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.
• Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
• Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
• Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.

Present:

• Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
• 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.

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?

Why is it important to innovate?

How do you come up with something new?

How do you define innovation? Something different that has impact.

What are different types of innovation?

How do I spot opportunities for innovation?

What would you invent?

How can you combine skills and techniques to create something new?

• The Design Process and 8 Studio Habits of Mind
  • Observe
  • Develop Craft
  • Stretch and Explore
  • Engage and Persist
  • Understand the Art World
  • Reflect
  • Express
  • Envision
• That art can be functional
• That mistakes can be a vehicle for innovation
• That collaboration is an important tool for creativity and innovation

• Reflect on and revise art works
• Combine different objects or ideas to make something new
• Engage in constructive critiques
• Discuss peer art to give feedback and ideas

• Construct a functional item using a combination of different ideas, objects or elements

• Sketchbooks
• Thumbnails
• Assessments
• Peer Critiques