a visual medium. You will explore the Postmodern Principles. You will use technology to research and to share your work. You will learn to work independently by choosing what mediums to use and to decide what direction to take your artwork. You, as an artist, may be responsible for purchasing supplies to complete 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. 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: |
35%.....Artist/Student Artwork Grade
65%.....Mentor/Teacher Artwork Grade |
Email Addresses: |
“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”.