Tag: Goals

Posted on

How does your sidewalk recede into the space of your life?

CELEBRATE MY RIDE – Help WUHS win a 100,000 grant by VOTING and PLEDGING your Safe Driving Habits: http://www.celebratemydrive.com/

~~~

“Aim higher in case you fall short.”

― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

White Target.. What could Jasper Johns be asking of us with this painting?

~~~

Art Foundations: Sidewalks and 2 point perspective.

SIDEWALKS! How does it recede into space? MATH!

GOALS:

  1. 1.2 create art that shows how your ideas relate to 1.2.3 2 point perspective, 2.3 and perspective center and receding sidewalks (and other objects that recede at a regular interval).

Review with neighbors the process of perspective center and sidewalks. Where did you get stuck? When did the lightbulb go on in your head?

~~~

Advanced Drawing: Back into the Computer Lab – CRITIQUE!

What are you looking at as you look at art? Take the 4 steps to a better critique seriously.

GOALS:

  1. (3.3) describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value (WRITTEN CRITIQUE)
  2. (4.3) compare relationships in visual art in terms of (4.3.2) aesthetics (the study of what makes something beautiful or satisfying or not).

It has all been about reflection today. What challenges are  you still having with the idea of a critique? What did you take away from the critique today? Write down what you have taken from the critique.

~~~

AP Studio Art: Frank and then onto YOUR Second Concentration work. Let’s go FRANK!

Abstract painter Sean Scully may have been born in Dublin, but for the past few years he has lived in southern Germany – where, he says, the rural scenery has changed forever the urban texture of his art. Guardian filmmaker Laurence Topham is given rare access to his studio, where Scully discusses the intimate struggle to paint, his new exhibition in Ludwigshafen and how it feels to be a father in his 60s. Click on the image above to watch his video abut CERTAINTIES (or not) in his artwork.

GOALS:

  1. 2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork (What are you doing with your concentration and how does the audience understand that… how do you?)
  2. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value (What are you communicating?)

What is your plan for the ENTIRE body of work? What is your plan for your next work? Explain in a REAL CONVERSATION with 2 or 3 of your classmates and discuss how it fits into the VISUAL CHALLENGES you are setting up for yourself.

Posted on

Are you on TARGET with your GOALS? Jasper Johns is.

CELEBRATE MY RIDE – Help WUHS win a 100,000 grant by VOTING and PLEDGING your Safe Driving Habits: http://www.celebratemydrive.com/

~~~

“Aim higher in case you fall short.”

― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

Aim for the target… what are you setting your eyes on the target!

~~~ Art Foundations: 2 Point Perspective Windows and Doors

Richard Estes – New York Artist who dealt with Photo realism. Click on the painting for his BIO!

GOALS:

  1. 1.2 create art that demonstrates how you understand the ideas of 2 point perspective and creating windows and doors.

Review with neighbors the process of perspective center and drawing windows and doors and inside walls, floors, and ceilings. Write your most difficult challenge in the GOALS REFLECTION for today and then share that with your neighbor.

~~~ Advanced Drawing: Last day on Pencil Abstractions – Critique tomorrow.

Willem de Kooning (American, born the Netherlands, 1904–1997) Oil and enamel on paper, mounted on wood

GOALS:

  1. 2.3 RESOLVE artworks that solve visual challenges
  2. 5.1 identify the rationale behind making art (NON-Objective from direct observation)

Is there a CONSCIOUS thought as to the positive / negative space in this work? Are you thinking about how the values are working together? Is it still challenging for you to see non-objective inside the real observable objects? Do you UNDERSTAND how you can develop STRONG ideas that are outside of the comfort zone, outside of your art making toolbox? Are you going to be ready for the critique tomorrow?

~~~ AP Studio Art: Critique!

How do we critique an artwork? Let’s look at the worksheets from last time AND the link from the image Above…

GOALS:

WHAT IS THE CENTRAL IDEA FOR YOUR CONCENTRATION?

  1. (3.3) describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value (Orally participate in the discussion of your classmates drawing.)
  2. (4.3) compare relationships in visual art in terms of (4.3.2) aesthetics

What did you take away from the critique today? Write down what you have taken from the crit.

Posted on

Space… the Final Frontier… stART Class ARTerprise in on the way!

DUDE.. Catch a wave with all your MAD SKILLS… WORD! http://www.popfi.com

Remember…

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.”

— Frank Hamilton

~~~

Art Foundations: Let’s wrap up the Portrait! Then… SPACE!

What is MISSING from this picture? How did that happen? 2.bp.blogspot.com

GOALS:

  1. 1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.1 analysis (breaking up the artwork / subject matter to basic elements)

What did you find as the most difficult aspect of the creation of the drawing? What was the hardest? What was the easiest? Are you able to see the negative space in the 1 – drawing, 2 – actual object?

~~~

Advanced Drawing: Last day of the CRIT… Let’s do a great job here. SHARE THE WEALTH in CONVERSATION!

GOALS:

  1. (3.3) Describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value (Oral Crit).
  2. (4.3) Compare relationships in visual art in terms of (4.3.2) aesthetics.

Ok guys and gals… what are you taking into the written crit from what your classmates have said? Make sure you are using the opportunity to write as a strength to the development of your artwork.

~~~

AP Studio Art: Final Crit – ONTO THE IDEAS OF CONCENTRATION –  DESIGNING A CONCENTRATION Worksheets – HERE. 

Another – One MORE – CRIT. uaa.alaska.edu

GOALS:

  1. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks.

  2. 5.3 describe meanings of artworks by analyzing 5.3.1 techniques.

What did you take away from the critique today? Write down what you have taken from the crit. How are you going to improve your work in the future and really improve your abilities?

Posted on

Back to Normal… Whatever That Is.

http://isucceesbook – What skills can you use that will help you conquer your mountain?

“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” — Frank Hamilton

~~~

Art Foundations: Resolve the mixed media self portrait / pattern. Self Evaluation!\

GOALS:

  1. 2.1 form criticism about artworks that work to accomplish 2.1.2 personal goals.
  2. 6.3 use the principles and techniques of art with those from other discipline

Regarding your background… what are you really happy with? What are the areas that need work? What would you do differently if you had the opportunity to rework some aspects of the work?

~~~

Advanced Drawing: The critiques start today – Review Critique ideas – 3 page handout! Oral Crit HERE

http://escapingartist.com – What are you going to add to the crit? What are you going to take a way?

GOALS:

  1. (3.3) describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value Orally participate in the discussion of your classmates drawing.
  2. (4.3) compare relationships in visual art in terms of (4.3.2) aesthetics (1, 2, 3, 5)

hat did you take away from the critique today? Write down what you have taken from the crit.

~~~

AP Studio Art: Crit! Oral Crit HERE

http://www.rovertfinchart.com – What will you bring to and take away from the crit?

GOALS:

  1. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks.

  2. 5.3 describe meanings of artworks by analyzing 5.3.1 techniques. (1, 2, 3, 5)

What did you take away from the critique today? Write down what you have taken from the crit. ON YOUR PRINTED SELF-CRIT. (1, 3, 5).  What notes are you taking?

Posted on

Sept. 3, 2013 – Welcome Back! Now Let’s Have Some Fun!

“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” — Zig Ziglar

What comes between YOU and your GOALS?

Intro Letter to Parents, Guardians, and students – 2013 – 14 – Mr. Korb

~~~

Advanced Drawing: Value Scales and Color Schemes, Introduction to the GOALS!

Continuous Line Contour Drawing… Let’s start here.

GOALS: Before we get started on this… Read the following goal, have a conversation with your neighbor, put the idea of the goal into your OWN WORDS (so that you understand it) and write out your version of the goals… so you still get the idea of the BIG PICTURE.

  1. Apply media, techniques, and processes with an awareness so that your ideas are executed well.

Ask Me ARTnother ROUND 1 – Your understanding of some pretty basic ART questions.

~~~

Art Foundations: PBIS Posters, Introduction to the GOALS!

What does ART mean to you?

GOALS: Before we get started on this… Read the following goal, have a conversation with your neighbor, put the idea of the goal into your OWN WORDS (so that you understand it) and write out your version of the goals… so you still get the idea of the BIG PICTURE.

  1. Work on creating multiple solutions to poster design about PBIS.

Ask Me ARTnother ROUND 1 – Your understanding of some pretty basic ART questions.

~~~

AP Studio Art: CONCENTRATION, Introduction to the GOALS!

Bananas, Bananas, Bananas…

GOALS: Before we get started on this… Read the following goal, have a conversation with your neighbor, put the idea of the goal into your OWN WORDS (so that you understand it) and write out your version of the goals… so you still get the idea of the BIG PICTURE.

  1. Work on creating multiple solutions to single object “concentration” drawings

Ask Me ARTnother ROUND 1 – Your understanding of some pretty basic ART questions.

Posted on

A new year at WUHS, a reflection on the summer, and a new look at GOALS

Wow, the summer has flown by! What was the highlight of YOUR summer? Mine? I am glad you asked. The highlight of my summer came just as it was ending at the Burlington Fly-In on Sunday, August 25. We had worked from 6:30 – 1:30 (or so) helping the B*Jazzled group from BHS raise money for the upcoming Show Choir year and I met the son of my favorite author Richard Bach (Illusions, Johnathon Livingston Seagull, One, Stranger to the Ground… among others) Rob Bach.  In addition to being related to the author of life changing books, he himself was a fantastic new friend to have made. We had great conversations throughout the afternoon and I hope to make some artistic plans later on down the road with him and his family.

“Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah” Richard Bach.

After that wonderful meeting, Abby and I took an opportunity that doesn’t happen too often in life (although, in Burlington, WI it DOES happen once a year…) and we went up in an open seated Biplane with the Gypsy Air Tours (1930 Waco Taperwing). What an experience. The air, the wind, the sights, the smell… almost too much to remember. It was truly the end (almost) to a great day with my family. We ended with a great dinner of Gino’s Pizza, a bit of back to school shopping, and great tasting frozen yogurt as we enjoyed the final summer days of Lake Geneva, WI.

Abby and Me in the Open to the Sky Cockpit! Ready for Takeoff!
A view of Lake Geneva, WI – it was BEAUTIFUL!
The 1930 Waco Taperwing Biplane of Gypsy Air Tours

The school year begins for me today and my students next week. While I am always a bit sad that summer ends quickly, I am also happy to be back to the best job in the world – Art Teacher at Waterford Union High School. A lot of changes are coming our way this year – an old face back in  a new administration seat – welcome back Dan Foster, an old and familiar face gone on to new adventures south of the boarder (Illinois, not Mexico…) – good bye Eric Blake. Technology initiatives, character development initiatives, new gallery fundraising initiatives… so much to do in such a short amount of time… and a new approach to GOALS in my classroom. While I will still be focusing on the National Visual Arts Standards and the National Educational Technology Standards – no kid gets excited about standards and goals… not in the classroom at least. I will be focusing my efforts in the first 3 minutes of class on breaking these goals down into ones that are understood by the kids – so that they REALLY process the meaning and ideas behind them… TEAMWORK and COLLABORATION!

Until next week –

Frank

Posted on

June 13, 2013 – Thursday – How’s Summer?

Please follow me by entering your e-mail address (see the right of the screen) to get daily updates, ideas, and inspirations. Share, Retweet – however you can share me…

Welcome to Thursday! As the summer has entered the second half of its first week, I have set my summer goal to post on Monday’s and Thursday’s. Next week I will be presenting at the Interactiv Learning Conference in Whitewater, Wisconsin so… I may be posting a few more times than twice next week. Enjoy!
~~~
What was your favorite aspect of this class? Please go into some explanation to allow for a fully developed thought and answer.

  • “Trying hard on my work and Mr. Korb recognizing the quality of my work even when I can’t.”– Art Foundations Artist 2013 – NVAS Goal 2.3, 2.4, and 4.5
  • “Your humor, your environment. The general fun in the class” – Art Foundations Artist 2013 – NVAS Goal 3.3
  • “Being able to choose things that relate to me.” – Art Foundations Artist 2013 – NVAS Goal 2.6 and 3.1

~~~

AP Studio Artists Works - Kyle S.'s Mixed Media installation... I am curious as to where this work has ended up... Click on the image to visit the AP Google Presentation of their entire body of work from 2012 - 2013.
AP Studio Artists Works – Kyle S.’s Mixed Media installation… I am curious as to where this work has ended up… Click on the image to visit the AP Google Presentation of their entire body of work from 2012 – 2013.
Posted on

May 5, 2013 – Wednesday – Exam Day 2!

What was the single greatest accomplishment for you over the past semester?

“I feel my understanding of what makes art has developed further. I am more open minded.” 2013 WUHS Art Student – Art Foundations

~~~

If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.” ―Kristin Armstrong

Write out those dreams… then share your dreams with others. ~~~ 

~~~

4th Hour EXAMS: 7:25 – 8:55

AP Studio Art: 2012 – 13 Portfolios – Collaborative Presentation

5th Hour EXAMS: 9:05 – 10:35

Drawing:

6th hour EXAM: 10:45 – 12:15

~~~

10 Lessons the Arts Teach Children

  1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
  2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
  3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
  4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
  5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
  6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
  7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
  8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
  9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
  10. The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.

Posted on

May 4, 2013 – Tuesday – EXAM DAY

If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.” ―Kristin Armstrong

Write out those dreams… then share your dreams with others.

~~~ 

Art Foundations: Abstract Paintings – Link Here

1st Hour EXAMS: 7:25 – 8:55

2nd Hour EXAMS: 9:05 – 10:35

Drawing:

3rd hour EXAM: 10:45 – 12:15

~~~

10 Lessons the Arts Teach Children

  1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
  2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
  3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
  4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
  5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
  6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
  7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
  8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
  9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
  10. The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.

Posted on

May 31, 2013 – Friday

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.” —Norman Vincent Peale

~~~

Art Foundations: It is time to clean… Yesterday proved that without me, and without a VERY specific set of GOALS for your PERSONAL LEARNING – you have no need to study and all the time in the world to clean. GREAT!

Job List is HERE!

GOALS:

  1. 6.1 compare aspects of the visual arts with aspects of other disciplines.

Looking through your binders, thinking about the projects, looking at your notes… what are the aspects of the course that you are still struggling to grasp. Take the last 7 minutes to work with your neighbors and discuss the challenges that you are still having.

~~~

DRAWING: Out into the hallways and DRAW – Project DUE on EXAM DAY along with the ONLINE – GOOGLE DOCUMENT Rubric. Let me know if you are having troubles!

GOALS:

  1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.1 skill 1.1.2 confidence 1.1.3 and awareness so that your ideas are executed well
  2. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks (YOU AND COLLABORATOR – FORMATIVE TONIGHT ON GOOGLE DRIVE)

What have you got to do in order to really wrap this up as an A+ Execution, A+ Composition, A+ Character, and A+ Critique (that will be the final exam grade – – CRITIQUE)? Some of your HALLWAY choices (socializing) are getting in the way of your accomplishing the A+ goals.

~~~

AP Studio Art: Clean the room – Update your final – Gather your Artwork… What else have you got to accomplish?

GOALS:

  1. 6.1 compare aspects of the visual arts with aspects of other disciplines.

What has been your FAVORITE project this year? What has been your LEAST favorite project this year? What can I do to make the course better, stronger, more APish?