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Course Description
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Art 1
Art class for all skill levels; no prior experience is required. Experience is based primarily on hands-on art making including drawing and painting skills and techniques. Class requires daily participation, effort, and work completion to ensure success. Students will produce finished drawings and paintings as well as keep a detailed sketchbook. Students will use a variety of media including but not limited to: pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, India ink, acrylic paints and watercolor. Must pass Art 1 with a B grade or better to move on to Art 2.
Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs):
ELOs covered in this course will focus on mastery of the following skills:
- Generate possibilities for investigation.
- Describe how inquiry guides investigation through art and design.
- Describe how materials, processes, and ideas in art and design relate to context.
- Interpret works of art and design based on materials, processes, and ideas used.
- Investigate materials, processes, and ideas.
- Formulate questions or areas of inquiry that guide a sustained investigation through art and design.
- Conduct a sustained investigation through art and design that demonstrates practice, experimentation, and revision guided by questions or
inquiry. - Make works of art and design that demonstrate synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas.
- Make works of art and design that demonstrate 2-D, 3-D, or drawing skills.
- Identify, in writing, questions or inquiry that guided a sustained investigation through art and design.
- Describe, in writing, how a sustained investigation through art and design shows evidence of practice, experimentation, and revision guided by
questions or inquiry. - Identify, in writing, materials, processes, and ideas used to make works of art and design.
- Describe how works of art and design demonstrate synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas.
- Describe how works of art and design demonstrate 2-D, 3-D, or drawing skills.
- Present works of art and design for viewer interpretation.
Additionally, this is a standards-driven course. Common Core State Standards in Visual Art may be found at:
https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/vapacontentstds.asp
https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/vapacontentstds.asp
The Elements of Art and Principles of Design
Line - Shape - Form - Value - Space - Color - Texture - Rhythm - Balance -
Emphasis(contrast) - Proportion - Gradation - Harmony - Variety - Movement
Course Syllabus:
- Bronwyn Kiefer-Arcand barcand@njuhsd.com 530.273.4431
- Chris Roscoe croscoe@njuhsd.com 530.273.4431