Minnesota K–6 visual art standards

Explore ideas through the work of other artists.

2. Explore artistic ideas through intentional play.

Create art that communicates an idea using artistic foundations.

2. Identify safe procedures for using materials and tools while making art.

Identify choices made in one's original artwork.

Share artwork based on personal preference.

Identify artwork based on a theme or concept using artistic foundations.

2. Identify where art is found in a community.

Recognize that objects, artworks, and artifacts have form and function.

Describe and distinguish between images and real objects.

2. Select and explain reasons for personal preference.

Create art that tells a story about a life experience.

Recognize that all humans make art.

Identify multiple ideas for an artistic prompt.

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

Identify and use symbols when creating art.

2. Practice safe use of art materials and tools while making art.

Discuss possibilities for revision of an original artwork using artistic foundations.

Identify why artwork should be prepared for presentation.

Identify places where art may be displayed or saved.

2. Identify what an art museum is and distinguish how an art museum is different from other art spaces. For example: Physical and digital spaces.

Select artworks, objects or artifacts that share a common idea or theme.

Compare artworks that represent the same subject using artistic foundations.

2. Classify artwork based on different criteria for preferences, including artistic foundations.

Identify times, places, and reasons by which students make art outside of school.

Recognize that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

Collaboratively share ideas for an artistic prompt.

2. Use various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity.

Create art that represents natural and constructed environments. For example: Landscapes versus architecture.

2. Demonstrate safe procedures for using materials and tools while making art.

Describe choices made at different steps in an art making process.

Prepare works of art for presentation in a specific location. For example: Physical or digital formats.**

Choose artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit.

2. Compare and contrast purposes of art museums, art galleries, and other venues or formats.

Identify processes an artist used to create a work of art.

Categorize artworks based on expressive properties.

2. Use art vocabulary to express preferences about artwork.

Compare and contrast subject matter from different times and places.

Identify how artistic foundations are employed differently throughout time and place.

Modify an original idea for a work of art.

2. Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate ideas through the artmaking process.

Create visual representations of places or systems that are part of everyday life using artistic foundations.

2. Demonstrate safe use of studio spaces and equipment.

Discuss feedback about choices made in creating artwork.

Evaluate the functionality of different spaces for exhibiting art.

Explain the purpose of a portfolio or collection.

2. Compare and contrast objects, artifacts, and artworks that are valued in different communities or cultures.

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

Determine messages communicated by an image.

2. Evaluate an artwork based on a variety of established criteria, including artistic foundations.

Compare and contrast representations of the human form throughout time and place.

Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made.

Generate new ideas by combining dissimilar ideas together.

2. Incorporate personal choice into divising a solution for a creative art problem.

Create art that is representational and non-representational using artistic foundations. For example: Naturalism and abstraction.

2. Identify issues involving copying and originality in artmaking.**

Revise in-process artwork, on the basis of insights gained through peer discussion.

Identify considerations for presenting art in various locations. For example: Indoor or outdoor settings; in temporary or permanent forms; in physical or digital spaces.**

Select artwork for display in a collection with a specific purpose or theme.

2. Identify how an exhibition in a museum or other venue presents ideas and provides information about a specific concept or topic.

Describe aesthetic characteristics of the natural world and constructed environments.

Analyze form and content in visual representations that convey messages.

2. Apply one set of criteria to evaluate more than one work of art.

Describe form and content in visual representations that convey personal identity.

Identify how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values or behaviors of an individual or society.

Generate and document an innovative idea for art making.

2. Generate plans for art that investigates a social, cultural, or personal theme.

Using artistic foundations create art that redesigns artworks, objects, places or systems.

2. Explain the ethical responsibility of appropriation in artmaking.**

Create artist statements to describe choices in artmaking, using art vocabulary.

Compare and contrast methods for preparing and presenting art.

Identify and describe the choices an artist makes when assembling a presentation or a portfolio. For example: Physical vs. digital formats.**

2. Explain why some objects, artifacts, and artworks are valued over others.

Identify and interpret works of art that reveal how people live around the world and what they value.

Establish the validity of percieved cultural symbols within an artwork.

2. Compare and contrast criteria used to evaluate works of art.

Use knowledge of one's own culture and heritage to explore personal identity. For example: Family history; ethnic background; customs and traditions.

Make inferences about time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created, citing evidence.

Elaborate upon an initial concept for art making.

2. Plan art with a specific theme, concept, or idea, considering a contemporary or traditional artistic practice.

Employ abstraction, symbolism, or naturalism when making a work of art.

2. Demonstrate awareness of environmental implications of art materials, tools, studio space, and equipment.

Revise artwork based on collaborative reflection on an artwork's intended meaning.

Consider and respond to the needs of the viewer when displaying artwork.

Select artwork for a collection or portfolio based on given criteria.

2. Compare and contrast viewing and experiencing collections or exhibitions in different venues or formats.

Compare different interpretations of a work of art.

Analyze multiple ways that images influence specific audiences.

2. Develop and apply personal criteria to evaluate a work of art using artistic foundations.

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

Identify how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses, including those of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.