Ebook: CRITS: A Student Manual

CRITS: A Student Manual is a practical guide to help students obtain maximum benefits from the most common method of teaching art in college: the studio critique. CRITS positions studio critiques as positive, productive, and inspirational means that foster artistic development. It explains the requisite skills, knowledge, and attitudes for meaningful and motivational participation in critiques. CRITS teaches students the hows and whys of critiques so that they can gain enriching benefits from their instructors and peers during and after critiques.
CRITS is informed by years of research, development, and experimental implementation of critique strategies in schools across the nation. CRITS includes the points-of-view of both students and instructors to promote productive and cooperative learning communities to observe carefully, think reflexively, and take from critiques all that will help them make more and better work.