Grades are given based on the Jeffco Visual Art Standards and the Colorado Department of Education Visual Art Standards. They are as follows: 

Standard 1: Observe and Learn to Comprehend

• Use the visual arts to express, communicate, and make meaning through art

Standard 2: Envision and Critique to Reflect

• Articulate and implement critical thinking in the visual arts by synthesizing, evaluating, and analyzing visual information

Standard 3: Invent and Discover to Create

• Generate works of art that employ unique ideas, feelings, and values using different media, technologies, styles, and forms of expression

Standard 4: Relate and Connect to Transfer

• Recognize, articulate, and validate the value of the visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience

Colorado Department of Education 6th - 12th Grade Visual Art Standards 2020