Employ a diverse range of traditional media, digital media, and multimedia; techniques; styles; tools; concepts; and processes in producing meaningful and expressive compositions.
Organize subject matter and formal qualities in a work of art into meaningful and expressive compositions.
Explore and create works of art and/or design that demonstrate increased technical skill and craftsmanship with various art media to explore a theme, idea, or concept.
Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
Design a body of work in consideration of space and/or contemporary issues.
Maintain a self-directed sketchbook and/or journal.
Produce a thematically-related body of work.
Engage in constructive critiques with peers and revisit works of art/design in response to personal artistic vision.
Apply various methods for preparing works of art/design for presentation appropriate for a set environment.
Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate for displaying artwork in a specific place.
Example: Create matting and frame.
Create, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and/or political history.
Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural and/or digital world.
Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.
Write a reflective narrative that critically analyzes the organizational effectiveness and artistic choices of personal and peer works of art.
Determine the relevance of criteria used by others to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
Apply inquiry and analytical processes when viewing, judging, and consuming usual content to explore unfamiliar subjects through art-making.
Compare modes of artistic expression used in art and other academic disciplines.
Compare uses of art in a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts and make connections to uses of art in contemporary and local contexts.
Individually and/or collaboratively formulate and expand new ideas based on existing artwork.
Make informed choices from a range of materials, methods, and techniques of traditional and/or contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
Experiment to make multiple works of art and/or design that explore a personal theme, idea, or concept and demonstrate mastery of technical skill and craftsmanship with various art media.
Generate an alternative design solution to a visual art problem.
Solve visual art problems using analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Demonstrate the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
Apply and expand traditional and/or unconventional methods to prepare works for presentation and preservation.
Document personal work of art.
Examples: Multi-media presentation, images, and process portfolio
Investigate, compare, and contrast methods for preserving and protecting art.
Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
Compare and contrast universal themes and sociopolitical issues in artworks from different cultures and historical periods.
Explain the importance of major works of art.
Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.
