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 balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.

• 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 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.

• 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?

• Artist use their artwork to advocate for change

• Visual imagery can be an impactful way to communicate an idea

• Art empowers people to see things in new ways

• That artists consider various techniques, methods and venues when creating art for presentation.

• That social responsibility that comes with creating public art

• Create an artwork that impactfully converys an idea.

• Use contrast, emphasis, and proportion to create meaning

• Create work that expresses an opinion respectfully and responsibility.

• Investigate current events, locally and globally

• Create an artwork that reflects an opinion

• Rubrics

• Critiques

• Thumbnails

• Checklists

• Formative assessments