AC9AVA10P01 Year 9 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

evaluate art exhibits to inform the curation and exhibition of their own and/or others’ artworks and/or visual arts practice

Elaborations

• 1 investigating ways in which artworks are displayed and how artists and curators work together to create a visual narrative that communicates broader ideas about an artist’s/group of artists’ intentions; for example, by creating a virtual or scale model of an exhibition of an artist they have researched in order to communicate their understanding of the artist’s intentions
• 2 selecting and presenting their own artworks for exhibitions in class, in the school or in the wider community
• 3 planning and curating exhibitions of their own work, community installations, projects or imagined exhibitions of artworks by other artists, considering, as appropriate, Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights
• 4 developing material to accompany exhibitions, such as didactic panels, artists’ or curatorial statements, branding, advertising or press statements
• 5 visiting and evaluating exhibitions of work in physical or virtual galleries, museums or in community sites in order to identify options for presenting their own exhibitions
• 6 developing responses to exhibitions of work; for example, in written/oral/multimedia explanations or reviews, digital forms of presentations or in verbal/vocal discussions
• 7 constructing explanations of how artists, designers, architects or craftspeople communicate ideas and meaning in artworks, written discussions, annotated images, debates or digital presentations; evaluating options/preferences and using similar approaches when creating their own work, and creating an artist statement or curatorial statement

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