Knowledge, Skills and Vocabulary: Eighth Grade
Key Vocabulary
art constructive critique materials
artist statement criteria media
art making approaches creativity style
artistic practice conceptual vocabulary texture
brainstorm display portfolio
context formal vocabulary subject matter
contemporary artistic practice image 3-dimentional
2-dimentional innovative thinking 4-dimentional
critique interpret
Knowledge and Skills
Students will:
- Performance Standard One: Students collaboratively examine and respond to a body of contemporary public artworks in order to make interpretations of meaning conveyed through such works and analyze viewer’s interaction with and reaction to community public art.
- Observe, analyze, respond to and interpret a body of contemporary community public artworks in neighborhood places.
- Explain how contemporary artwork helps us understand the lives of people in different places, times and cultures.
- Investigate contemporary artistic practices.
- Performance Standard Two: Students use knowledge gained to experiment, plan, and make their own artworks to express meaning relevant to a theme or idea important to them as a group while demonstrating quality craftsmanship and experimentation with appropriate materials, tools, and equipment.
- Discuss themes and generate ideas for individual artworks that reflect on and reinforce a collaboratively chosen theme or idea.
- Explore and experiment with materials and tools.
- Performance Standard Three: Students will write an artist statement to accompany their work and prepare both to display.
- Use art vocabulary to create an artist statement that explains the choices made to visually communicate their artistic decisions.
- Performance Standard Four: Students collaboratively exhibit their work and develop an exhibition narrative to guide digital and physical viewers.
- Provide reasons for grouping artworks.
- Prepare artworks for physical and digital display
- Guide digital and physical viewers in understanding how the artworks address the theme or idea.
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