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Maine K–6 visual art standards

Maine writes its own visual art standards. They are published as Maine Learning Results: Visual and Performing Arts (2022), adopted 2022 and are not a version of a national framework. Every one is matched to a national standard.

Framework
Maine Learning Results: Visual and Performing Arts (2022)
Adopted
2022
Source last checked
July 25, 2026
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42 standards, kindergarten through 6th grade

  • VA.A1.K.aK
    Engage in exploration and imaginative play with various arts materials.
  • VA.A1.K.bK
    Engage collaboratively in creative art-making in response to an artistic problem.
  • VA.A2.K.aK
    Build skills in various media and approaches to art-making through experimentation.
  • VA.A2.K.bK
    Identify safe and nontoxic art materials, tools, and equipment.
  • VA.A2.K.cK
    Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.
  • VA.C1.K.aK
    Identify uses of art within one’s personal environment.
  • VA.C1.K.bK
    Describe what an image represents.
  • VA.A1.1.a1
    Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
  • VA.A1.1.b1
    Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.
  • VA.A2.1.a1
    Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.
  • VA.A2.1.b1
    Demonstrate safe procedures for using and leaning materials, tools, and equipment while making art.
  • VA.A2.1.c1
    Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures, or other visual means.
  • VA.C1.1.a1
    Select and describe works of art that illustrate daily life experiences of one’s self and others.
  • VA.C1.1.b1
    Compare images that represent the same subject.
  • VA.A1.2.a2
    Brainstorm to generate multiple approaches to an art or design problem.
  • VA.A1.2.b2
    Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosities.
  • VA.A2.2.a2
    Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
  • VA.A2.2.b2
    Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.
  • VA.A2.2.c2
    Repurpose found objects to make a new artwork or design.
  • VA.C1.2.a2
    Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments.
  • VA.C1.2.b2
    Categorize images based on expressive qualities.
  • VA.A1.3.a3
    Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
  • VA.A1.3.b3
    Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art- making process.
  • VA.A2.3.a3
    Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
  • VA.A2.3.b3
    Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.
  • VA.A2.3.c3
    Individually and collaboratively construct representations diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.
  • VA.C1.3.a3
    Hypothesize about the processes an artist uses to create a work of art.
  • VA.C1.3.b3
    Determine messages communicated by an image.
  • VA.A1.4.a4
    Brainstorm individual and collaborative approaches to a creative art or design problem.
  • VA.A1.4.b4
    Collaboratively set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.
  • VA.A2.4.a4
    Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.
  • VA.A2.4.b4
    Utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself or others.
  • VA.A2.4.c4
    Document, describe, and represent regional constructed environments.
  • VA.C1.4.a4
    Compare responses to a work of art before and after working in similar media.
  • VA.C1.4.b4
    Analyze components in visual imagery that convey messages.
  • VA.A1.5.a5
    Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for art-making.
  • VA.A1.5.b5
    Identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.
  • VA.A2.5.a5
    Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice.
  • VA.A2.5.b5
    Demonstrate quality craftsmanship through care for, and use of, materials, tools, and equipment.
  • VA.A2.5.c5
    Identify, describe, and visually document places and/or objects of personal significance.
  • VA.C1.5.a5
    Compare one's own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.
  • VA.C1.5.b5
    Identify and analyze cultural associations suggested by visual imagery.

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