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Enduring Understanding:
Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative art-making goals.
Essential Questions:
What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking?
What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?
How does collaboration expand the creative process?
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?
CREATING
Creating Conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work.
Experiment • Imagine • Identify • Investigate • Plan • Make
No Evidence
Does not choose nor use a contemporary art making approach to begin creating a work of art.
Does not explain how traditional and nontraditional materials may impact human health and the environment and does not safely and skillfully use materials, tools, and equipment.
Does not develop a work of art that communicates a current theme or idea which doesn't follow the criteria.
In the process of generating ideas for art making, does not consider ideas about content, style, and technique used in artworks investigated along with ideas about places that have personal significance.
Needs Development
Chooses, but is unable to effectively use a contemporary art making approach to begin creating a work of art based on the criteria.
Either develops a work of art that communicates a current theme or idea, or uses a contemporary art-making approach.
Demonstrates safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment, but does not explain how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment.
Chooses from a limited range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices and follows or breaks established conventions (ways) when planning a work of art.
Approaches Expectations
Revises artwork but does not apply relevant criteria.
Demonstrates safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment, but does not explain how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment.
Either develops a work of art that communicates a current theme or idea, or uses a contemporary art-making approach.
Chooses, but is unable to effectively use a contemporary art making approach to begin creating a work of art.
Meets Expectations
Develops a work of art that communicates a current theme or idea using a contemporary art-making approach.
Explains how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment and safely and skillfully uses materials, tools, and equipment.
Plans and makes a work of art or design that explores a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Reflects on and shares insights about works of art or design in progress; plans and makes revisions in response to traditional and contemporary criteria aligned with personal artistic vision.
Meets Expectations Exemplar
Demonstrates an exceptional willingness to experiment, innovate and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of making a work of art.
Chooses from a wide range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, and follows or breaks established conventions (ways) while developing a plan for creating a work of art or design.
Plans and makes an exceptional work of art or design that thoroughly explores a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Reflects on and shares insights about works of art or design in progress; provides supporting rationale for insights; plans and makes revisions in response to traditional and contemporary criteria aligned with personal artistic vision.
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