Performance:
You are an aspiring graphic designer. You have just finished college and are finally out in the real world. The only problem with the real world is finding work and paying bills. The first thing you do is post an ad on Craigslist, advertising yourself for heir. Within the first 15 minutes your inbox is filled with responses. There are a multitude of requests, from musicians to gallery owners, to movie premiers and plays. Everybody needs your help. This will be your chance to show what you have got. Your job is to pick a client and create their event poster. You need to create a visually appealing poster using using 3 design elements, proper hierarchy, and appealing 2 typography font adjusting tracking, kerning, or leading .
Lesson Plan
In this Lesson plan students will cover important Enduring Understandings, Colorado Academic Visual Art Standards, and address the Prepared Graduate Competencies.
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Enduring Understandings:
Art reflects the history and culture in which it is created.
Interpreting visual art provides an ability to place contemporary art culture in a broader, historical context.
Expressive features of art and design to communicate meaning.
Art reflects the history and culture in which it is created.
Interpreting visual art provides an ability to place contemporary art culture in a broader, historical context.
Expressive features of art and design to communicate meaning.
Art Standards
1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend.
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect.
3. Invent and Discover to Create.
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect.
3. Invent and Discover to Create.
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
Prepared Graduate Competencies
Observer and Learn to Comprehend:
Envision and Critique to Reflect:
Intent and Discover to Create:
Relate and Connect to Transfer:
- Make informed critical evaluations of visual and material culture, information, and technologies
- Recognize, articulate, and debate that the visual arts are a means for expression
- Analyze, interpret, and make meaning of art and design critically using oral and written discourse
Envision and Critique to Reflect:
- Critique personal work and the work of others with informed criteria
- Use specific criteria to discuss and evaluate works of art
- Recognize, demonstrate, and debate philosophic arguments about the nature of art and beauty (aesthetics)
Intent and Discover to Create:
- Develop and build appropriate mastery in art-making skills using traditional and new technologies and an understanding of the characteristics and expressive features of art and design
- Recognize, interpret, and validate that the creative process builds on the development of ideas through a process of inquiry, discovery, and research
- Develop and build appropriate mastery in art-making skills using traditional and new technologies and an understanding of the characteristics and expressive features of art and design
- Recognize, interpret, and validate that the creative process builds on the development of ideas through a process of inquiry, discovery, and research
Relate and Connect to Transfer:
- Transfer the value of visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience
- Explain, compare and justify that the visual arts are connected to other disciplines, the other art forms, social activities, mass media, and careers in art and non-art related arenas
Grade Level Expectations
- Visual art has inherent characteristics and expressive features.
- Historical and cultural context are found in visual art.
- Art and design have purpose and function.
- Reflective strategies are used to understand the creative process.
- A personal philosophy of art is accomplished through use of sophisticated language and studio art processes.
- Interpretation is a means for understanding and evaluating works of art.
- Demonstrate competency in traditional and new art media, and apply appropriate and available technology for the expression of ideas.
- Assess and produce art with various materials and methods.
- Make judgments from visual messages.
- The work of art scholars impacts how art is viewed today.
- Communication through advanced visual methods is a necessary skill in everyday life.
- Art is a lifelong endeavor.