Grade 8 Fine Arts Next Gen Standards

Investigate and describe connections between different dance works and/or genres that are relevant to the development of one's personal perspectives.

Investigate two contrasting topics, using a variety of research methods. Identify and organize ideas to create representative movement phrases. Create a dance study exploring the contrasting ideas. Discuss how the research informed the choreographic process and deepens understanding of the topics.

Analyze and discuss how dance works or practices from a variety of cultures, societies, historical periods, or communities both reveal and affect the ideas and perspectives of the people. Present documentation of analysis in movement, orally, in writing, and/or via media technology.

Evaluate and implement movement from a variety of stimuli (e.g. music/sound, dance exemplars, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experiences/recall, world news, or social issues) to develop dance content for an original dance study or dance.

Identify and select personal preferences and elements of dance to create an original dance study or dance work. Use genre-specific dance terminology to articulate and justify choices made in movement development to communicate artistic intent.

Collaborate to select and apply a variety of choreographic devices (e.g. retrograde, inversion) and dance structures (e.g. rondo, narrative, ABA) to choreograph an original dance study or dance with a clear artistic intent. Research how different professional choreographers approach their creative process and apply some of these ideas. Use genre-specific dance terminology to articulate the group process for making movement, sound and structural choices.

Define and apply artistic criteria to choreograph a dance that communicates personal or cultural meaning. Discuss how the criteria clarify or intensify the meaning of the dance.

Collaborate to design production elements (e.g. music/sound, props, costumes, lights, set, video) that intensify and heighten the artistry of a dance performed on a stage, in different venues, or for various audiences. Explain reasoning for choices using production terminology. Research the methodology employed by diverse professional choreographers when working with production and non-production partners during the creation and presentation of a dance.

Revise choreography independently or collaboratively, based on artistic criteria, self-reflection, and peer or teacher feedback. Articulate rationale for choices and revisions, and explain how they clarify and enhance artistic intent.

Experiment with aspects of a recognized system of documentation to record a section of a dance by using words, symbols, or media technologies.

Sculpt the body in space and design body shapes in relation to other dancers, objects, and the environment. Use focus of eyes during complex floor and air patterns or direct and indirect pathways.

Analyze and select metric, kinetic, and breath phrasing and apply appropriately to dance phrases. Perform dance phrases of different lengths that use various tempi within the same section. Use different tempi in different body parts simultaneously.

Direct energy and dynamics in such a way that movement is textured. Incorporate energy, dynamics, and musicality in technique classes and performances to enhance and project movements.

Embody technical dance skills (e.g. functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion) to replicate, recall, and execute spatial designs and musical or rhythmical dance phrases. Deepen application and understanding of somatic strategies and their use in dance.

Record and evaluate personal practices in dance activities and everyday life having to do with health, nutrition, and injury prevention. Discuss choices made, the effects experienced, and methods for improvement.

Collaborate with peers to discover strategies for achieving performance accuracy, clarity, and expressiveness. Articulate personal performance goals, and practice to achieve them. Document personal improvement over time (e.g. journaling, portfolio, or timeline).

Demonstrate commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation when preparing for performances. Document the process and progress in writing and in other media, and create a plan for ongoing improvement. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance. Post-performance, receive, record, and reflect upon notes from the choreographer, and apply corrections to future performances.

Explore, devise, and select solutions to adapt to interaction with production elements (e.g. music/sound, props, costumes, sets, lighting) to enhance performance of a dance. Evaluate the effects of various dancer interactions with production elements to intensify and heighten artistic performance of a work, using dance and production terminology. Experiment with diverse ways of incorporating these elements into performance, tailoring choices to different venues and audiences.

Compare, contrast, and analyze recurring patterns of movement, formations, dynamics, key motifs, choreographic devices, and their relationships in advance. Debate how the dance's structure relates to its effect, citing evidence in support.

Examine the hallmarks of a variety of styles, genres, and cultural movement practices, identifying their movement characteristics by analyzing the use of the elements. Use terminology specific to the dance form or practice.

Select a dance and explain how meaning is communicated through relationships between the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, and context. Cite evidence in the dance to support your interpretation, using genre-specific dance terminology.

Apply artistic criteria to determine what makes an effective performance. Consider content, context, genre, style, or cultural movement practice to comprehend artistic expression. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Responding

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Dance performance is an interaction between performers, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

The elements of dance, dance structures, and choreographic structures serve as both a foundation and a departure point for choreographers.

Performing

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Dance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its compositional structure.

Creating

Societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts both influence and are influenced by dance.

Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.

Choreographers analyze, evaluate, refine, and document their work to communicate meaning.

Connecting

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Personal experiences, knowledge, and contexts are integrated and synthesized to interpret and create dance.

Meaningful interpretations of dance consider artistic intent, style, genre, the elements of dance, technique, structure, and context.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Dancers use the body-mind principles and develop the body as an instrument for artistry and artistic expression.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.

Choreographers are inspired by a variety of sources to convey concepts and ideas through movement for artistic expression.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Design, implement, and reflect on a strategy for environment expanding one's knowledge of unfamiliar music.

With teacher guidance, identify the musical qualities that give persuasive music (such as soundtracks, commercials, protest songs) its effect on the perspectives and beliefs of the listener.

Express and share an original musical idea or emotion using technological resources.

Explain how sound is created on a variety of instruments and other sound sources.

Perform folk music from a variety of cultures, including some in foreign languages, and explain the music's role(s) and meaning in its culture of origin, citing sources.

Identify ways in which music is used to inform or change the beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or of a society.

Explore career opportunities in the field of music.

Generate rhythmic and melodic phrases and harmonic accompaniments within expanded forms (including introductions and codas), and explain connection to purpose, context, and/or expressive intent.

Organize and/or demonstrate developed musical ideas for arrangements or compositions that express unity and variety (including theme and variations), and tension and release in expanded forms (including introduction and coda) and convey expressive intent.

Use standard notation and/or audio/video recording to combine, sequence, and document musical phrases and harmonic accompaniments.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to music, applying criteria and feedback (related to appropriate application of compositional techniques), and explain the rationale for changes.

Present the final version of their documented composition, song, or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate the application of compositional techniques for creating unity and variety, tension and release, and balance to convey expressive intent.

Apply established, collaboratively, and personally developed criteria for selecting music of contrasting styles for a program (from teacher-or student-provided options) with a specific purpose and/or context, and explain expressive qualities, technical challenges, and reasons for choices.

Compare the structure of contrasting pieces of music selected for performance, explaining how the elements of music are used in each.

When analyzing selected music, sight-read, on the staff, simple rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic notation, as appropriate to the musical tradition.

Explain how social, cultural and historical contexts inform performances and result in different musical interpretations.

Demonstrate contrasting pieces of music that show their interpretations of the elements of music and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, articulation/style, and phrasing), and explain how they convey intent and are appropriate to the context.

Discuss and apply established, collaboratively developed, and personally developed criteria and feedback to evaluate the accuracy and expressiveness of performances.

Identify and apply appropriate rehearsal strategies and show readiness to present.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Perform music with stylistic expression, technical accuracy, interpretation, and culturally authentic practices.

Perform appropriately for the audience, venue, context, genre, and style, demonstrating performance decorum.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Select and compare how a set of contrasting musical works (from teacher-or student-provided options) connect to and are influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Compare how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of contrasting pieces in a set of musical works.

Identify and compare the contexts of sets of musical works from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods.

Support a personal interpretation of contrasting sets of musical works and explain how creators or performers apply the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres, cultures, and historical periods, to convey expressive intent.

Apply established, collaboratively, and personally developed criteria to evaluate musical works and performances, citing evidence, explaining appropriateness to the context.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.

Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context of a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

Creating

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Musicians judge expression and technique in prepared performances by using criteria that vary across time, place, and culture. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.

Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

The multidimensional system of music allows us to uniquely express and reflect upon ideas, opinions, aesthetic values, and human sentience. Musicians draw upon universal themes, disciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, and life experiences to inform their creative expressions.

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Musicians' presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Performing

Connecting

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Creating, performing, and analyzing music deepens our knowledge of ideas, informs our understanding of cultures, and helps us envision the future.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Musicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Responding

Select and combine personal interests, experiences, and resources to expand knowledge and form new meaning in media artwork.

Explain and demonstrate how media artwork and ideas can relate to various social and political contexts, purposes, and values; past and present.

Explain how media arts promote collaboration and build creative communities that address personal, societal, or global issues.

Produce goals and solutions for media artwork through experimentation and creative processes.

Structure and critique artistic ideas and production processes for media artwork, considering intent, resources, and presentation context.

Analyze and responsibly interact with media arts devices, media environments, legal, and technological contexts, considering ethics, media literacy, social media, and virtual environment.

Implement production processes to integrate content, elements, and stylistic conventions for media arts productions intended for a specific purpose, audience, or place.

Apply criteria to multiple contents, forms, and processes that convey specific themes or ideas in media artwork presentations.

Demonstrate adaptability in the use of tools, techniques, and content in traditional and innovative ways, to communicate intent in the presentation of media artworks.

Design multiple forms and/or contexts for the presentation and distribution of media artworks, evaluating results and implementing improvements by considering effects on both personal artistic growth and audiences.

Compare, contrast, and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the elements of media artwork.

Compare, contrast, and analyze how audience experiences and intentions can be influenced and managed by various forms, methods, and styles.

Analyze intent and interpret meanings of a variety of media artworks, focusing on form and context.

Create a convincing and logical argument to support the evaluation of a media artwork.

Creating

Media artists balance experimentation and freedom with safety and responsibility while developing, creating, and sharing media artworks.

Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of media artwork.

Media artists integrate various forms and contents to present or share complex, unified media artworks.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Media artwork is made to be shared. Media artists purposefully present and distribute media artworks for various contexts.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Connecting

Media artwork synthesize personal experiences to create meaning.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves artistic appreciation and production.

Generating and solving artistic problems prepares people to navigate unforeseen challenges and to contribute to solutions within a society or culture.

The reciprocal nature of creation and presentation of media artworks demands a wide range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems and refine media artworks. Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to effectively present media artworks.

Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, cultures, and various contexts.

Producing

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas, plans, and models into structures that can effectively realize artistic ideas.

Media arts ideas and works are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, artistic traditions, and experiences.

Responding

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Media artworks communicate and influence audience experiences.

Skillful evaluation and critique are essential components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artwork.

Media artists intentionally integrate, analyze, and revise elements, principles and processes to improve the clarity, communication, and purpose of the media artwork.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Design, implement, and reflect on a strategy for expanding one's knowledge of unfamiliar music.

With teacher guidance, identify the musical qualities that give persuasive music (such as soundtracks, commercials, protest songs) its effect on the perspectives and beliefs of the listener.

Describe effective strategies for reaching a musical goal that is of importance to you.

Express and share an original musical idea or emotion using instrumental resources.

Explore the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue vocational and avocational opportunities in the musical community.

Identify the cultural, social, and political uses for music.

Explain ways in which music is used to inform or change the beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or of a society.

Generate melodic and rhythmic phrases that exhibit cohesiveness within forms (such as AB, ABA, song form) over given chord progressions.

Generate chordal accompaniments for teacher-provided or self-composed melodies.

Select, develop, and arrange rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas to generate multi-chord accompaniments to melodies with simple forms (such as AB or ABA), and melodic phrases over specified chord progressions to express intent.

Use standard notation or recording technology to document drafts of musical ideas.

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria to evaluate and refine drafts of melodies (created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms) and two to three chord accompaniments to short or simple melodies.

Explain the rationale for changes, based on evaluation criteria.

Share completed multi-chord accompaniments to teacher-provided or self-composed melodies and melodic phrases (created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms).

Demonstrate and explain expressive intent, and development and organization of musical ideas, based on evaluation criteria and craftsmanship.

Apply teacher-and collaboratively developed criteria to explain and demonstrate how a repertoire of music representing contrasting styles is selected (from teacher-or student-provided options), based on personal interest, knowledge, personal and others' technical skills, and the purpose and/or context of the performance(s).

Identify and compare prominent elements of music (such as form and harmony) in a repertoire of music representing contrasting styles.

Use aural skills and standard notation (rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic) when analyzing selected music.

Explain how elements of music and social, cultural, and/or historical context(s) inform prepared or improvised performance(s).

Demonstrate and explain how intent and consideration of the social, cultural, and/or historical performance context(s) are conveyed through interpretive decisions and elements of music (such as form and harmony) in a repertoire of music representing contrasting styles.

Apply self-reflection and teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria to evaluate prepared or improvised ensemble and personal performances.

Implement rehearsal strategies to address challenges, refine technical accuracy and elements of music (such as form and harmony), show improvement over time, and determine when the music is ready to perform.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Perform a repertoire of prepared or improvised music representing contrasting styles, alone or with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

Demonstrate performance decorum (such as stage presence and behavior) and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, genre, and style.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Demonstrate and compare, using teacher-developed criteria, how selected music (from teacher-or student-provided options) connects to and is influenced by interest, purpose, or personal experience.

Demonstrate and describe, giving examples, how the elements of music are manipulated in musical selections.

Identify how social, cultural, and/or historical context informs a response.

Identify and explain how the expressive qualities; elements of music; and social, cultural, and/or historical context influence performers' interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Explain how interest, experiences, and personal, social, and/or historical contexts affect evaluation, and apply these in interpreting a varied repertoire of music.

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

The multidimensional system of music allows us to uniquely express and reflect upon ideas, opinions, aesthetic values, and human sentience. Musicians draw upon universal themes, disciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, and life experiences to inform their creative expressions.

Performing

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Responding

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Connecting

Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context of a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

Musicians' presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Musicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.

Creating

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Creating, performing, and analyzing music deepens our knowledge of ideas, informs our understanding of cultures, and helps us envision the future.

The quality and effectiveness of a performance is based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Describe effective strategies for reaching a musical goal that is of importance to you.

Design, implement, and reflect on a strategy for expanding one's knowledge of unfamiliar music.

With teacher guidance, identify the musical qualities that give persuasive music (such as soundtracks, commercials, protest songs) its effect on the perspectives and beliefs of the listener.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and timbral ideas, based on characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Select from and develop previously generated ideas into musical patterns that demonstrate particular content of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Preserve drafts of creative work through standard notation and/or recording technology.

Select varied repertoire to study (from teacher-or student-provided options) based on music literacy, an understanding of formal design in the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual and ensemble.

Use teacher and student feedback to develop strategies that address technical challenges to refine performances.

Respond appropriately to specific aural and visual cues (such as phrasing, expression, and articulations).

Describe how understanding context and the way that the elements of music are manipulated informs the response to music.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

The multi-dimensional system of music allows us to uniquely express and reflect upon ideas, opinions, aesthetic values, and human sentience. Musicians draw upon universal themes, disciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, and life experiences to inform their creative expressions.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Connecting

Responding

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Performing

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own abilities, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Explain reasons for selecting music (from teacher-or student-provided options) by citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Connecting

Theater artists refine their work and practice their craft through rehearsal and active participation.

Creating

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Theater artists' interpretations of drama or theater work are influenced by personal experiences and aesthetics.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Creativity is a foundation of theatrical practice.

Theater artists develop personal processes and skills for a performance or design.

Performing

Theater artists share and present stories, ideas, and envisioned worlds to explore the human experience.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Responding

Theater artists work to discover different ways of communicating meaning.

Theater artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created theatrical processes and productions to inform their own work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Theater artists allow awareness of relationships between self and others to influence and inform their work.

Understanding of theatrical experiences is deepened through reflection.

The essence of theater is storytelling.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Theater artists apply criteria to investigate, explore, and assess drama and theater work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Theater artists deliberately interrelate their creative process with the world around them.

Examine a community issue through a theatrical experience.

Use different forms of drama or theater work to examine contemporary social, cultural, or global issues.

Research the story elements of a staged drama or theater work and compare them to another production of the same work.

Identify and use artifacts from a time period and place to develop performance and design choices.

Imagine and explore multiple perspectives and solutions to staging problems.

Explore and collaborate to design solutions for a drama or theater work.

Develop a scripted or improvised character by articulating their inner thoughts, objectives, and motivations.

Articulate and apply critical analysis, background knowledge, research, and historical and cultural context to the development of original ideas.

Share leadership and responsibilities to develop collaborative goals when preparing or devising a drama or theater work.

Use repetition and analysis to revise a devised or scripted drama or theater work.

Refine physical, vocal, and physiological traits of characters.

Implement and refine a planned technical design, using simple technology during the rehearsal process.

Explore different pacing to better communicate a story.

Use various character objectives and tactics to overcome an obstacle.

Practice a variety of acting techniques to increase skills in a rehearsal.

Use a variety of technical elements to create a design for a theater performance.

Perform a rehearsed drama or theater work for an audience.

Apply criteria to the evaluation of artistic choices.

Recognize and share artistic choices when participating in or observing a drama or theater work.

Apply personal aesthetics to evaluate a drama or theater work.

Respond to a drama or theater work by using supporting evidence, personal aesthetics, and artistic criteria.

Articulate the aesthetics of technical elements in a drama or theater work.

Assess the effect of a drama or theater work on a specific audience.

Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.

Artists, curators, and other arts professionals engage appropriate methods and resources when preparing artwork for presentation and preservation.

People create, respond to, and interact with objects and places in ways that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.

People evaluate art, based on various criteria.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Responding

Refine and complete artistic work.

Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique; and reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.

Generating and solving artistic problems prepares people to contribute to innovative solutions within a society or culture.

Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented communicate meaning and function as a record of social, cultural, and political experiences; resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.

Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.

People gain insight into meanings of artwork by engaging in a process of art criticism.

Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.

Artists and designers balance experimentation and freedom with safety and responsibility while developing and creating artwork.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Works of art and design embody and influence the needs, desires, beliefs, traditions, and values of people within a culture.

Connecting

Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.

Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, and the world.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Artists, collectors, curators, and other arts professionals consider a variety of criteria when analyzing and selecting objects, artifacts, and artwork for presentation and preservation.

Presenting

Creating

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Make art collaboratively to reflect on and reinforce positive aspects of group identity.

Through observation, infer information about the time, place, and culture in which a work of art or design was created.

Identify and explore careers in which innovation and creative problem-solving skills are fundamental to success.

Document and reflect on early stages of the creative process, visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.

Collaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life by using a contemporary practice of art and design.

Experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of artmaking or designing.

Explain environmental implications of conservation, care, and clean-up of art materials, tools, and equipment, and demonstrate self-regulation in applying the understandings in the art classroom.

Demonstrate ethical responsibility when appropriating posting, and sharing images.

Select, organize, and design images and text to make visually clear and compelling artistic work.

Apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress.

Develop and apply criteria for evaluating a collection of artwork for presentation.

Collaboratively prepare and present selected theme-based artwork for display, and formulate exhibition narratives for the viewer.

Analyze why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences.

Explain how the method of display, the location, and the experience of an artwork influence how it is perceived and valued.

Compare and contrast contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.

Analyze how the interaction of subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, use of media, artmaking approaches, and relevant contextual information contributes to understanding messages or ideas and mood conveyed.

Create a convincing and logical argument to support an evaluation of art.