New Colorado P-12 Academic Standards

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)

• Analyze, interpret, and make meaning of art and design critically using oral and written discourse

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Artists and viewers identify art in daily life

Inquiry Questions:

1. What do you use to make art?
2. How do you know if art is real or make-believe?
3. Where is art in my world?

Relevance & Application:

1. Material culture uses familiar images to tell a story.
2. The use of senses to observe art allows for the exploration of ideas.
3. Computer games and mass media use visual art images to create a personal identification.

Nature Of:

1. Observation leads to object reality.

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)

• Use specific criteria to discuss and evaluate works of art
• Recognize, articulate, and implement critical thinking in the visual arts by synthesizing, evaluating, and analyzing visual information

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Works of art can represent people, places, and things

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why would you want to make a work of art?

Relevance & Application:

1. Art creates connections among the self, family, and community.
2. Digital media communicates a world of ideas and stories through art.

Nature Of:

1. Art is as diverse as our humanity.
2. Art connects images, symbols, and meaning as a basis for other abstract disciplines such as learning to read, learning mathematical symbols, and acquiring sign-symbol recognition.

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)

• Develop and build appropriate mastery in art-making skills using traditional and new technologies and an understanding of the characteristics and expressive features of art and design
• Recognize, interpret, and validate that the creative process builds on the development of ideas through a process of inquiry, discovery, and research

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Create works of art based on personal relevance

Inquiry Questions:

1. How can art be about you?
2. How can art be personal?
3. How can art tell a story?

Relevance & Application:

1. Art connects with the senses through art-making.

Nature Of:

1. Personal stories are alive in art.

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)

• Transfer the value of visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience
• Explain, compare and justify that the visual arts are connected to other disciplines, the other art forms, social activities, mass media, and careers in art and non-art related arenas

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Artists have an important role in communities

Inquiry Questions:

1. What makes an artist an artist?
2. What do artists use to make works of art?
3. Who can be an artist?
4. How does a person become an artist?

Relevance & Application:

1. Artists contribute to the community.
2. The making of art such as cartoons, illustrations, jewelry, sculptures, and ceramics is both a career and a social activity.
3. Art reflects the interconnectedness among all disciplines and the senses.

Nature Of:

1. Art-making is a lifelong learning activity.