Colorado K–6 visual art standards

Recognize that visual art and design can tell stories.

Recognize that individuals will have multiple viewpoints.

Recognize that explorative play with materials can inspire ideas for visual art and design.

Give an opinion on works of visual art and design.

Investigate various properties of tools and materials.

Describe intention for creating artwork.

Use and share materials with intention and care.

Identify how and where artists and designers work.

Recognize how art is integrated into their everyday life.

Recognize that artists intentionally choose materials to help tell their stories.

Identify how works of art express specific feelings using the language of visual art and design.

Demonstrate an understanding that different communities and cultures share their own stories.

Discuss the stories portrayed in a personal work of art.

Envision the potential of a material to be transformed to tell a story.

Choose art media to express ideas and feelings.

Describe the steps used in creating works of art.

Share materials with intention and care.

Tell about the people and places in everyday life through works of art and design.

Identify how stories in visual art and design teach us about each other.

Discuss how visual art and design are used to remember and document personal stories and feelings.

Describe how artists choose materials to communicate ideas.

Discover how similar ideas can be expressed in multiple ways.

Determine what art vocabulary is useful when discussing works of art and design.

Describe how artists reflect on their creative practice to improve works of visual art and design.

Recognize that artists use different forms of research to inform their practice.

Use the language of visual art and design to describe observations and form opinions.

Choose appropriate materials to make art.

Create finished works of art.

Explain choices made in the artmaking process.

Respect and care for classroom materials.

Recognize how visual art and design is interdisciplinary.

Investigate public art and its role within the community.

Investigate the role of art and design in our communities and world.

Identify historical and cultural ideas evident in works of visual art and design.

Use the language of visual art and design as a tool to help determine artistic intent.

Discuss how the use of a material supports or detracts from intended meaning.

Use peer feedback and self-reflection to inform next steps and improve works of art and design.

Describe how research informed a personal work of art.

Demonstrate understanding of how research inspires development of ideas.

Envision solutions to artmaking problems.

Demonstrate how working collaboratively can enhance the artistic process.

Demonstrate understanding of how experimentation helps develop making with purpose and intent.

Determine whether a work of art is finished.

Demonstrate how the art room is a community of makers.

Investigate how visual art and design can make connections between subjects, disciplines or events.

Connect the meaning of personal works of art to historical, cultural or community events.

Hypothesize the steps an artist may have used to complete a work of visual art or design.

Suggest alternative ways an artist could have communicated an idea.

Intentionally revise artwork to better communicate intended meaning.

Recognize how the human experience is expressed in diverse ways.

Respond to works of art using inference and empathy.

Discuss and define how to determine appropriate criteria for a given work of art.

Discuss and form an opinion about the social and personal value of art.

Research from multiple sources to inspire works of visual art and design.

Investigate the ways alternative ideas are generated.

Generate multiple ideas in order to select the idea that best communicates intended meaning.

Communicate a plan for completing works of visual art and design.

Analyze through collaborative discussion how personal works of art can be refined to effectively communicate.

Justify how choice of media communicates personal intent.

Problem-solve and persist to determine the outcome of a final product.

Prepare works of visual art and design for presentation.

Identify and describe how visual art and design communicate meaning between any subject, discipline, event or issue.

Compare works of art between diverse cultures to understand how the role of art is perceived within a given community.

Compare how artists work in different cultures and at different times in history.

Explore connections between works of art from different cultures through time.

Infer intended meaning using the language of visual art and design.

Investigate how artists communicate points of view through personal works of art based on lived experiences.

Observe and discuss how visual art and design exist in a shared contemporary world.

Investigate and discuss how popular culture influences visual art and design.

Support collaborative dialogue to analyze and evaluate one’s own work and that of others.

Reflect on how intended meaning influences the artmaking process.

Reflect on how problem-solving drives the creative process.

Identify various methods of planning for visual art and design

Make decisions during the creative process that best supports the intended point of view.

Discuss with others to determine if intended meaning was effectively communicated.

Contribute to the community of makers in a shared art space.

Utilize traditional and contemporary media to effectively communicate intended meaning.

Revise works of visual art and design to improve ideas.

Justify choices made during the artistic process that resulted in the finished work of art and design.

Prepare works of art and design for presentation.

Investigate how the reciprocal relationship between a work of visual art and design and the context of its culture deepens understanding.

Discuss how art reflects diverse social values and beliefs.

Respond verbally or in written format justifying and interpreting a work of art using the language of art and design.

Develop from oneself and various cultures a mental storehouse of images and the uses, symbolism and meaning of those images.

Describe and discuss the general characteristics of a work of art from various historical time periods.

Interpret a variety of works of art while being respectful and mindful of culturally sensitive themes.

Analyze works of art from various time periods and world cultures by their components of style and design.

Evaluate how interpretations of works of art change based on the viewer’s time, place and culture.

Identify skills, ideas and themes in the visual arts that are influenced by other content areas.

Create works of art using skills from other disciplines.

Interpret meaning in works of art from a variety of perspectives.

Research and compare works of art from different times and places.

Describe and analyze works of art using the language of visual art and design.

Explain the visual qualities of a specified work of art from multiple points of view.

Use feedback from peers to plan and create works of art.

Propose revisions to works of art using the language of visual art and design.

Evaluate redirection and revision during the creative process.

Recognize and utilize the individual characteristics of each medium.

Identify and differentiate the relationships between media choice, art processes and final solutions.

Create and display works of art using a wide variety of contemporary and available media.

Evaluate various technological processes used to make art.

Recognize and discuss how technology operates in the creation of works of art.

Explain and create works of art that incorporate everyday life, traditions, customs and special events.

Draw conclusions from representations of ancestry in works of art.

Identify and explain cross-disciplinary connections in works of art.

Investigate how art is incorporated into contemporary careers.

Research an art-related career of personal interest.

Explain the contributions that art historians, cultural anthropologists, philosophers of art, engineers, computer designers, software engineers or others make to their community and society as a whole.

Display research about artists that engage in social commentary.

Research the motivation for works of art that address social issues.