Pre-Candidacy RUBRIC Required Excellent Good Fair Poor Elements Research: Form and content Subtle concerns Though concerns Serious Formal qualities effectively paired exist with exist with the concerns of objects, craft craft emerge around candidate’s candidate’s images, or subject matter or subject matter the candidates happenings, etc. there is potential potential to to recover from successfully these issues craft work for the thesis exhibition Materials & Articulates, Loosely In not Makes no Process: discusses and/or demonstrates convincingly reference defends these awareness but aware of formal decisions does not discuss decisions in or defend relationship to decisions content Contemporary Articulates, Loosely Is not Makes no Issues: discusses and/or demonstrates convincingly reference defends awareness but aware of relationship to does not discuss contemporary contemporary or defend issues issues Historic Articulates, Loosely Is not Makes no References: discuss and/or demonstrates convincingly reference defends lineage awareness but aware of historic does not discuss references within or defend lineage the work Written Artist Statement is Statement would Statement is No statement Statement: eloquent and be effective with problematic in presented articulate some revisions regard to style and content Thesis Direction: Effectively Loosely Is not Unable to articulates demonstrates convincingly articulate or discusses and /or awareness but aware discuss defends does not discuss or defend The candidate is not required to address the following elements but may choose to. If presented, they will be evaluated as follows… Enduring Effectively Articulated yet Articulated yet Unreliable and Themes: articulates connections need questionable in problematic to discusses to be more regard to the work and/or defends clearly research and presented researched and connection to the presented work presented Other Sources: Effectively Though relevant, Not entirely Overtly (Personal articulates presented relevant or egocentric and narrative, familial, discusses without breadth necessary not relatable to experiential, and/or defends or references to the work place, etc.) general themes
Pre-Candidacy RUBRIC Required Elements Excellent Good Fair Poor Research: Formal qualities of objects, images, happenings, etc. Form and content effectively paired Subtle concerns exist with candidate’s craft or subject matter Though concerns exist with the candidate’s craft or subject matter there is potential to recover from these issues Serious concerns emerge around the candidates potential to successfully craft work for the thesis exhibition Materials & Process: Articulates, discusses and/or defends these decisions Loosely demonstrates awareness but does not discuss or defend decisions In not convincingly aware of formal decisions in relationship to content Makes no reference Contemporary Issues: Articulates, discusses and/or defends relationship to contemporary issues Loosely demonstrates awareness but does not discuss or defend Is not convincingly aware of contemporary issues Makes no reference Historic References: Articulates, discuss and/or defends lineage Loosely demonstrates awareness but does not discuss or defend lineage Is not convincingly aware of historic references within the work Makes no reference Written Artist Statement: Statement is eloquent and articulate Statement would be effective with some revisions Statement is problematic in regard to style and content No statement presented Thesis Direction: Effectively articulates discusses and /or defends Loosely demonstrates awareness but does not discuss or defend Is not convincingly aware Unable to articulate or discuss The candidate is not required to address the following elements but may choose to. If presented, they will be evaluated as follows… Enduring Themes: Effectively articulates discusses and/or defends Articulated yet connections need to be more clearly researched and presented Articulated yet questionable in regard to research and connection to the work presented Unreliable and problematic to the work presented Other Sources: (Personal narrative, familial, experiential, place, etc.) Effectively articulates discusses and/or defends Though relevant, presented without breadth or references to general themes Not entirely relevant or necessary Overtly egocentric and not relatable to the work
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