Visual Arts 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

7-8.V.CR.2 Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

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

Experiment

Innovate

7-8.V.CR.4 Collaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using traditional or contemporary practices of art or design.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refer to the methods used by artists to make meaning when shaping an artistic investigation.

Investigate

Make

Plan

7-8:V.CR.11 Reflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or another format, and apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or 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.

Reflect

Refine

Continue

Artistic Process Unpacked

Anchor Standard

Performance Standard

Key Trait

Presenting

7-8.V.P.2 Develop and apply criteria for evaluating a collection of art works for presentation.

Analyze, interpret and select artistic work for presentation.

Develop criteria for evaluating artworks.

Select

Analyze

Apply criteria to selecting and evaluating artwork for display.