Sketchbook Making & Artist Trading Cards for Teens: Drawing, Painting, Collage

The National Core Arts Standards are embedded into our weekly art club classes.
Visual Arts/Creating

#VA:Cr1.1
Process Component: Investigate, Plan, Make
Anchor Standard: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question: What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
VA:Cr1.1.7
Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.
VA:Cr1.1.8
Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.

#VA:Cr2.1
Process Component: Investigate
Anchor Standard: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
VA:Cr2.1.7
Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.
VA:Cr2.1.8
Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.

#VA:Cr2.2
Process Component: Investigate
Anchor Standard: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Essential Question: How do artists and designers care for & maintain materials, tools, & equipment? Why is it important for safety & health to understand & follow correct procedures in handling materials & tools? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
VA:Cr2.2.7
Demonstrate awareness of ethical responsibility to oneself and others when posting and sharing images and other materials through the Internet, social media, and other communication formats.
VA:Cr2.2.8
Demonstrate awareness of practices, issues, and ethics of appropriation, fair use, copyright, open source, and creative commons as they apply to creating works of art and design.

#VA:Cr3.1
Process Component: Reflect, Refine, Continue
Anchor Standard: Refine and complete artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.
Essential Question: What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
VA:Cr3.1.7
Reflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or another format.
VA:Cr3.1.8
Apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress.

I am a veteran public school middle and high school art teacher of 16+ years who is moving from public school to online education. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture with a minor in Art History and a sub-concentration in Painting and Studio Arts. I have a Master of Education in Art Education and am currently certified to teach Pre-K through Grade 12. I have taught Art Clubs and Digital Art & Computer Coding Clubs for over a decade.

Students may create artwork independently outside of the art club, but it is not a requirement.

Students are encouraged to keep their artwork as a collection in a safe place, also known as an art portfolio. Students are also encouraged to take photographs of their artworks for posting in the Art Club classroom.

55 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.