Visual Arts Guide

Examine & Apply the Creative Process Beginning/Introductory Visual Arts Course

VISUAL ARTS 7/8 STANDARDS: ● 7–8.V.CR.1: Apply methods to overcome creative blocks. ● 7–8.V.CR.2: Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or newmedia. ● 7–8.V.CR.6: Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing. ● 7–8.V.CO.1: Individually or collaboratively, create visual documentation of places and times in which people gather to make and experience art or design in the community. ● 7–8.V.CO.2: Make art collaboratively to refect on and reinforce positive aspects of group identity. VISUAL ARTS 1 STANDARDS: ● L1.V.CR.1: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors. ● L1.V.CR.6: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, refect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress. ● L1.V.CO.1: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas. STUDENT EXPECTATIONS: Use multiple approaches to undertake and document the process of developing artistic ideas from early stages to completion. Demonstrate willingness to innovate, take risks, overcome creative blocks, and pursue ideas that emerge in the creative process. Explore and engage in group collaborative art processes.

Learning Intention and Success Criteria Example:

Learning Intention : I am learning to understand and apply the creative, artistic process so I can collaboratively engage in a creative, artistic endeavor with a group of peer-artists.

Success Criteria: I will know I have it when, ● I can identify phases or elements of the creative, artistic process. ● I can apply the phases or elements of the creative, artistic process while creating a piece of art with a group of peer-artists.

Learning Progression Example:

1. Study and explore applicable phases or elements of the creative process such as: brainstorming, experimentation, creation, refning, and refection.