New Jersey K–6 visual art standards

Create art that tells a story or describes life events in home, school and community.

Compare, contrast, and describe why people from different places and times make art.

Describe why people from different places and times make art about different issues, including climate change.

Engage in individual and collaborative exploration of materials and ideas through multiple approaches, from imaginative play to brainstorming, to solve art and design problems.

Engage in individual and collaborative art making through observation and investigation of the world, and in response to personal interests and curiosity.

Through experimentation, build skills and knowledge of materials and tools through various approaches to art making.

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

Create art that represents natural and constructed environments. Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures or other visual means including repurposing objects to make something new.

Explain the process of making art, using art vocabulary. Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made while creating art.

Select artwork for display, and explain why some work, objects and artifacts are valued over others. Categorize artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit.

Explain the purpose of a portfolio or collection. Ask and answer questions regarding preparing artwork for presentation or preservation.

Explain what an art museum is and identify the roles and responsibilities of the people who work in and visit museums and exhibit spaces. Analyze how art exhibits inside and outside of schools (such as museums, galleries, virtual spaces, and other venues) contribute to communities.

Identify works of art based on personal connections and experiences. Describe the aesthetic characteristics within both the natural and constructed world.

Describe, compare, and categorize visual artworks, based on subject matter and expressive properties.

Categorize and describe works of art, by identifying subject matter, details, mood, and formal characteristics.

Use art vocabulary to explain preferences in selecting and classifying artwork.

Create works of art that reflect community cultural traditions. Discuss using formal and conceptual vocabulary.

Communicate how art is used to inform the values, beliefs and culture of an individual or society

Communicate how art is used to inform others about global issues, including climate changes.

Brainstorm and curate ideas to innovatively problem solve during artmaking and design projects.

Individually and collaboratively set goals, investigate, choose, and demonstrate diverse approaches to art- making that is meaningful to the makers.

Experiment and develop skills in multiple artmaking techniques and approaches, through invention and practice.

Demonstrate craftsmanship through the safe and respectful use of materials, tools and equipment.

Individually or collaboratively represent environments or objects of personal significance that includes a process of peer discussion, revision and refinement.

Reflect, refine, and revise work individually and collaboratively, and discuss and describe personal choices in artmaking

Discuss how exhibits and museums provide information and in person experiences about concepts and topics.

Define and analyze the responsibilities of a curator in preserving and presenting artifacts or artwork.

Speculate about artistic processes, interpret, and compare works of art and other responses.

Analyze visual arts including cultural associations.

Interpret ideas and mood in artworks by analyzing form, structure, context, subject, and visual elements.

Identify different evaluative criteria for different types of artwork dependent on genre, historical and cultural contexts.

Generate ideas to make art individually or collaboratively to positively reflect a group's identity.

Analyze and contrast how art forms are used to represent, establish, reinforce and reflect group identity and culture.

Analyze and contrast how art forms are used to reflect global issues, including climate change.

Conceptualize early stages of the creative process, including applying methods to overcome creative blocks or take creative risks, and document the processes in traditional or new media.

Develop criteria, identify goals and collaboratively investigate an aspect of present-day life, using contemporary practice of art or design

Demonstrate persistence and willingness to experiment and take risks during the artistic process.

Demonstrate an awareness of ethical responsibility as applied to artmaking including environmental implications, responsibility in sharing images online, appropriation, and intellectual property ethics.

Apply, organize and strategize methods for design and redesign of objects, places, systems, images and words to clearly communicate information to a diverse audience.

Use criteria to examine, reflect on and plan revisions for a work of art, and create an artistic statement.

Investigate and analyze ways artwork is presented, preserved and experienced, including use of evolving technology. Evaluate a collection or presentation based on this criterion.

Individually or collaboratively prepare and present theme-based artwork for display and formulate exhibition narratives.

Analyze how exhibitions in different venues communicate meaning and influence ideas, beliefs and experiences.

Explain how a person's aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and environment, and how they impact the way in which visual messages are perceived and conveyed.

Compare and contrast cultural and social contexts of visual arts and how they influence ideas and emotions.

Interpret art by analyzing how the interaction of subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, use of media, art making approaches, and relevant contextual information contributes to understanding messages or ideas and mood conveyed.

Create a convincing and logical argument to support an evaluation of art. Explain the difference between personal and established criteria for evaluating artwork.