Program Objectives

Media

Students will use a broad range of traditional 2-D, 3-D, and electronic media and technology to express ideas and to create art.

Behavior

Students will demonstrate behaviors that reflect an awareness of the relationship between making art, studio citizenship, and the care and maintenance of art room materials, supplies, tools, and equipment.

Skills

Students will develop and use a wide variety of media-specific skills and artistic-thinking skills across a broad range of 2-D, 3-D, electronic and technological media to express ideas and create artistic content.

Criticism & Aesthetics

Students will respond to their own art, the work of others (classmates), exemplars in art history, and art related subject matter by applying the techniques and principles of art criticism, art aesthetics and persuasive writing,

Principles and Elements

Students will apply the Principles of Design and Elements of Art in the creation of their artwork, in critical dialog, and in applied writing activities in art criticism, art aesthetics, and art history.

Vocabulary

Students will use a broad range of art-related vocabulary in critical dialog and in applied writing activities in art criticism, art history, and art aesthetics.

Art History

Students will describe the connection and relationship between the artist and the creation of art within and across a broad range of western and non-western societies and cultures.

Creativity

Students will develop and use characteristic traits of creativity (and artistic habits of mind) to express unique, personal, and divergent ideas in artistic content.

Self-expression

Students will develop skills and confidence as artistic thinkers by transforming ideas- as responses to art projects, art assignments, and art problems –into unique, personal works of art.

Connections

Students will describe and make connections between art, art experiences, and art history to their own work, the work of others, across curricula, and the world around them.

Themes & Subject Matter

Students will use a wide range of themes and subject matter to create expressive content in art.

Writing

Students will use writing in art as a meaningful opportunity to express ideas and understandings about art through various writing activities including, art criticism, art aesthetics, and art history.

Technology

Students will use technology as an expressive and efficient tool for developing, executing, and communicating artistic content.

Visualization & Visual Literacy

Students will express the power and function of artistic visualization and visual literacy through activities in writing, critical visual analysis, and by interpreting, judging, and creating influential artistic content.