Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Benchmark 1
The students will apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that the intended meaning is carried out in the product.
Indicator 1
The students will apply media, techniques, and processes to develop skill and confidence.
Indicator 2
The students will produce works of art to learn a variety of techniques and a level of proficiency in traditional media as well as exposing them to new media (ie., computer and photo manipulation).
Indicator 3
The students will demonstrate craftsmanship through control of media and techniques.
Benchmark 2
The students will conceive of and create visual artwork that demonstrates an understanding of how to communicate ideas that relate to the media, techniques, and processes used.
Indicator 1
The students will research possible solutions, choose appropriate media and techniques, complete the expression and critique the completed project.
Indicator 2
The students will work independently through sequential stages and processes to successful conclusions to their art works.
Using knowledge of structures and functions.
Benchmark 1
The students will recognize and successfully employ the elements and principles of design.
Indicator 1
The students will demonstrate that various combinations of the elements and principles of design can be utilized to express ideas in unified art works.
Benchmark 2
The students will develop and refine ideas for expression, create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems and demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions.
Indicator 1
The students will explain their choices of techniques and processes.
Indicator 2
The students will use formal and expressive qualities and discuss their meaning in relationship to their work.
Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.
Benchmark 1
The students will integrate visual, spatial and contextual concepts to
communicate meaning in artwork.
Indicator 1
The students will exhibit an expanded use and understanding of art vocabulary.
Indicator 2
The students will adapt ideas for expression to media and techniques.
Benchmark 2
The students will describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in artwork.
Indicator 1
The students will evaluate and defend the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subject matter, symbols and images are used in their works and in significant works by others.
Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Benchmark 1
The students will demonstrate an understanding of personal, group and cultural relationships and interactions with visual art.
Indicator 1
The students will interpret art works within their historical context.
Indicator 2
The students will recognize a broad range of aesthetic responses.
Indicator 3
The students will examine the meaning of art in the context in which the art was made.
Benchmark 2
The students will describe the function and explore the meaning of art works within varied cultures, times and places.
Indicator 1
The students will investigate how a change in media or technique would alter the appearance, meaning and impact of a work of art.
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
Benchmark 1
The students will identify intentions of those creating art works, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify their analyses of those purposes in particular works.
Indicator 1
The students will make value judgments based on clearly defined criteria to indicate successful use of media, techniques, and processes.
Indicator 2
The students will acquire knowledge and skills related to art careers.
Benchmark 2
The students will reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating visual art works.
Indicator 1
The students will examine and evaluate a variety of techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views and intentions, and how they evoke particular responses to art.
Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
Benchmark 1
The students will understand that people have visually recorded experiences and expressed ideas throughout time.
Indicator 1
The students will respond to events that affect their lives through personal expression in visual media.
Indicator 2
The students will examine the concepts and historical context leading to various movements in art.
Indicator 3
The students will discuss and investigate current issues in art.
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