World Arts

Grade 9

Year Long, 3 Periods per week

Division: Upper School

Department: Fine and Performing Arts: Visual Arts 

Course Title/Code: World Arts I           Art 100 

Objective: To explore culture, time, sight, sound and texture using creative approaches and technology to share with others visually. 

Course Description: The World Arts program is a selection of art courses coordinated with English and History Departments. Together they create an Integrated Humanities approach to the study of various cultures from throughout history and from around the world. 

Goals: The goal of this class is for the students to develop an understanding of art, and the role it has played throughout history and the world 

To enjoy art. It is important for you to enjoy the materials and develop a curiosity about art and how it applies to your life. 

Make connections. You will be expected to embrace challenging tasks which require persistence and creativity. Become a risk taker by exploring and thinking outside of the box. 

Assessment:

-          In Class projects.

-          Sketch assignments

-          Participation.

-          Critiques. 

Grading: 

Major projects; 60 %

Class projects, critiques and sketches: 30%

Participation: 10% 

A: Excellent/ Commendable Quality

-          It shows obvious evidence of thinking and care.

-          It has some sense of inventiveness and/or imagination.

-           Materials are used well. Craftsmanship is strong.

-          There may be evidence of experimentation and/or risk-taking.

-          Composition is purposeful. 

B: Good quality.

-          It is fairly confident.

-          The level of the work may be inconsistent, but the work is strong enough to offset its weaknesses.

-          There is successful engagement with some aspects of technique and/or materials.

-          Most technical aspects are successful; materials are generally handled well.

-          Composition is generally purposeful. 

C: Moderate quality.

-Work shows a sense of real effort, but problems are not successfully resolved.

Technique may be erratic, with little or no sense of challenge.

In contrast to work that receives a D, there is at least some sense of artistic decision-making. 

D: Poor quality.

-There is little, if any, evidence of thinking.

Technique is very poor.

Work shoes a lack of awareness of tools/ media.

Solutions tend to be trite.

Composition is very poor, or doesn’t appear to have been considered. 

F: Incomplete/ Missing. 

World Arts Project Schedule:

World Arts 1—Technology Component 

Cary Academy’s World Arts Program provides an art component to the 9^th grade humanities curriculum that allows students to express content with painting, ceramics, and other traditional art media as well as using computer based imaging and presentations. 

This technology component class is taught to all 9th graders in the fall trimester. This course will result in students being able to use a digital still camera or video camera to take images with high quality sound recording, capture the images and sound into a computer, edit the material, and distribute the content via video tape, web streaming, or DVD.  Students will also learn music synthesis, audio recording and editing, video capturing, image processing and effects, titling, storyboarding and the design process. Competency level testing will be administered throughout the trimester. 

A major part of the course will allow students construct a personal web site that will be maintained throughout their Upper School years. This site will start out with World Arts projects. Teachers will provide opportunities in other classes to add projects to the students’ web sites. And students will be encouraged to add personal components to their web sites. By the junior year the personal web sites can become a student’s electronic portfolio containing a history of the student’s activities at Cary Academy. The e-portfolio can be used for submissions to competitions, for college applications and as a collection for friends and family of the student’s life at Cary Academy. 

Content will be taught in approximately the following order:

• Copyright issues
• The design process
• Design and construction of a web site
• Digital images
• Video production andediting
• Music synthesis
• Audio production and editing
• Video titling
• Storyboarding
• Video distribution

Greece, Myth Visual Art: Study of Greek pottery

The students will create their own Amphora out of clay. They will then use the scrafito method to depict6 a Greek Myth on their ceramic vases. 

Skills:

Learning to think in 3D and the steps to working with clay successfully.

What is greenware? Bisque ware? Glaze ware? What is scratifo? How can line and composition work together to tell a story. Development of fine motor skills.

Persia, India, China, Japan Visual Art: Mandala. 

Introduction of  Mindfuliness Meditation and the Living kindness Meditation. Discussion of the Mandala- where did it originate? What is its importance? What is its purpose? 

We will create our own personal Mandalas. Discussion of abstract symbols and how they create meaning? 

Skills: 

Explore the study of symmetry and 2D design. The idea of abstraction, how can you reduce an idea to get to the primary importance? The introduction of patterns, composition and the color wheel. 

Japan Visual Art: The Japanese Tea Ceremony. 

The students will study the art and ritual of the tea ceremony in Japan? What is its importance? What is Aesthetic. What is personal Aesthetic?

The students will create their own tea bowl out of clay. 

Skills: 

Thinking and working in 3D, developing an understanding of the ceramic process. The student will develop their fine motor skills, explore the study of the Ritual, Aesthetics, Form and Function along with a Visual Vocabulary. 

Rome and the Middle Ages Visual Arts:

The Illuminated Manuscript 

The students will discuss the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the first known manuscript along with Images of the Monasteries, Book of Hours. Learn to use Calligraphy.

The students will create their own Illuminated manuscripts depicting personal prayers, songs, romance or histories. 

Skills: 

Learning to work with pen and ink and watercolors. The students will continue their exploration of line, intertwining lines and the art of Calligraphy. 

Renaissance Visual Art: Study of the Human Form, Anatomy and the Skeleton. 

Study of the works of Leonard da Vinci and other Renaissance artist. Discussion of the book “Drawing From the Right Side of the Brain. The students will grid a Renaissance painting and reproduce it. 

Skills:

How to look at the human form , how to really see proportions, values, shade and contrasting tones.

How to look at a painting and create and mix colors.

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