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
William Colenso College
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:
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Topic and context of final art work
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Cultural risks – consultation; permissions for access to, use of, or reproduction of
sensitive materials received from the appropriate organization, agency, or iwi
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Precedents (artist models)
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Purpose, intention and/or audience
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Media and the materials required
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Techniques and processes to be used
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Scale
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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
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Research imagery online that you may want to use for your artwork.
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Research artist models that have produced public artworks
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Use the rubbish bin template to design at least 2 ideas for your bin
Task 3: Planning the artwork
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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.
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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
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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
Produce a finished work that
demonstrates skills appropriate to
cultural conventions.
Tasks 1 - 4
Judgements for Achievement with
Merit
Produce a finished work that
demonstrates control of skills appropriate
to cultural conventions.
Judgements for Achievement with
Excellence
Produce a finished work that demonstrates
fluent control of skills appropriate to
cultural conventions.
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