Art 4 Major
Course 7425/7424 Art 4 Major/Minor Level 5/4
This course promotes extensive independent work based on individual abilities, ideas, and interests for the completion of the Senior Portfolio and the production of an original ar tbook and the Senior Installation. Students should be able to demonstrate the ability to develop clear intellectual and emotional reasons for creating artworks from a personal point of view. The portfolio and installation are the culmination of the student’s creative efforts to apply all of his or her drawing, compositional, technical, and aesthetic skills. The results of these efforts will provide a personal record of the student’s creative potential for pursuing an art career or developing lifelong interests in the visual arts.
Periods per cycle: 4/2 Credit: 5/2.5 Prerequisite: Three years of art or approval of the Program Administrator.
Primary responsibility for the following academic expectations:
Active Learners:
1a: Students will understand and use what they learn
1c. Students will engage in inquiry and self-directed learning
1d: Students will use feedback and self-reflection to extend learning
Resourceful Thinkers:
2a: Students will employ creative thinking skills 2d: Students will make meaningful connections
Effective Communicators:
3b: Students will express knowledge and skill creatively using a variety of media, technology and the arts
3c: Students will engage effectively in discussion
1. Learning Objectives
The student who successfully completes this course will have learned:
a. how to use their chosen medium in a variety of ways
b. various ways to present an idea or concept
c. ways to decide what mediums, genres, styles, and forms are best suited to express a variety of
emotional and intellectual content
d. how to experiment, brainstorm, and produce thumbnails for potential projects
e. how to plan and carry out long-term projects effectively
2. Learning Experiences
In this course, students will:
a. plan and execute major projects or series of smaller related works
b. communicate plans and ideas to their instructor by means of both sketches and written proposals
c. modify plans as necessary to accommodate technical limitations or the evolution of ideas and motivations
d. participate in critiques with a degree of sensitivity to their own and others' intentions and artistic development, and with an awareness of a range of past and contemporary art work relevant to the work being examined
e. keep a journal/sketchbook of work
f. design and construct an installation/presentation of their work for the annual K-12 Art Festival.
3. Course Outline
Students will produce at least one major work or series of related smaller works per quarter. Individual critiques will be on-going but very brief; more extensive critiques will occur 1-2 times per quarter, and, logistics permitting, Art Explorations students will participate in one significant group critique each quarter.
REQUIRED:
- Students will submit a typed proposal (email or google doc) and sketch for each quarter's work at the beginning of that quarter, describing the project and the materials that will be used that term.
- They will also write a brief reflection on their work at the close of each quarter (even if the project is not completed). If the same project will be continued into the next term, they will include that in the proposal for the next term.
Homework - 1 hour of homework is due at the end of every week. This can be research, sketchbook drawing, or working on the term's project.
This course promotes extensive independent work based on individual abilities, ideas, and interests for the completion of the Senior Portfolio and the production of an original ar tbook and the Senior Installation. Students should be able to demonstrate the ability to develop clear intellectual and emotional reasons for creating artworks from a personal point of view. The portfolio and installation are the culmination of the student’s creative efforts to apply all of his or her drawing, compositional, technical, and aesthetic skills. The results of these efforts will provide a personal record of the student’s creative potential for pursuing an art career or developing lifelong interests in the visual arts.
Periods per cycle: 4/2 Credit: 5/2.5 Prerequisite: Three years of art or approval of the Program Administrator.
Primary responsibility for the following academic expectations:
Active Learners:
1a: Students will understand and use what they learn
1c. Students will engage in inquiry and self-directed learning
1d: Students will use feedback and self-reflection to extend learning
Resourceful Thinkers:
2a: Students will employ creative thinking skills 2d: Students will make meaningful connections
Effective Communicators:
3b: Students will express knowledge and skill creatively using a variety of media, technology and the arts
3c: Students will engage effectively in discussion
1. Learning Objectives
The student who successfully completes this course will have learned:
a. how to use their chosen medium in a variety of ways
b. various ways to present an idea or concept
c. ways to decide what mediums, genres, styles, and forms are best suited to express a variety of
emotional and intellectual content
d. how to experiment, brainstorm, and produce thumbnails for potential projects
e. how to plan and carry out long-term projects effectively
2. Learning Experiences
In this course, students will:
a. plan and execute major projects or series of smaller related works
b. communicate plans and ideas to their instructor by means of both sketches and written proposals
c. modify plans as necessary to accommodate technical limitations or the evolution of ideas and motivations
d. participate in critiques with a degree of sensitivity to their own and others' intentions and artistic development, and with an awareness of a range of past and contemporary art work relevant to the work being examined
e. keep a journal/sketchbook of work
f. design and construct an installation/presentation of their work for the annual K-12 Art Festival.
3. Course Outline
Students will produce at least one major work or series of related smaller works per quarter. Individual critiques will be on-going but very brief; more extensive critiques will occur 1-2 times per quarter, and, logistics permitting, Art Explorations students will participate in one significant group critique each quarter.
REQUIRED:
- Students will submit a typed proposal (email or google doc) and sketch for each quarter's work at the beginning of that quarter, describing the project and the materials that will be used that term.
- They will also write a brief reflection on their work at the close of each quarter (even if the project is not completed). If the same project will be continued into the next term, they will include that in the proposal for the next term.
Homework - 1 hour of homework is due at the end of every week. This can be research, sketchbook drawing, or working on the term's project.