Maine K–6 visual art standards

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with various arts materials.

Engage collaboratively in creative art-making in response to an artistic problem.

Build skills in various media and approaches to art-making through experimentation.

Identify safe and nontoxic art materials, tools, and equipment.

Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.

Identify uses of art within one’s personal environment.

Describe what an image represents.

Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.

Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.

Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.

Demonstrate safe procedures for using and leaning 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 works of art that illustrate daily life experiences of one’s self and others.

Compare images that represent the same subject.

Brainstorm to generate multiple approaches to an art or design problem.

Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosities.

Experiment with various materials and tools 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 found objects to make a new artwork or design.

Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments.

Categorize images based on expressive qualities.

Elaborate on an imaginative idea.

Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art- making process.

Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.

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

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

Hypothesize about the processes an artist uses to create a work of art.

Determine messages communicated by an image.

Brainstorm individual and collaborative approaches to a creative art or design problem.

Collaboratively set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.

Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.

Utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself or others.

Document, describe, and represent regional constructed environments.

Compare responses to a work of art before and after working in similar media.

Analyze components in visual imagery that convey messages.

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

Identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.

Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice.

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

Identify, describe, and visually document places and/or objects of personal significance.

Compare one's own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.

Identify and analyze cultural associations suggested by visual imagery.