BHS Visual Art Resource Guide

The following rubric illustrates how artistic processes can tie to standards and class work. The process components provide a starting point to thinking about key understandings and questions to consider when approaching arts content. This rubric is based on a model cornerstone assessment published by the NCAS (National Core Arts Standards).

Artistic Process Unpacked

Enduring Understanding

Essential Question

Anchor Standard

Performance Standard

KeyTrait

Creating

L1.V.CR. Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.

Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed

What conditions, attitudes and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking?

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Visually and/or verbally document multiple approaches to the early stages of the creative process while generating ideas for art making.

Experiment Innovate

Investigate Make Plan

L1.V.CR.5 Collaboratively developa proposal for an installation, artwork, or space design that transforms the perceptions and experience of a particular place. L1:V.CR.6 Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and

Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking established convention, in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.

How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Demonstrate how ideas for a proposal were developed in a group when shaping an artistic investigation.

Reflect Refine Continue

Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising and refining work over time.

Howdoes collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more fully and develop it more completely?

Refineand complete artistic work.

Identify characteristics of

quality specific to the artwork in progress and explain how they were used to make revisions.

design in progress.