Level 1 Visual Arts
Course Description
Visual Arts course offers students the opportunity to earn 15 credits while exploring a range of artistic techniques and mediums. This program provides a comprehensive approach to both traditional and contemporary art-making conventions.
Key Features:
Artistic Exploration: Students will engage in various techniques, including printmaking, woodcuts, etching, sketching, painting, photography, colour theory, and toi Māori.
Medium Selection: For their final piece, students can choose their preferred medium, which will be showcased as part of a larger Art exhibition.
Sustained Artworks: Students are required to create a cohesive body of related artworks, presented as a single folio board, demonstrating their artistic development and conceptual understanding.
Art Trips: As part of their learning experience, students will go on at least two art-related trips, providing exposure to diverse artistic environments and practices.
Learning Outcomes:
Skill Development: Mastery of various art techniques and mediums.
Creative Expression: Ability to produce and present a final artwork in their chosen medium.
Portfolio Creation: Development of a sustained body of work and presentation skills.
Cultural and Contextual Understanding: Enhanced appreciation and understanding of art through field trips and practical experiences.
Recommended Prior Learning
Yr 10 and/or Yr 9 Art, or with other relevant experience, with HOF of Arts approval. If you are keen to try new things, you will be able to achieve.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Art Pack prices to be confirmed, Course fee $45.00. Students will need to pay for their own printing costs, and will need a pen drive or external storage device for their digital work.
Pathway
The Creative Industries pathway: If you’re the creative type there’s a multitude of opportunities in this industry, from working in visual and performing arts to roles in communications and events. People in this industry are cultural ambassadors for the country, they tell our stories and help shape the future.
Careers include Architecture, Graphic Design, Animation/gaming Design, Fine Arts, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Museum and Education, Theatre and Film production, and so much more!
Assessment Information
Two internal assessments and one external assessment.Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
External
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.1 - Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore an Aotearoa New Zealand Māori context and another cultural context
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Visual Arts 1.2 - Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions
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Visual Arts 1.3 - Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making
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Visual Arts 1.4 - Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition
Pathway Tags
Exhibition designer, Fine artist, Further education teacher, Higher education lecturer, Illustrator, Museum/gallery curator, Printmaker, Secondary school teacher, Art therapist, Arts administrator, Commercial art gallery manager, Interior and spatial designer, Museum/gallery exhibitions officer, Multimedia programmer,
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Disclaimer
Course selection will depend on the option lines and student numbers. There is no guarantee that the courses you select now will all be available for you in 2024.