Arizona K–6 visual art standards

Engage in exploration (such as noticing cause and effect relationships) and imaginative play with materials (such as with paper, markers, clay, crayons).

Engage collaboratively (such as using manipulatives for construction, adding to a group collage) in creative art making in response to an artistic problem.

Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making (such as using the elements of modern art, applying artistic ideas from diverse cultures).

Observe safe practices with art materials, tools, and equipment.

Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.

Identify various types (such as drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture) of art.

Describe what an image represents.

Engage collaboratively (such as in pairs, small groups, or whole group) in exploration and imaginative play with materials (such as puppets, model towns, paper murals, etc.). VA.CR.1.1 b. Use careful observation in preparation for making a work of art. 1st

Explore uses of materials, tools, approaches (such as using elements of modern art, applying artistic ideas from diverse cultures) to create works of art or design.

Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.

Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures, or other visual means.

Select and describe the subject matter of art (such as artworks that illustrate daily life experiences of one's self and others).

Compare images that represent the same subject matter.

Brainstorm collaboratively (such as contributing to and listening to various ideas) multiple approaches to an art or design problem (such as celebrations, cross-curriculum projects, school events).

Experiment with various materials, tools, and approaches (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic ideas from diverse cultures) to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.

Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.

Repurpose objects to make something new.

Use art-specific vocabulary to describe one's natural world and constructed environments.

Compare images based on expressive properties (such as Albrecht Durer's calm "Hare", the energetic Energizer Bunny, the silly Bugs Bunny).

Create an imaginative artwork (such as a work that responds to a story or an invented fantasy) and add details.

Create artwork using a variety of artistic processes, materials, and approaches (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic ideas from diverse cultures).

Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.

Individually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.

Use art-specific vocabulary to speculate about processes (such as pasted paper in a collage and brushmarks in a painting) an artist used to create a work of art.

Determine messages communicated by an image (such as a deer in Native American petroglyphs, animal crossing signs, John Deere logo).

Independently brainstorm multiple approaches to solve a creative art or design problem.

Develop technical skills and explore art-making approaches (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic norms of diverse cultures).

When making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment and practice safe and responsible digital posting/sharing with awareness of image ownership.

Describe, and visually represent regional constructed environments (such as school, playground, park, street, store).

Use art-specific vocabulary to compare responses to a work of art before and after working in similar media.

Analyze components (such as elements and principles in modern art, visual traditions of various indigenous peoples) in imagery that convey messages.

Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for art-making.

Develop skills in multiple artmaking techniques and experiment with approaches (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic norms of diverse cultures) through practice.

Demonstrate quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials, tools, and equipment.

Describe and visually document places and/or objects of personal significance.

Use art-specific vocabulary to compare how artworks made in different cultures reflect the times and places in which they were made.

Identify and analyze cultural associations suggested by visual imagery (such as the skulls and skeletons used in Day of the Dead festivals, dancing dragons used in Chinese New Year celebrations, broken chain as symbol of freedom).

Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.

Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic norms of diverse cultures, addressing social issues in contemporary art) in making works of art and design.

Explain standards of craftsmanship, environmental implications of conservation, care, and clean-up of art materials, tools, and equipment.

Design or redesign objects or places (such as eating utensils, vending machines, wheelchair-friendly nature trails) that meet the identified needs of diverse users.

Use art-specific vocabulary to identify how artworks/artifacts made in different cultures reveal the lives and values of the people living at that time and place.

Analyze ways that visual characteristics and cultural associations suggested by images influence ideas, emotions, and actions (such as white associated with Western weddings and with mourning in some Asian cultures).