ABSTRACT
The literate as a creator within the visual arts requires the ability to read visual art creations and to write visual art creations. In the visual arts, the site or location of inquiry or a space in which the performance or presentation of the work is exhibited or shared can be a meaningful text. To write a visual arts text, one must have experiential understanding about how visual arts texts are created in context. To create a meaningful visual art text, one must engage in visual art discourses. Literacy instruction can support such understanding and engagement but must be based on contemporary practices and discourses within the visual arts. This may include but is not limited to thematic or conceptual problems, methodological positions, delimiting lines of inquiry or bodies of work, materials and process selection, contextualizing one's work within the broad discourse of visual art, presentation and representation concerns, and aesthetic paradigms and stances.
