Digital and visual art

Course length: Nine weeks

Course number: 500712

Course description:  Students explore the elements and principles of design, experiment with various art mediums, and develop their creative process through projects that encourage personal expression and problem-solving

Students will:

• Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
• Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
• Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.
• Explain environmental implications of conservation, care, and clean-up of art materials, tools, and equipment.
• Design or redesign objects, places, or systems that meet the identified needs of diverse users.
• Reflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly.
• Analyze similarities and differences associated with preserving and presenting two-dimensional, three dimensional, and digital artwork.
• Individually or collaboratively, develop a visual plan for displaying works of art, analyzing exhibit space, the needs of the viewer, and the layout of the exhibit.
• Assess, explain, and provide evidence of how museums or other venues reflect history and values of a community.
• Identify and interpret works of art or design that reveal how people live around the world and what they value.
• Analyze ways that visual components and cultural associations suggested by images influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
• Interpret art by distinguishing between relevant and nonrelevant contextual information and analyzing subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
• Develop and apply relevant criteria to evaluate a work of art.
• Generate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could be investigated in artmaking.
• Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses.

Course length: 18 weeks

Course number: 500712

Course description:

Students will:

• Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.
• Develop criteria to guide making a work of art or design to meet an identified goal.
• Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.
• Demonstrate awareness of ethical responsibility to oneself and others when posting and sharing images and other materials through the Internet, social media, and other communication formats.
• Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.
• Reflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or another format.
• Compare and contrast how technologies have changed the way artwork is preserved, presented, and experienced.
• Based on criteria, analyze and evaluate methods for preparing and presenting art.
• Compare and contrast viewing and experiencing collections and exhibitions in different venues.
• Explain how the method of display, the location, and the experience of an artwork influence how it is perceived and valued.
• Analyze multiple ways that images influence specific audiences.
• Interpret art by analyzing artmaking approaches, the characteristics of form and structure, relevant contextual information, subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
• Compare and explain the difference between an evaluation of an artwork based on personal criteria and an evaluation of an artwork based on a set of established criteria.
• Individually or collaboratively create visual documentation of places and times in which people gather to make and experience art or design in the community.
• Analyze how response to art is influenced by understanding the time and place in which it was created, the available resources, and cultural uses.

Course length: Full year

Course number: 500712

Course description:

Students will:

• Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.
• Collaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art and design.
• Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of artmaking or designing.
• Demonstrate awareness of practices, issues, and ethics of appropriation, fair use, copyright, open source, and creative commons as they apply to creating works of art and design.
• Select, organize, and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations.
• Apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress.
• Develop and apply criteria for evaluating a collection of artwork for presentation.
• Collaboratively prepare and present selected theme based artwork for display, and formulate exhibition narratives for the viewer.
• Analyze why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences.
• Explain how a person’s aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and environment and impact the visual image that one conveys to others.
• Compare and contrast contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
• Interpret art by analyzing how the interaction of subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, use of media, art-making approaches, and relevant contextual information contributes to understanding messages or ideas and mood conveyed.
• Create a convincing and logical argument to support an evaluation of art.
• Make art collaboratively to reflect on and reinforce positive aspects of group identity
• Distinguish different ways art is used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect group identity.

• Art club

• This pathway aligns to all FCPS high school's art requirements