Skills

Skills

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, aperture, etc.

  • Show proper camera and lighting set-up

  • Modify photograph through photo editing software

Design - Graphic,

  • Demonstrate the use of the elements and principles 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