Timeline

Week 1

Student and teacher introductions; present course overview; tour the facilities and describe available resources; conduct preassessment

Week 2: Drawing Unit

Content is drawn from art history, art production, art criticism and aesthetics

Students are given opportunities for practice and exploration

Students begin saving their work in their portfolios and recording their thoughts and actions in their journals

Begin instruction on using traditional library resources for research on the visual arts

Week 3: Painting Unit

Content is drawn from art history, art production, art criticism and aesthetics

Students are given opportunities for practice and exploration

Begin instruction on using Internet resources for research on the visual arts, including virtual field trips to museums via the World Wide Web

Week 4: Sculpture Unit

Content is drawn from art history, art production, art criticism and aesthetics

Students are given opportunities for practice and exploration

Week 5: Ceramics Unit

Content is drawn from art history, art production, art criticism and aesthetics

Students are given opportunities for practice and exploration

Week 6: Other media (e.g. photography, textiles, prints)

Content is drawn from art history, art production, art criticism and aesthetics

Students are given opportunities for practice and exploration

Week 7: Computer-based art making tools

Content is drawn from art history, art production, art criticism and aesthetics

Students are given opportunities for practice and exploration

Study trip to local art museum, art in public spaces, and architecture

Week 8

Students are encouraged to draw upon their own life experiences to begin plans for the creation of an artwork based on a ritual object or event that is personally meaningful to them.

Week 9

Student artists continue working on their art projects and papers by:

1. practicing and refining their skills in working with art media
2. communicating their thinking and feeling about the art they will produce
3. describing the ritual significance of the subject of their artwork
4. explicating the cultural context and art historical basis for their artwork

Week 10

Student artists share their preliminary ideas and sketches with a select group of peers in the class who provide observations and reactions to these tentative plans.

Student artists are encouraged to actively reflect on the peer feedback and make any modifications to their artworks they choose to make.

Weeks 11 - 12 - 13

Student artists continue working on their art projects and papers

Weeks 14 - 15 - 16

Each student selects at least one work of art they have created for the entire class to observe. Then they will give a 10-minute oral presentation based on their artwork and accompanying paper. Next, a colleague in the class will give a brief oral critique of the artwork, followed by reactions and questions from the other students.

Week 17

Students install, jury, and publicize their art exhibition

Artworks and papers are uploaded onto the World Wide Web

Week 18

Student art exhibition opens; awards are presented; all students in the course are recognized and congratulated for their work and creativity