Visual Arts Standard 1
Learn and develop the essential skills and technical demands unique to visual arts.

Visual Arts Standard 2
Use visual arts to express ideas.

Visual Arts Standard 3
Integrate understanding of visual arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as all other content areas.

Visual Arts Standard 4
Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process.

Visual Arts Standard 5
Observe, discuss, analyze, and make critical judgments about artistic works.

Visual Arts Standard 6
Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

Visual Arts Standard 7
Demonstrate knowledge about how technology and invention have historically influenced artists and offered new possibilities for expression.

Visual Arts Standard 8
Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions.

Visual Arts Standard 3

Grade K-4 students will:
A. Explore similarities and differences between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.
1. Compare and contrast emotional responses to specific pieces of art and music.
2. Identify and explain the similarities and differences regarding concepts used in arts disciplines such as pattern, texture, symmetry and repetition.
3. Demonstrate the perception of the relationships among the arts (music, theatre, dance, visual art).

B. Identify and apply connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the local curriculum.
1. Use the same piece of original art to produce both a creative writing piece and an informative writing piece.
2. Compare the ways in which repetition, contrast, balance, symmetry and pattern occur in content areas other than art.
3. Talk about, practice or show understanding of the connection between visual art and the other content areas.

Grade 5-8 students will:
A. Explore the characteristics of works in two or more arts disciplines that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural contexts.
1. Create a piece of art that incorporates two or more similar art forms with similar subject matter and historical and cultural contexts.

B. Show ways in which principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with visual arts.
1. Identify and explain the similarities and differences of concepts common to the visual arts and to other content areas.

Grade 9-12 students will:
A. Create art work that demonstrates an understanding of the relationship between selected subjects, symbols, images and design concepts from specific historic and cultural contexts, science, and the humanities.
1. Explore challenging visual arts problems independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

B. Examine how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts.
1. Include in portfolio form examples that demonstrate an understanding of art based on cross-discipline learning.