Visual Arts Level 1

Achievement Standard 90917
1.5
Produce a finished work that demonstrates skills appropriate to cultural conventions
Public Art – Rubbish Bins
4 credits

Achievement Standard Visual Arts 90917: Produce a finished work that demonstrates skills appropriate to cultural conventions

Visual Arts 1.5

Public Art – Rubbish Bins

Credits: 4

Context/setting

It is important that students demonstrate their awareness of cultural conventions and technical processes at all stages of this activity. The following need to be considered:

  • Topic and context of final art work
  • Cultural risks – consultation; permissions for access to, use of, or reproduction of sensitive materials received from the appropriate organization, agency, or iwi
  • Precedents (artist models)
  • Purpose, intention and/or audience
  • Media and the materials required
  • Techniques and processes to be used
  • Scale
  • Site (if art works are to be installed in a specific location).

Conditions

This assessment activity should take approximately six weeks of in and out-of-class time.

Additional information

For moderation purposes students and art works will be photographed throughout the process.

Achievement Standard Visual Arts 90917:Produce a finished work that demonstrates skills appropriate to cultural conventions

Visual Arts 1.5

Public Art – Rubbish Bins

Credits: 4

Achievement / Achievement with Merit / Achievement with Excellence
Produce a finished work that demonstrates skills appropriate to cultural conventions. / Produce a finished work that demonstrates control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions. / Produce a finished work that demonstrates fluent control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions.

Student instructions

Introduction

This assessment activity requires you to devlop a design for the rubbish bins around the school. You can work on one side of the bin with a partner or paint a complete bin. If you choose to do one side you must work with your partner to ensure that both designs work for the same bin. To do this you will explore the culture of your school or your local community and develop ideas using the cultural conventions of Public Art.

Task 1: Research Public Art and rubbish bin artworks.

From the examples provided by your teacher discuss as a class the cultural conventions inherent in Public Art. This discussion should inform your design ideas and be evident in your final artwork.

Ideas might include the importance of scale, colour, purpose, site, techniques and context. Consideration of the cultural community that you are producing the artworks for – your audience, is crucial to the success of the artwork. We want our community to want to use the bins that we paint.

One week of class and homework time.

Task 2: Developing your ideas

  • Research imagery online that you may want to use for your artwork.
  • Research artist models that have produced public artworks
  • Use the rubbish bin template to design at least 2ideas for your bin

Task 3: Planning the artwork

  • Select the most successful idea and annotate around the drawing the colours and techniques you plan to use to complete your artwork. You do not need to do an exact colour copy of what the bin will look like but you can have swatches of colour and arrows to show which parts are going to be the which colours. Consider how you will apply your design, for example you may decide to use sponging to create texture or that you need to create a template to transfer the design to the bin. Consider the order that you will apply the paint. Do you need to paint the background one solid colour first or will you paint your design first? Annotate these decisions around your drawing.

Tasks 2 and 3: two week of classtime

Task 4: Transfer the artwork to the bin

The rubbish bin surface has already been prepped to receive paint.

•Apply your design to the rubbish bin. This may involve background layers of paint first or drawing straight onto the bin. Use chalk so that you can assess your drawing as you go and when you are happy with it, pencil in the design. If you are going to use a cardboard template and enlargement using the photocopier, cut this out with a craft knife and then draw onto your background colour.

Task 3 - one week of classtime

Task 5: Painting the bin

  • Paint the bin. The bins will need multiple layers of paint as well as a final clear protective coating. Attention to detail is crucial as the bins will be viewed by the public for many years to come.

Task 5 - four weeks of classtime

Assessment schedule: Visual Arts 90917 Public Art – Rubbish bins

Evidence / Judgements for Achievement / Judgements for Achievement with Merit / Judgements for Achievement with Excellence
Produce a finished work that demonstrates skills appropriate to cultural conventions. / Produce a finished work that demonstrates control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions. / Produce a finished work that demonstrates fluent control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions.
Tasks 1 - 4 / This evidence supports the development of skills for this standard but is not an explicit requirement of the achievement criteria. Students are able to achieve the standard at all levels with the successful completion of a single finished work.
Relevant images with notes about the cultural conventions that have informed the art works.
Relevant development images that describe and illustrate the proposed final piece, with notes about the technical requirements and cultural conventions that will inform their art work.
Photographs of the work n progress will form the main documnetation for the assessnment of this artwork.
Task 5
Finished outcome
Final grades will be decided using professional judgement based on a holistic examination of the evidence provided against the criteria in the Achievement Standard. / Finished work that demonstrates skills appropriate to cultural conventions.
Cultural conventions and skills appropriate to public art include:
- the selection and use of appropriate materials and techniques
- the selection and redesign of subject matter that is appropriate to the purpose and context
- the management of the brief, constraints, costs, and time frames. / Finished work shows some understanding of the cultural conventions studied and the ability to manage the media in relation to the intended outcome.
Finished work that demonstrates control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions.
- the selection and use of appropriate materials and techniques
- the selection and redesign of subject matter that is appropriate to the purpose and context
- the management of the brief, constraints, costs, and time frames / Finished work shows deeper understanding of the cultural conventions studied and the ability to assuredly manage the production of the work to successfully realise the intended outcome.
Finished work that demonstrates fluent control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions.
- the selection and use of appropriate materials and techniques
- the selection and redesign of subject matter that is appropriate to the purpose and context
- the management of the brief, constraints, costs, and time frames