This course is designed to give you the skills and knowledge necessary to design with the fourteen elements and principles of art in mind. You will also be exposed to a wide variety of artists, career skills in design/art fields, aesthetics, and a whole bunch of other technical skills. Every art student has to take and pass Design 1 & 2 before they take Painting, Drawing & Illustration, Computer/Video, Ceramics, Jewelry, Sculpture, or AP Art.
This is a list of projects and their scheduled due dates. Schedules are subject to change depending on snow days, availability of supplies, and the available time for the course. There are more projects scheduled then there is time to complete them to allow for flexibility with students. For each project group there is a set of projects or one project. The student must pick one of the projects if there is a choice, if there is not a choice then they must do the only project available. If they do not like any of the projects offered they can write their own project proposal and complete a project within the time allowed for the project group. If the student does not finish within the time limit then they must finish it before moving on. Any time spent on the last project takes up time allowed for next project. Some projects take less time than what is allowed, and others may take longer than a student anticipates. A student can get behind if they don’t manage time well and work every day. The teacher and student will gauge what is an acceptable work pace, with the teacher setting the pace based on observation.
What follows is a Google Drive folder full of the presentations I will give for each project throughout the year. These presentations contain the rubric for each assignment. Keep in mind these presentations are not updated via Google Drive so they are often not the definitive versions. (I usually use Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite to make my files which are then uploaded to the Drive, so what you see here is what I start the year with.) Always check in with the official posted set of rubrics in class for each assignment.