Course Syllabus

Understand
(Big Ideas)

• The Arts develop innovative thinking and problem-solving skills by encouraging a diversity of solutions.
• Creative expression builds community and nurtures relationships.
• Art provides opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of differing time periods.
• Art is essential to human and cultural experience.
• The Arts develop innovative thinking and problem-solving skills by encouraging a diversity of solutions.
• Refining artistic expression requires perseverance, resilience, and risk taking.
• Purposeful artistic choices enhance the depth and passion of the message.

Do

(Competencies)

• Develop a broader vocabulary, and technical skillset
• Gain understandings of Artist’s processes and motivations.
• Investigate and identify ways that visual arts reflect concern for, or respond to, social and environmental issues
• Connect the artistic self-expression of many artists from differing ages and disciplines. This will be achieved by examining the relevance of these works in relation to the vantage point of each boy.
• Use the Arts to communicate and respond to social and historical change.
• Locally, regionally, and globally Connect the artistic self-expression of First People’s artists
• Create a number of personal pieces of work that grow from research and informed creative processes.
• Create personally meaningful artistic works that demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal and social contexts
• Refine and reflect on ideas, imagery and designs.
• Core competencies.
• Working within an Art studio demands that students demonstrate the full range of core competencies. All students are expected to contribute to the running of the studio and in doing this they learn to be responsible, humble and empathetic. No jobs are too menial and all need to be done in order to function effectively.
• The process itself is challenging and it demands resilience and humility. The material and the community, the tools and mentorship.

Know

(Content)

• Personal and social responsibility associated with creating, perceiving, and responding in visual arts
• History and theory of a variety of artistic movements, including their role in historical and contemporary societies
• Consider the principles of design and symbolic meaning to create their own self-representation.
• The influence of time and place on the emergence of artistic forms
• A range of local, national, global, and intercultural artists, movements, and genres
• Symbols and metaphors to represent ideas and perspectives in visual art.
• The influence of time and place on the emergence of artistic movements
• Begin to know self through personal exploration, research, and artistic expression.
• Know about First peoples’ principles and their relevance to art and culture.
• The ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism.
• The influence and interconnectedness of the Arts with social, cultural, historical, and political movements.
• Procedures to prevent injury and harm to self and others

Grade C. This is the baseline expectation and students MUST: -demonstrate competence in

Grade B. To produce work of a good standard students SHOULD: -demonstrate proficiency in

Grade A. To go beyond expectations and produce excellent work students SHOULD: - have demonstrated expertise in

• Expressing quality of form, line, shape and structure.
• Understanding clearly space and spatial relationships.
• Showing grasp of technique in the use of materials.
• Understanding surface qualities and the use of colour and tone.
• Communicating a personal response.
• Investigating both original and secondary sources.
• Demonstrating aesthetic judgment
• Providing interesting solutions.

• Expressing quality of form, line, shape and structure well, with some sensitivity.
• Understanding clearly space and spatial relationships.
• Showing mastery of technique in the use of material.
• Understanding surface qualities and the use of colour and tone.
• Communicating a sensitive and individual response.
• Investigating in some depth original and secondary sources.
• Demonstrating an informed aesthetic judgment.
• Providing well thought out solutions.

• Expressing quality of form, line, shape and structure skilfully and with sensitivity.
• Understanding clearly space and spatial relationships.
• Showing complete mastery of technique in the use of materials.
• Understanding fully surface qualities and the use of colour and tone.
• Communicating a sensitive and highly individual personal response.
• Investigating in depth original and secondary sources.
• Demonstrating a well-informed aesthetic judgement.
• Providing elegant solutions.