SYLLABUS

Guidelines for class/studio conduct

  • Students must be seated at bell if not assisting in a set-up or clean-up activity.
  • Cell phones are powered off and put away.
  • No cell phones will be visible without teacher permission.
  • No Outside Food. During holidays or special occasions food may be permitted only in class and only with teacher permission. (i.e. class reward, holiday or testing)
  • Bottled water or clear closed containers in limited amounts and must not disturb classroom instruction or peer participation.
  • STUDIO/Classroom neatness. Clean Your Work Area Every Day before you leave.
  • Work Ethic and Craftsmanship are graded as participation in your Art Project Rubric
  • Be courteous, Be kind or Be polite. Your informal criticism of peers and classmates work is limited to call and response OOOOO, AAAHHH and WOW.
  • Teacher provides constructive criticism on your daily progress to help motivate, improve skill or correct errors.

Practices and Habits of Mind

Studio Art course and portfolio assessment focuses on students developing these practices and habits of mind through work with 2-dimensional design, including the following:

  • Critical analysis
  • Evidence-based decision-making
  • Innovative thinking
  • Articulation of design elements and principles
  • Systematic investigation of formal and conceptual aspects of art making
  • Technical competence with materials and processes to communicate ideas
  • Incorporation of expressive qualities in art making
  • Demonstration of artistic intention
  • Creation of a body of work unified by a visual or conceptual theme


Proposed Agenda

Semester One and Two

  • Aug - Principles of Designs and Elements of Arts, Artistic Tools and Shading Techniques
  • Sep - Rubrics, Art Critique, Sketching Techniques
  • Oct - Pastels, Watercolor, Still Life
  • Nov - Acrylic Painting Techniques
  • Dec - DEOC, Portrait Features

Advance continues agenda below

  • Jan -Black History [ Medium TBD ]
  • Feb - Portraits Techniques [ Medium TBD ]
  • Mar - Fantasy / Gaming Intro [ Medium TBD ]
  • April - Calligraphy, Hand-lettering [ Medium TBD ]
  • May - DEOC, Final Project , [ Pastels- Oil, Chalk; Watercolor Pencils ]

Steps for Self-correction and Redirection:

  1. Verbal and non-verbal call and response cues will be given to help redirect off task behavior.
  2. Student will be reminded of correct participation conduct directly and studio/class guidelines reiterated.
  3. Teacher/student conference briefly conducted with phone call or email to parents or guardian as needed.
  4. Lunch detention, limited participation in current project or alternate project assignment
  5. Student may be allowed time to reflect on behavior with the dean/counselor or teacher as the situation determines.
  6. Referral to the dean

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE PORTFOLIO

Art Portfolio Requirements for Students

An art portfolio is a small, representative collection of an artist's current or recent work. The art portfolio plays an important role in the art school admission review process by identifying the skills, abilities, and potential of the student.

Student portfolios intended for art school admission review are quite different from portfolios of working artists. Working artists' portfolios are highly focused toward the type of job or client being sought, and they generally contain only highly polished works, in order to show a high level of artistic achievement.

Prospective students' portfolios, however, are intended to show the potential of the artist. To this effect, a wider selection of mediums and techniques may be required, as well as works showing the creative process of the artist (i.e. sketches, life drawings, etc.).

An art portfolio has two sets of requirements: content requirements and technical requirements. The content requirements deal with the type of artwork included, while the technical requirements apply to the physical aspects of the artwork.


EXPECTATIONS:

  1. Have your pencil, eraser, and sketchbook everyday.
  2. Come prepared to participate and create in class everyday.
  3. Be respectful (to adults, to other students, and to everyone's property)
  4. Be responsible (bring your work, do your work, hand in your work, etc).
  5. Be ready to begin--at the beginning of class.
  6. Pay attention, participate daily and use your time appropriately.
  7. Have a good attitude.

WHY A SKETCHBOOK

An artist’s sketchbook is a bound book with blank pages that artists use to keep visual records of observations, plans for future art projects, ideas and themes with which they are interested, and verbal, often personal, reflections. Artists may incorporate some or all of these uses into their personal sketchbooks in order to best suit their needs as an artist.

“In fact, educators need to do at least three things if they wish to support creativity in their students (Runco 1991b): 1) Provide opportunities for children to practice creative thinking. 2) Value and appreciate those efforts. 3) Model creative behaviors themselves.” (Runco, 2007, p. 179)"