Student Assessment Task Prompts: High School Advanced
Responding
Performance Standard: VA:Re9.1.lla: Construct Evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based upon differing sets of criteria.
Key Traits:
- Identify and apply different sets of criteria to determine how artists have addressed concepts, themes or ideas in their work.
- Document and analyze viewers’ responses to exhibition and determine the effect of the exhibit on viewers’ understandings.
Perceive/Analyze/Interpret
- How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art?
- Who and why might criteria vary?
- How does public art influence our views of the world?
- How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
Presenting
Performance Standard VA:Pr4.1.lla: Critique, justify and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating and presenting works of art for a specific exhibit or event.
Key Trait: Present and justify choices made in the process of selecting, analyzing, curating and exhibiting works of art for a theme-based exhibition.
Select/Analyze
- How are local public artworks 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.a.lla: Investigate, compare and contrast methods for preserving and protecting art.
Key Trait: Analyze, select and justify methods needed to present artwork for exhibition.
Develop/Refine
- What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation and preservation?
- How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer?
- What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
Performance Standard VA:Pr6.1.lla: Curate a collection of objects, artifacts and artworks to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural and/or political experiences.
Key Traits:
- Select, prepare and exhibit a collection of art or design works with a focus on impacting the viewers’ understandings of a social, cultural, and/or political concept, theme or idea
- Prepare exhibition narrative to aid viewers in understanding the exhibition.
Exhibit/Share
- What is a public artwork exhibit?
- What is an art museum?
- What is an art gallery?
- How does the presentation and sharing of object, artifacts and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs and experiences?
- How do objects, artifact and artworks collected, preserved or presented cultivate appreciation and understanding of community experience?
Creating
Performance Standard VA:Cr1.lla Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
Key Traits:
- Identify approaches by which artists or designers investigate social, cultural and/or political themes.
- Based on knowledge gained from the exhibition experience and viewer feedback, determine ideas and directions for creating a work of art or design.
Experiment/Imagine/Identify
- What conditions, attitudes and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking?
- What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?
- How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Performance Standard VA:Cr1.2.lla: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan making works of art and design based upon a theme, idea or concept.
Key Traits: Choose materials, methods and approaches, following or breaking established conventions to support the focus of the planned artistic investigation.
Experiment/Imagine/Identify
- 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:Cr2.1.lla: Experiment, plan and make works of art and design that explore personally meaningful themes, ideas or concepts.
Key Trait: Make a work of art or design that demonstrates developing and expanding upon chosen concept, theme or idea.
Investigate/Plan/Make
- How do artists work?
- How do designers determine whether a particular direction in the work is effective?
- How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Performance Standard VA:Cr2.2.lla: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
Key Trait: Explain reasons for making, choosing and arranging works, speculate on the effects of art on various groups of people and analyze ethical responsibilities of artists and exhibitors.
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?
Performance Standard VA:Cr3.1.lla: Reflect on, re-engage, revise and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision and relevant traditional and contemporary criteria.
Key Trait: Share insights, respond to and/or make revisions to in-progress art to further creative intent.
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?
Performance Standard VA:Cn10.1.lla: Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
Key Traits:
- Make art based upon knowledge gained regarding a chosen social, cultural and/or political concept, theme or idea observed in local public art
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?
Performance Standard VA:Cn11.1.lla: Appraise the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values and behaviors of a society.
Key Traits:
- Identify and analyze the effectiveness of artworks, collections or exhibitions in shaping viewers’ ideas about a social, cultural and/or political concept, theme or idea.
- Use the analysis of feedback from the viewers to plan a new artwork.
Synthesize/Present
- How does public art help us understand the lives of peoples of different times, places and cultures?
- How is public art used to impact the views of a society?
- How does public art preserve aspects of life?
- Does the viewer’s response/interaction with public works of art influence the way you view the art? Why?
- Have you found that your interaction with a public work of art has influenced the interaction of other visitors who share the same space? Explain.
- How has your analysis of public art shaped your own artistic vision?
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