Artist Statement: Writing Assignment

Please take some time to write the following in a three-paragraph essay. Use the
following outline and rubric to make sure that you include everything and edit it
correctly.

Paragraph I: History and Influences

- What are your major “break-throughs” as an artist?
- Who or what have your major influences or motivators been to study art?

Paragraph II: Description of Who You Are as an Artist

- Describe your style and explain how your style reflects who you are as a
person.
- What do want your art to do? What do you want people to think when they
see your art? How do you want people to feel when they view your art?

Paragraph III: Making Connections

- Take a second to consider this, what would your life be without Art?
- Explain how the arts relate to school-to-school and school-to-work transitions
and other career and life decisions, including the recognition that the arts are a
means of renewal and recreation.

Writing 4 Points 3 Points 2 Points 1 Point

Trait(s)
Content/ -Meets all prompt requirements; -Meets most prompt requirements; -Meets some prompt -Meets few prompt requireme
Organization maintains focus, relevancy mostly focused and relevant requirements; addresses a broad severely digresses from topic
(includes: -Provides main idea and ample, -Provides main idea but details are topic OR focuses on a trivial has no clear focus
focus, specific, accurate, and well- general, brief, obvious, or point -Does not provide main idea o
development, elaborated supporting ideas that occasionally inaccurate -Provides sketchy or inaccurate not support main ideas. --Deta
organization move beyond the obvious -Includes recognizable introduction, information that may be list-like may be repetitious, inaccurate
-Includes inviting introduction, arrangement of ideas, and -Begins or ends abruptly; vague
 logical arrangement of ideas, and conclusion; may wander a bit or arrangement of ideas occasionally -Begins and ends abruptly; litt
satisfying conclusion structure may be overly obvious random no attempt to establish order
-Maintains clear order, uses -Provides some connection between -Connection between ideas not -Does not connect ideas
transitions ideas clear
Style/Fluency -Is engaging -Is occasionally engaging. -Is somewhat bland -Is bland
(Includes -Uses accurate, precise, -Uses accurate, appropriate but -Uses general, simplistic word -Uses simplistic, inaccurate,
voice, word appropriate vocabulary general word choice choice with some usage errors inappropriate, and/or repetitiv
choice and -May use figurative language, -Uses familiar vocabulary and -Uses familiar vocabulary and word choice.
vocabulary; imagery, striking language phrases with some striking phrases -Uses vague language
sentence -Is fluent to read language -Some choppy, awkward, -Choppy, rambling, and/or
structure; -Uses effective sentences that -Is generally fluent but with some rambling, and/or incomplete incomplete sentence
legibility vary in length and structure choppiness or awkwardness sentence. -Has some unreadable portion
-Is readable, neat, and properly -Uses some sentence variety -Little sentence variety
formatted -Is mostly readable, neat, and -Is readable but somewhat sloppy
properly formatted or incorrectly formatted

Language Language skills successfully Language skills support mean

Usage support meaning; few, if any,
errors in following:
-subject-verb and pronoun-
antecedent agreement
-punctuation: end punctuation,
commas, semi-colons,
apostrophes, quotation marks
capitalization, paragraphing
-spelling
Planning
several errors in some or all o
following:
-subject-verb and pronoun-
antecedent agreement
-punctuation: end punctuation
commas, semi-colons, apostro
quotation marks
capitalization, paragraphing
-spelling
-Evidence of planning, draftin
revision

( 0 points may be given for any of these categories)