Discipline: Visual Arts Artistic Processes: Creating, Presenting, Responding, and Connecting Title: Social, Cultural, or Political Issues in Contemporary Art Short Description of Assessment: Students examine and respond to a body of contemporary artworks and compare the themes of the artwork to social, cultural, or political issues in their own lives and in their local and global communities. Students choose a contemporary art making approach, plan an artwork that investigates meaning relevant to a current theme or idea, and document the art making process. After in-progress critique based on relevant criteria, students revise and complete their art work and provide an artist statement. Students curate and present an exhibition to the public.
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals. Essential Question(s): How does knowing the contexts histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work. Enduring Understanding: Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time. Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Enduring Understanding: Artists, curators and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it. Essential Question(s): What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Enduring Understanding: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding. Essential Question(s):What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work Enduring Understanding: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world. Essential Question(s): What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Enduring Understanding: Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences. Essential Question(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art. Essential Question(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Assessment
1.Proficient 2. Accomplished. 3. Advanced
Creating:
Investigate, Plan, and Make
Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporarycultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
Engage in constructive critiquewith peers, then reflect on, re- engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
Reflect on, re- engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional andcontemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
Presenting:
Analyze
Analyze and evaluate the reasons and ways an exhibition is presented.
Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
Investigate, compare, and contrast methods for preserving and protecting art.
Share
Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.
Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork toimpact the viewer’sunderstanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
Responding:
Perceive
Analyze how one’sunderstanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.
Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
Connecting:
Synthesize
Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through art- making.
Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
Relate
Describe how knowledge of culture, traditions, and history may influence personal responses to art.
Compare uses of art in a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts and make connections to uses of art in contemporary and local contexts.
Appraise the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society.