COURSE DESCRIPTION

Art is available in the classroom at all times, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, theater, performance, puppetry, carpentry, animation, and various crafts. We also visit museums, attend performances and invite specialists in their field to share their passions.

OBJECTIVES

• Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem
• Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity
• Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design
• Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art
• Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art
• Compare images that represent the same subject
• Demonstrate persistence  in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design
• Reflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement
• Interpret art by analyzing art making approaches, the characteristics of form, and structure, relevant contextual information, subject matter and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed
• Individually or collaboratively create visual documentation of places and times in which people gather to make and experience art or design in the community