2017-2018 Curriculum Map

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Visual Arts Curriculum 2013-2014
	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
	Orientation and Aesthetics	Drawing Skills	Color Theory	Painting	Painting, Continued (Create-A-Day Challenge)	Printmaking and Mixed Media	Sculpture	Sculpture, Continued and Video Projects	Independent Studies and Completing Projects	Art Show and Ideas for Summer
K (39)	Token Response and Classroom Orientation	Line Token Response Game Shape Drawing faces & animals using shapes	Value Color Wheels and Warm/Cool Watercolor Study Self-Portrait Watercolor	Hue Mixing colors with acrylic paint Learning to plan and layer paint	Rhythm Paul Klee Geometric Acrylic Paintings using tape	Texture Stamped & Collaged Texture Landscapes Real & Implied Texture	Form Neolithic Pinch Pots How farming allowed for the formation of art Study of Barbara Hepworth sculpture & token response	Harmony & Balance Matisse Jazz Collage Synesthesia Lesson	Photo-montage Collage Mixed-Media Friend Collage	Continue Photo-montage Collage Mixed-Media Friend Collage
1 (39)	Survey of Art Around the World Art Timeline Token Response	Indonesia Paper Batik Animal Drawing	Panama Molas with complementary colors Middle East Abstract Tile Design Warm/Cool	Germany and Mexico German Expressionism and Frida Kahlo, symbols in Self-Portraiture	Germany and Mexico Self-Portraiture continued Acrylic Painting Techniques	Japan Gyotaku Printmaking of Asia	Greece & Rome Cameos Bas Relief Classical Sculpture	America Robert Rauchenberg, Marcel Duchamp & Ready-mades with found objects	Africa Art of the Yoruba and Adrinka People Mixed-Media Adrinka Stamped collage using foam sheets	Continue Art of the Yoruba and Adrinka People Mixed-Media Adrinka Stamped collage using foam sheet
2 (28)	Survey of Art Movements Art Timeline Token Response	Paleolithic and Neolithic Art Cave Painting Pastels Ancient Egypt and Classic Greek Ionic and Doric Temples Drawn in One-Point Perspective	Impressionism & Fauvism Oil Pastel landscapes with fauvist color schemes	Cubism Intro to Cubism & Color Schemes Analytic & Synthetic Analytic & Synthetic Challenge	Cubism Still-Life	Surrealism & Expressionism Mixed-media collages inspired by The Scream, Edward Munch with one-point perspective backgrounds and dream imagery	Renaissance & Neoclassicism Chimeras, Gargoyles & Architecture	Modernism & Post-modernism Minimalist torn paper collage Study of Mark Rothko and Color Field Painting	Contemporary Installation Art Theatrical Makeup Experimentation and Self-Portrait Photos	Performance & Video Art Short filmed vignettes based on class decisions & discussions
3 (24)	Elements and Principles Written Critique and Group Critique	Scientific Illustration, Electron Microscope Paintings Skeleton Observation and Figure Drawing	Warm and Cool Watercolor Studies Surrealism and Dada Workshop	Color Theory & Color Schemes for Hundertwasser Landscapes	Hundertwasser Landscapes Study of Transautomatism	Linear Shading & Scratchboard	Figure Drawing Review Giacometti Wire Figure Sculptures	Calligraphy Silent Film/Art History Narrated Vignettes	Silent Film 3 Noir Vignettes	Silent Film 3 Noir Vignettes
4 (25)	Critiquing Media Art Vocab Games	Invented Perspective Cityscape Drawings Still Life	Make a personal logo using color theory lesson Print onto stickers?	Intro to Expressionism Exploring emotion in art	Expressionist Painting Unit Continued	Self-Portrait Scratch Foam Print over recycled material collage	Artist-Inspired Mask-Making	Intro to Film Studies Rear Window	Rear Window Elements of Suspense & Visual Storytelling	Rear Window Elements of Suspense & Visual Storytelling
5 (14)	What is Art? Aesthetic Debates Art Vocab Review	Intro to sketchbooks Designing cover Photocopy Charcoal	Composition Color Detectives Recolor a masterpiece	Intro to Wayne Thiebaud Composition using color	Thiebaud Candy Paintings	Linoleum Block Prints German Expressionist Self-Portrait	Clay Hands with emotive positions	DADA & Surrealism Altered Books	Altered Books with digital photography integration	Independent Sketchbook Project (Written proposal)
6 (16)	Art Vocab Review What is Art? Aesthetic Debates	Intro to sketchbooks & designing cover Cross-Hatched Portrait Drapery Shading	Composition Volumetric Solid Studies Master Painting Studies	Painting Unit (Topic based on student choices and proposal)	Painting unit continued	Linoleum Block Prints Textile Design from repeated image (Tote bags?) Personal Logo?	Clay Ocarina/Whistles Origami	Photo Essay Using film & digital photography	Photo Essay Creating a visual narrative	Independent Sketchbook Project (Written proposal)