HS Visual Art Instructional 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

Anchor Standard

Performance Standard

Key Trait

Creating

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

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

L1.V.CR.5 Collaboratively develop a proposal for an installation, artwork, or space design that transforms the perceptions and experience of a particular place.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

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

Make

Plan

Reflect

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 design in progress.

Refine and complete artistic work.

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

Refine

Continue

Artistic Process Unpacked

Anchor Standard

Performance Standard

Key Trait

Presenting

L1.V.P.1 Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.

Analyze, interpret and select artistic work for presentation.

Develop criteria for evaluating artworks.

Select

Apply criteria to selecting and evaluating artwork for display.

Analyze

L1.V.P.3 Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select artworks based on a theme to display in a public or private place.

Develop

Refine

Prepare artworks for display.

Develop an exhibition narrative to guide viewers.