Visual Arts: 8th Grade

 Document early stages of the creative process using traditional or emerging media. 

 Collaboratively investigate an aspect of contemporary life utilizing art and design. 

 Experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge when making art, using course specific craftsmanship. 

 Demonstrate awareness of ethical responsibility and the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and presentation of original work. 

Select, organize, and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations. 

 Apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress. 

 Develop and apply criteria for evaluating a collection of artwork for presentation. 

 Collaboratively prepare and present selected theme-based artwork for display, and formulate exhibition narratives for the viewer. 

 Analyze why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences. 

 Compare and contrast contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions. 

Explain how aesthetic choices are influenced by visual and material cultures and can impact perceived meaning of artworks. 

8.VA.R2.A Interpret art by analyzing how mood and meaning are impacted by the relationship of subject matter, use of media, art-making approaches, and relevant context while using appropriate art vocabulary

Construct a persuasive and logical argument to support an evaluation of art. 

Make art collaboratively to reflect on and reinforce positive aspects of group identity. 

 Distinguish different ways art is used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect group identity.