Grading In Art-How does it work?
Prepared Graduates in Visual Arts
1. See oneself as a participant in visual art and design by experiencing, viewing or making.
2. Visually and/or verbally articulate how visual art and design are a means for communication.
3. Practice critical and analytical skills by using academic language to discuss works of art and visual culture.
4. Critique connections between visual art and historic and contemporary philosophies.
5. Interpret works of art and design in the contexts of varied traditions, histories and cultures.
6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of mastery in skills and techniques.
7. Allow imagination, curiosity and wonder to guide inquiry and research.
8. Participate in the reciprocal relationships between visual art and communities.
9. Persist in the creative process and innovate from failure.
10. Develop new knowledge by actively doing and making (artistic praxis), acknowledging relationships between materials, objects, ideas and lived experience.
2020 Visual Art Standards:
1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend: Artists make art from what they see, know and are curious about. As students create new artworks they synthesize interdisciplinary learning, social and cultural norms, personal narratives and the influences of visual culture. This standard includes research activities such as examination of details in the environment, noticing overlooked aspects of one’s surroundings, telling stories before, during and after making art, and using academic and informal learning to form new ideas. It includes viewing and researching the work of artists to broaden perspectives.
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect: Artists think with intention and purpose about what they want to express and evaluate the effectiveness of what they are making during the creative process. The interplay of ideas, materials, and skills makes art challenging and rewarding. This standard recognizes that the intention of the maker and the interpretation of the viewer are both valid as part of the work of art. Learning experiences may include preparatory sketches, personal reflection while working, group critique, inquiry, writing personal philosophies and artist’s statements, and analysis or interpretation of historical and contemporary artwork and ideas.
3. Invent and Discover to Create: Artists learn by making art. They ideate and employ skills to generate works of art for functional, expressive, conceptual, and social/cultural purposes. Making can involve prototyping, building, crafting, inventing, assembling, programming, fashioning and other ways of bringing visual form to ideas.
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer: Artists make new connections to their own environments, cultures, and stories through the process of making art. They integrate learning from various disciplines and philosophies, and formulate questions to study. Learning experiences include exploring creative careers, applying artistic processes to everyday challenges, studying and responding to historical and contemporary art, and applying interdisciplinary content.
How Does Mrs. Bell Grade my student in art?
***With each 1st through 5th Grade class, we complete a rubric with every project where student self-reflect on the following catagories: Craftsmanship, Creativity, Following Directions, Work Habits, Project Goals, and Clean up. Our rubric looks like this:
