Visual Arts Guide

Writing: ●​ Have students draft documents, posters, graphic organizers, or outlines that show steps of the artistic process. ●​ As students plan artwork, have them write notes, use graphic organizers, or draft artist statements. ●​ Assign students short writing prompts to document their thinking and progress as they work through the creation of art projects.

Speaking / Listening : ●​ Lead students in verbal responses and discussions about the artistic process. ●​ Assign students to evaluate and discuss ideas they see in the work of classmates. ●​ Have students explain their choices and process decisions in small groups.

Inquiry: ●​ Have students generate ideas about why creative processes exist. What would happen if steps are missing? ●​ Have students build calendars to guide work, indicating milestones and steps along the way.

VISUAL ARTS 7/8 STANDARDS:

●​ 7–8.V.CR.1: Apply methods to overcome creative blocks. ●​ 7–8.V.CR.2: Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media. ●​ 7–8.V.CR.6: Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing. ●​ 7–8.V.CO.1: Individually or collaboratively, create visual documentation of places and times in which people gather to make and experience art or design in the community. ●​ 7–8.V.CO.2: Make art collaboratively to reflect on and reinforce positive aspects of group identity.