Student Assessment Task Prompts: High School Proficient

Responding

Performance Standard: VA:Re7.1.la: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences

Key Traits: Explain and give examples illustrating how art and other visual imagery shapes understanding

Perceive

• What is the content of the contemporary public work of art?
• What stylistic characteristics did the contemporary artist use?
• What techniques did the contemporary artist use? 

Analyze

• How does the contemporary public artwork relate to a specific group’s identity?
• How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art?
• How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world?
• What can we learn from our responses to art? 

Identify

• Why was the piece originally installed?
• Who originally commissioned the public work of art?
• Who was the artist’s intended audience?
• Who currently maintains the piece?
• How do viewers interact with public art and the space in which it is displayed?
• What activities do the viewers engage in in the space surrounding the piece?

Performance Standard: VA:Re8.1.la: Interpret an artwork or a collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.

Key Traits: Compare, analyze, interpret, and evaluate interpretations of contemporary artworks with supporting evidence that explores social, cultural or political themes in contemporary life.

Interpret

• What may have been the contemporary artist’s intention when creating the piece?
• Does the contemporary work of art help us understand about different places, times and cultures? How?
• How do viewers interpret contemporary public artwork and the space in which it is displayed?
• How do contemporary artists convey a social, cultural or political issue in their art?
• Identify and explain the different ways public art is used to represent, establish, reinforce and reflect our local and global communities.
• What criteria are used to evaluate contemporary public artworks?
• What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism?
• How can the viewer “read” a work of public art?
• How does knowing and using visual art vocabularies help us understand and interpret contemporary works of public art?

Performance Standard: VA:Re9.1.la: Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

Key Trait: Identify significant meaning making aspects of artwork and develop relevant criteria for success.

Apply

• How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art?
• How and why might criteria vary?
• How is personal preference different from an evaluation

Connecting

Performance Standard: VA:Cn10.1.la: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.

Key Traits: Document process of developing initial idea to completed work by explaining choice of subject matter and art making approach.

Synthesize/Relate

• How does engaging in creating art enrich people’s lives?
• How does making art attune people to their surroundings?
• How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art making? 

Creating

Performance Standard: VA:Cr1.1.la: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.

Key Traits:

• Identify and analyze multiple approaches to making art—including spontaneous and planned approaches.
• Begin process of making by experimenting and trying new ways of working.
• Identify social, cultural, or political issues in their own lives and in their local and global communities.
• Differentiate between traditional and contemporary, experimental approaches to making art and design.
• Identify and interpret the work of contemporary artists or designers who use non-traditional media and methods or new approaches to traditional media and methods.

 Experiment/Imagine/Identify

• What are the early stages of my creative process as I generate ideas for my art-making?
• What contemporary art-making practices do I use while experimenting, planning and making my art?
• What conditions, attitudes and behaviors support creative and innovative thinking?
• How have I experimented and taken risks with ideas and forms throughout my art-making process?
• What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?
• How does collaboration expand the creative process?
• How does knowing the contexts, histories and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design?
• Why do artists follow or break from established traditions?
• How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations? 

Performance Standard: VA:Cr2.2.la: Explain how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.

Key Traits:

• Research and correlate information and explain health and safety issues related to traditional and non-traditional (contemporary, experimental) materials.
• Safely and skillfully uses materials, tools and equipment.
• Identify significant meaning making attributes and relevant criteria of quality for chosen contemporary artistic practice.
• Experience, interpret, apply criteria, and share insights about in-progress work of other students.
• Understand and reflect on ideas and insights of others about personal work.
• Plan and make revisions to in-progress art.

 Investigate/Plan/Make

• How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools and equipment?
• Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools and equipment?
• What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?

Reflect/Refine/Continue

• What role does persistence, play in revising, refining and developing work?
• How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms?
• How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more fully and develop it more completely?

Presenting

Performance Standard: VA:Pr4.1.la: Analyze, select and curate artifacts and or artworks for presentation and preservation

Key Traits:

• Analyze completed art works in preparation for presentation
• Select and prepare artworks for presentation

 Select/Analyze

• How are art works cared for and by whom?
• What criteria, methods and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation?
• Why do people value objects, artifacts and artworks and select them for presentation?

Performance Standard: VA:Pr5.1.la: Analyze and evaluate the reasons and ways an exhibition was presented.

Key Traits: Evaluate the efficacy of the plan, venue, and/or location for displaying their works of art.

Develop/Refine

• What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation and preservation?
• How does refining artwork affect its meaning by the viewer?
• What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?

Connecting: Create an Artist Statement

Relate/Synthesize  

• How does my work of art, its subject matter, formal composition and my choice of media reflect upon social, cultural or political issues important to my local and global communities?
• How does my work of art represent, establish, reinforce and reflect social, cultural or political issues important to my local and global communities? 

Presenting: Collaboratively prepare and present artworks that represent establish, reinforce and reflect social, cultural or political issues important to my local and global communities for display both digitally and physically.