Grade 11/12 Art - Day 56 "ISU Proposal Part 1: Rationale"

Rationale!!

I defined rationale in the following way in the assignment:

• What do you want to do for your ISU and why do you feel this is an important and worthwhile task to take on? What will this piece of work “add” to your portfolio?

I would like to dig a little deeper as the word rationale is one that you will likely encounter over and over on your educational journey.  Your rationale is really how you justify doing something you would like to do, are doing, or have done.  It is part of thoughtful planning.  "The value of developing a rationale is that it provides a framework for this planning" (Brown). 

To help you build upon your initial "Why?" questioning, I will adapt a more famous rationale planning tool developed by Diane Suggert.  Follow these steps:

• For what audience is this art work especially appropriate? 
• To what particular objectives, literary, psychological, etc., does this piece of art lend itself? 
• In what ways will the finished project be used to meet those objectives? 
• What problems of style, content, or theme or possible grounds for censorship exist in the artwork? 
• How do you, as a student, plan to meet those problems? 
• Assuming that the objectives are met, how would the viewer be different because of their viewing of this work of art?