NYS Standards for the Arts
- Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts.
1a. Collection of artworks in a variety of mediums.
1b. Use a variety of sources for developing ideas.
1c. Use of elements and principles of art to
communicate meaning.
1d. Reflect effectiveness of medium during creative
process.
1e. Identify and use roles and means for designing,
producing and exhibition of artwork.
- Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources.
2a. Develop skills in various medium, and strong in one.
2b. Use media technology as a designing tool to
communicate visual ideas.
2c. Use community opportunities and cultural
institutions to learn from professional artists. Look
at original art to increase understanding of art.
2d. Understand variety of careers in the visual arts.
- Responding and Analyzing Works of Art.
3a. Write analysis in a critical language.
3b. Identify, analyze and interpret the visual and
sensory characteristics that are discovered in
natural and human-made forms.
3c. Compare the way ideas and concepts are
communicated through the visual arts.
3d. Compare how ideas, themes, concepts are
communicated through the visual arts in other
disciplines, and how they are manifested in the
discipline.
- Understanding the Cultural Dimensions and Contributions of the Arts.
4a. Demonstrates how artwork from other cultures
reflect aspects of the culture.
4b. Demonstrates the ways in which some artwork
reflects the diverse cultures in the United States.
4c. Create artwork reflecting a historical period of the
a culture.