Create:

• 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.
• People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
• Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.

Present:

• 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.
• 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.

Respond:

• Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
• Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
• People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
• People evaluate art based on various criteria.

Connecting:

• Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
• People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.

Create:

What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?

How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?

What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?

How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?

What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work?

Presenting:

Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?

Responding:

How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art?

Connecting:

How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives?

• Students will recognize symbolism in art.
• How diverse artists use Identity as a theme in their artwork
• Artist use their own experiences to shape their artwork
• Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed in a supportive and empathetic community.

• Students will be able to develop an understanding of themselves and the world around them by creating visual imagery.
• Students will take risks by trying new materials, persevering through mistakes and revising as needed.
• Create artwork based on their own life experiences using symbolism
• Students will be able to reflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly.

• Students will create an artwork that reflects a part of their identity.
• Students will formulate meaning in their artwork through the use of symbolism.
• Students will Investigate other artists who explore the theme of identity in their art.

• Sketchbook plans
• Exit slips
• Project rubrics
• Formative assessments
• In-progress critiques
• Final critiques