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

Enduring Understanding

Essential Question

Anchor Standard

Performance Standard

KeyTrait

Creating

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.4 Collaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using traditional or contemporary practices of art or design. explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or another format, and apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan 7-8:V.CR.11 Reflect on and

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 early stages of the creative process while generating ideas for art making.

Experiment Innovate

Investigate Make Plan

Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking established convention, in pursuit of creative artmaking goals. Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising and refining work over time.

How do artists determine what resources and

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

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

criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?

Reflect Refine Continue

Howdoes collaboratively reflecting on a work help us

Refineand complete artistic work.

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

experience it more fully and develop it more completely?

revisions for a work of art or

design in progress.