Visual Arts/Media Technology
Skills for the Visual Arts Program
ORIENTATION, TEAMWORK AND COMMUNICATION
- Identify Hazards and Safe Practices in the Workplace
- Maintains clean and safe work area and classroom
- Examine careers in art-related Fields
- Understand the range of possibilities within the career field, determine where their skills and abilities fit within that range
- Cultivate attributes essential for working in the art: attention to detail, stamina, and self- discipline
- Respond to the work of a living artist
- Observe an exhibition and report on it orally and/or in writing
- Provide examples of ways to alter a work schedule to allow for more job sharing among two or more employees
- Work collaboratively in leadership roles and as members of a team
- Identify rubrics with criteria for assessment of individual art works
- Participate in a panel discussion on a topic related to the arts
- Plan a two-week activity that requires tasks to be divided among students or coworkers, including determining priorities and following timelines
- Critique final work in class setting
COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS
- Locate the basic components of a computer system and state their uses
- Navigate the Internet through search engines
- Use the local network to communicate and send files
- Organize files and folders
- Take the proper steps to make an inoperative printer work
- Evaluate why a school computer, ipod, ipad, or other digital device is not working
ILLUSTRATION
- Create a series of drawings/paintings that demonstrate competency in a wide range of media
- Execute descriptive, accurate drawings/painitngs based on observation
- Identify and use drawing tools skillfully
- Draw the human head proportionately
DIGITAL ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY
- Use appropriate terminology - camera parts, card readers, apeture, etc.
- Show proper camera and lighting set-up
- Modify photograph through photo editing software
DESIGN - GRAPHIC,
- Demonstrate the use of the elements and priniciples of art
- Compare how ideas are communicated through the use of the elements and principles of art in diverse artwork
- Apply mathematical terminology to design, proportion, scale, perspective
- Recognize a problem and design steps to solve the problem
- Evaluate a variety of options suggested, select an option, explain the reason for the selection, and provide the strategies for implementation
- Give and accept constructive criticism in a group project
- Evaluate and discuss what makes a website effective
- Brainstorm ideas to create a personal website
- Choose portfolio artwork, links, artist statements, etc. to use in personal website
- Design a website using appropriate technology and computer applications
- Present website in a class critique
- Create a slide show on the VAM Website
LOGO
- Analyze existing logo designs
- Brainstorm, apply and evaluate logo ideas through thumbnail sketches
- Create logo using appropriate technology and computer applications
ADVERTISING and PACKAGING
- View and discuss documentary about advertising
- Employ electronic media to communicate visual ideas and promotional/advertising campaigns
- Create packaging mock-ups
- Compare and contrast raster and vector images
COMICS, ANIMATION, AND VIDEO
- Use Related Terminology
- Create a Video or Animation storyboard for a short video or animation
- Produce a Video or an Animation using a logical sequence of shots
- Evaluate the footage/transitions/Audio/Text and problem solve as needed
- Employ Scientific Theory and Critical Thinking Skills throughout the editing process
- Demonstrate key framing and use of a timeline
- Develop a visual presentation using visual aids to explain how something operates or a “how to”.
ARCHITECTURE
- Design a floor plan/layout for a home with an art studio (graphics, music, architecture or illlustration studio)
- Demonstarte the use of graph paper and its grid
- Use the computer to redraw the plan view in a 3D computer program
- Select appropriate colors, flooring, etc.to finish designing the house
ETHICS AND COPYRIGHT LAWS
- Discuss copyright laws and how the apply to art, photography and music
- Explain royalty-free and fair use regulations
- Show behaviors that comply with social, legal, and ethical requirements of the arts
INDEPENDENT
- Assemble a body of original work that demonstrates competence in the professional practices of a specific career
- Create original works that demonstrate that they are adventurous, courageous, curious, imaginative, independent, and inventive
- Document activities with photographs, sketchbooks, tapes, videos, or written journals
- Display diligence and perseverance in the face of unpleasant tasks
- Understand how to manage time and materials efficiently