Overview: |
Student artists will accept the challenge to create a concentrated body of work centered on a theme.
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Artist
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Develop Craft: Learn to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
Engage & Persist: Learn 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: Learn to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece. Express: Learn to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning. Observe: Learn to attend to visual contexts more closely than ordinary “looking” requires, and thereby to see things that otherwise might not be seen. Reflect: Learn 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: Learn 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: Learn 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: |
The student is the artist.
Artists are self motivated. Artists control the subject matter, theme, material choices and approach. Artists complete the design/ creative process to create art. Experimentation, Play and Failure are honored and encouraged to show growth. |
Course Description: |
Content and Context - The creation of the artistic pieces will demonstrate a personal voice in the series. The artist solidifies the content and the context in which they want their artwork to be placed in the world.
You will generate and use your own ideas to make a series of original art. Using the artistic process will help you to create art that is authentic and meaningful to you. You will 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 piece on your Weebly page with images of your work and written observations, reflections and artist statements. You will participate in weekly critiques throughout your progression of your series; You will be expected to share your work and develop opinions about the work of others using constructive criticism. |
Gallery Exhibition: |
Each artist will show their body of work in the gallery exhibition for their final exam. The date is determined by the end of the semester calendar and gallery availability. Failure to exhibit their completed series or Failure to be present for the final presentation, will result in a failure of the course.
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Assessment: |
40%.....Artist
60%.....Art Educator |
Contact: |
“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”.