Your artist statement can be typed or written by hand. Please have a 1st draft to me by Monday. Your Photo Essay photos are due to the folder on the drive by Friday. See the link in the post below. Or, you can email them to me:

etuttle@cps.edu

The Photo Essay Artist Statement Outline

Directions: Use these sentence frames to guide you in writing your artist statement. Each different section is a paragraph.

1.      Describe the purpose of this project and what you made. 5-7 images of an event or issue at Clemente or community.

For the photo essay project I was supposed to create a visual essay of 5-7 images about an event or issue of my choice here at Clemente or in the community.

The topic I chose to photograph is…

During this project I learned about…

2.      Explain the Skills and Techniques you learned to make your photo essay. These skills and techniques included: the style of photojournalism, editing photos in Photoshop. The steps in the process: deciding on a topic, photographing, getting feedback, editing photos in Photoshop, publishing your work.

The skills I learned to create my photo essay were…

The techniques I used for this project were…

3.      Demonstrate the Knowledge and Understanding you gained through your research paper and how that applied to your final photo essay.

I studied the history of _______ (photographer/event) .  This photographer played an important role in the development of photo journalism  by…

This event played an important role in the development of photo journalism by…

I learned…

I used this knowledge in my photo essay by… or My photo essay relates to this event/photographer because…

4.      Explain the process (application) you went through to get to your photo essay topic. How did you experiment and think “outside the box”?

               First I …then I…lastly I…

               I experimented and thought outside the box by…

State how you incorporated feedback from your peers in both your D.W. and in class critiques.

               The most valuable feedback I got was…

               The way I used this feedback was to…

5.      Reflect on your artwork.  Was it successful and what evidence do you have for this? What could you do to improve? Most challenging? Most proud of?

               I feel my photo essay was successful because… The evidence I have for this is…

               I could improve my photo essay by changing….

               The most challenging part of this project was… because…                

I am most proud of…

              

Your artist statement will be assessed using the IB criterion C rubric:

Art 1 Q1 Artist Statement Rubric

Criterion C: Reflection and evaluation

Maximum: 8

Students should be able to:

·    reflect critically on their own artistic development and processes at different stages of their work

·    evaluate their work

·    use feedback to inform their own artistic development and processes.

Achievement Level	Level Descriptor
0	The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors below.
1-2	The student records his or her artistic development and processes with little reflection. The student carries out a limited evaluation of his or her work, with guidance.
3-4	The student reflects on his or her artistic development and processes. The student carries out a satisfactory evaluation of his or her work. Some aspects of the evaluation may be unrealistic or incomplete. The student attempts to use feedback in his or her artistic development and processes, with guidance.
5-6	The student reflects critically on his or her artistic development and processes at different stages of his or her work. The student carries out a good evaluation of his or her work. The evaluation includes an appraisal of the quality of work produced and an identification of some areas of improvement. The student uses feedback in his or her artistic development with little guidance, which informs his or her own artistic development and processes.
7-8	The student reflects critically and in depth on his or her artistic development and processes at different stages of his or her work. The student carries out an excellent evaluation of his or her work. This shows a considered appraisal of the quality of work produced and details of improvements that could be made. The student intentionally uses feedback in his or her artistic development, which shows an appropriate consideration of his or her artistic processes.

Notes

For Q1, I will focus mainly on C3 but will consider 1 and 2 as I will be asking students to complete these tasks as well.