The Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Frameworks (MACF)

By the end of the elementary school the students should be able to:

• Standard 1 - Media, Materials and Techniques

Students will demonstrate knowledge of media, materials and techniques unique to the visual arts.

• Standard 2 - Elements and Principles of Design

Students will demonstrate knowledge of the elements and principles of design. For example color, line, texture, pattern, shape, space and composition.

• Standard 3 - Observation, Abstraction, Invention and Expression

Students will demonstrate their powers of observation, abstraction, invention and expression in a variety of media, materials and techniques.

• Standard 4 - Drafting, Revising and Exhibiting

Students will demonstrate knowledge of the processes of creating and exhibiting artwork: drafts, critique, self-assessment, refinement and exhibit preparation.

• Standard 5 -Critical Response

Students will describe and analyze their own work and the work of others using appropriate visual arts vocabulary. When appropriate, students will connect their analysis to interpretation and evaluation.

Visual Art and Connections

• Standard 6 -Purpose of Meaning in the Arts

Students will describe the purpose for which works of dance, music, theater, visual art and architecture were and are created and when appropriate interpret their meanings.

• Standard 7- Role of Artist in Communities

Students will describe the roles of artists, patrons, cultural organizations and arts institutions in societies of the past and present.

• Standard 8 -Concepts of Style, Stylistic Influences and Stylistic Change

Students will demonstrate their understanding of styles, stylistic influence, and stylistic change by identifying when and where art works were created, and by analyzing characteristic features of art works from various historical periods, cultures and genres.

• Standard 9 -Inventions, Technologies and the Arts

Students will describe and analyze how performing and visual artists use and have used materials, invention and technologies in their work.

• Standard 10 -Interdisciplinary Connections

Students will apply their knowledge of the arts to the study of English language arts, foreign languages, health, history, social science, mathematics and science and technology/engineering.