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You Are An Artist!
Students in grades K-5 will explore all the ways they can be artists. Young artists will explore their imaginations, look closely at Clyfford Still’s art, and express themselves. Every artist will receive a sketchbook to record their ideas and observations during and after their museum visit.
Experience:
Big Ideas:
- I belong in creative spaces.
- I can be creative.
- I am always learning about myself and others.
Essential Questions:
- What are creative spaces? What is a museum?
- In what ways am I creative?
- Who am I?
Learning Targets:
- I can be myself.
- I can explore and play.
- My ideas are important. I can share them with others.
What will we do?
- Transition into the Museum and introduction to the experience.
- Divide into small groups and build community with educators.
- Use our imaginations to look at Clyfford Still’s abstract art, then create artwork to explore our imaginations.
- Look closer at artworks that capture students’ interests. Before the visit, we’ll ask teachers and students about the artworks they want to spend more time with.
- We might use our senses to experience Still’s representational art, explore the colors, shapes, and feelings in abstract art, or spend time with both.
- Art-looking experiences also include time to draw and play in our sketchbooks in response to Still’s work.
- In all experiences, students will form and share their interpretations, listen and respond to others’ ideas, write and draw to learn and reflect, and collaborate with classmates.
- Debrief and transition out of the Museum.
Connections to Academic Standards:
Visiting the Clyfford Still Museum addresses multiple standards for the State of Colorado, Core Standards, and CASEL Social-Emotional Learning Framework. In a single Museum visit, students demonstrate essential skills, read, write, and communicate, build awareness of self and others, and participate in the iterative process of making, critiquing, and reflecting.
- Colorado Essential Skills:
- Creativity/Innovation
- Risk Taking
- Self-Awareness
- Initiative/Self-Direction
- Personal Responsibility
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Perseverance/Resilience
- Collaboration
- Civic Engagement
- Character
- Self-Advocacy
- Leadership
- Colorado Academic Standards in Reading, Writing, and Communicating:
- Oral Expression and Listening
- Reading for All Purposes
- Writing and Composition
- Research Inquiry and Design
- Common Core State Standards:
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.6
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.3
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.1
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.3
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.L.6
- Colorado Academic Standards in Visual Arts:
- Observe and Learn to Comprehend
- Envision and Critique to Reflect
- Invent and Discover to Create
- Relate and Connect to Transfer
- National Core Arts Standards:
- Anchor Standard 1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
- Anchor Standard 2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
- Anchor Standard 3. Refine and complete artistic work
- Anchor Standard 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
- Anchor Standard 6. Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
- Anchor Standard 7. Perceive and analyze artistic work
- Anchor Standard 8. Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
- Anchor Standard 9. Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
- Anchor Standard 10. Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
- Anchor Standard 11. Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
- CASEL Social Emotional Learning Framework:
- Self-Awareness
- Self-Management
- Social Awareness
- Relationship Skills
- Responsible Decision Making