High School Fine Arts Maryland Standards

Connecting

Responding

Presenting

Creating

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Use information from choreographed dance phrases to improvise variations or expand on the movement.

Think creatively to produce a set of directions for structured improvisation that includes contrasting elements.

Investigate movement elements that define a particular style, technique, or genre of dance. Choreograph phrases that are complementary with the accessed information.

Demonstrate multiple solutions of varying complexity to movement problems both independently and in collaboration with others.

Demonstrate the ability to create dance by improvising, using a variety of stimuli, and organizing dance ideas.

Work individually and collaboratively to use the movement vocabulary and terminology of various styles and genres to create original work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Work independently to reflect and document on how personal experiences, knowledge, and growth both inside and outside of dance impact personal choices in dance making.

Devise a statement that connects personal values and artistic values, then communicate those values clearly through a created dance.

Use information from the examination of literature, scientific texts, artistic works, current events, etc.; reflect on personal experiences in relationship to that information, and create an independent dance that connects that information.

Identify and communicate reasons to create dance outside of school.

Reflect upon and analyze how content and context guided personal aesthetic development over time.

Develop a culminating project demonstrating research of multiple topics and document the process.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Work independently or collaboratively to analyze and document how societal, cultural, and historical events have impacted the development of dance and vice versa.

Create a media product and analyze and document how societal, cultural, and historical events have impacted the development of personal dance literacy.

Apply technology effectively and research distinctive aspects of a community and use the research to create a dance tailored for that community. (e.g. special needs, local group, elementary school).

Think creatively and collaborate with others to develop a project that enriches a community; document the creative process (e.g., senior center).

Analyze and evaluate the impact of a choreographer/artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society.

Analyze and discuss how specific movement characteristics, techniques, and artistry relate to the people from which the dances originate and to personal dance literacy.

Analyze the ways people use dance as a means of communication and expression from a cultural, societal, and historical perspective.

Describe influences and interactions among music, dance, theatre, visual arts, media arts, and other disciplines, citing research.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Translate an idea into a movement theme, using skills and knowledge from the Language of Dance information (LOD).

Design an original work, using one of the forms, genres, or styles of dance study, acting on creative ideas and producing results through performance of the work.

Develop a short, independent (personal) manifesto for creating dance, act on the idea by choreographing and organizing movement that illustrates it, and communicate clearly to justify choices.

Create and collaborate effectively with others to develop a project that incorporates the diverse personal histories of the group. Manage the project, set goals, and develop a timeline.

Demonstrate and justify personal movement choice by combining the elements of dance, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms of dance to communicate artistic intent.

Develop an artistic statement for original work and explain how movement choices support the artistic statement.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Analyze created work, decide what to revise, and communicate revision decisions with clear justification.

Design a process for creating and organizing independent dance work.

Create a media product for documenting, revising, and evaluating personal dance work.

Use and analyze information from feedback on independent or collaborative work in relation to artistic intent and whether it was clearly communicated.

Analyze and evaluate the impact of choices made in revision of created work. Justify how revisions clarify artistic intent.

Create a system to document and organize works of dance.

Use self-reflection and feedback from peers, teachers, and adjudicators to refine work.

Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.

Be a self-directed learner and increase and improve technical skills in solo and partnering work.

Increase clarity of technique and complexity of performance sequences in different styles and genres

Communicate with an audience clearly through the use of refined performance skills.

Work collaboratively with diverse teams to perform choreography in unison and interact effectively and cohesively as a member of an ensemble.

Articulate clearly and effectively in performance with attention to details and nuances that communicate artistic expression.

Using BEST, expand solo, partner, and ensemble performance skills to greater ranges, technical levels, and attention to audience consideration.

Develop and refine artistic work for presentation.

Memorize and perform technically and artistically accurate choreography.

Create and follow a personal plan that supports healthy dancing and living (nutrition, warm-up, fitness, discipline, life-choices, stress, education, and goals).

Analyze personal alignment strengths and weaknesses and create a remedial plan.

Create an effective and efficient rehearsal process.

Apply body-mind principles and technical dance skills to the performance of complex choreography.

Apply anatomical principles and healthful practices to a range of technical dance skills, and follow a personal plan that supports health for everyday life.

Plan and execute collaborative and independent rehearsal processes with attention to technical details and artistry.

Demonstrate proficiency in dance form and technique, discuss ways in which proficiency affects dance performance.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Make decisions regarding the production elements that will support choreography. Focus on aspects of stage production such as lighting, sound, costuming, etc.

Work effectively with diverse teams as a contributor to a production in roles such as rehearsal assistant, wardrobe mistress, stage manager, lighting designer, hair and makeup design, program design, marketing, etc.

Manage a production and collaborate effectively with a team to produce a work of art, concert, or lecture-demonstration.

Perform a dance focusing on performance competencies, such as projection, ensemble awareness, expression in movement, and/or communication of choreographic intent.

Interact with an audience in a formal and informal reflection activity.

Dance for an audience demonstrating professional standards of performance etiquette and practices. Use a broad repertoire of strategies for audience connection.

Work collaboratively to produce dance works and concerts in a variety of venues, and design and organize the production elements that would be necessary to fulfill the artistic intent of the dance works.

Develop a professional portfolio that documents the rehearsal and performance process.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Think critically in order to analyze the structure of complex choreographic works.

Use information from dance terminology to analyze patterns and relationships in a dance and how they create meaningful choreography.

Apply technology effectively by creating an instrument for capturing analysis of how meaning is communicated in different dance styles.

Work independently to describe orally and in writing, how aesthetics relate to your personal interpretation of a dance.

Work independently to analyze the choreographic structure of a dance and create a new dance using that structure.

Analyze choreography for structure, meaning, and artistic intent.

Analyze how dance communicates aesthetic and cultural values using specific dance terminology.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Communicate clearly and explain how social and historical context contribute to the meaning of a dance.

Think critically and compare and contrast artistic expression in a variety of different dances.

Work collaboratively to make judgments and decisions in order to justify various interpretations of the same dance, interacting effectively with others.

Reason effectively and explain how refinements beyond technique contribute to artistic expression, communication of intent, and meaning in a dance.

Analyze and interpret artistic expression, using dance terminology, across genres, styles, or cultural movement practices with attention to intent and meaning.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Think creatively and critically to develop and justify personal criteria for evaluating a dance.

Make judgments and decisions in order to write an aesthetic analysis of a choreographic work.

Apply technology effectively to write an aesthetic analysis of a personal choreographic work.

Make judgments and decisions regarding personal choreography and create and justify a plan to strengthen the work, managing goals and time efficiently and effectively.

Engage appropriately as an audience participant in formal and informal settings.

Critically examine and document personal efforts in choreography and performance.

Using industry-standardized criteria, evaluate production processes and final media products.

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Expectations

Access, evaluate, use, and manage resources to create media products.

Make claims with supporting evidence to show how decisions change elements of media.

Indicators

Access, evaluate, and use resources to form the creation of original media artworks.

Explain and demonstrate how the use of media artworks expands meaning and cultural experiences.

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Expectations

Reason effectively how media reflects different contexts, cultures, and values in society.

Critically apply technology safely and effectively considering media literacy and vocational standards.

Analyze and evaluate the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society.

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Demonstrate and explain how media artworks and ideas relate to various contexts, purposes and values in society.

Critically evaluate and effectively interact with the legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts.

Describe influences and interactions among media arts, dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and other disciplines, citing research.

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Expectations

Work independently to create a visual representation of formulated ideas.

Act on creative ideas to generate artistic goals.

Predict potential obstacles and generate possible solutions.

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Use identified generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, develop artistic goals, and problem solve in media arts creation processes. Strategically utilize generative methods.

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Expectations

Apply elements of media arts to refine brainstormed ideas into a production plan.

Indicators

Apply aesthetic criteria in developing, proposing, and refining artistic ideas, project designs, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions.

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

Expectations

Apply aesthetic and technical fundamentals to modify production plan.

Analyze media production plan to create a meaningful impact in their final product(s).

Indicators

Consolidate production processes and synthesize content to demonstrate deliberate choices in complex media arts productions.

Refine and modify aesthetic elements and technical components to intentionally form impactful expressions in media artworks.

Anchor Standard 4: Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.

Expectations

Access, evaluate, use and manage multiple types of media (video, sound, still pictures) with academic content to produce one media product that has a consistent theme.

Indicators

Integrate and synthesize various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions.

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic work for presentation.

Expectations

Be self-directed learners to define artistic/technical skill sets and roles for media production plan.

Define and develop the skill sets needed to execute media production plan.

Apply and adapt use of tools and techniques to construct innovative media content.

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Demonstrate and employ artistic, design, technical, and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks.

Develop and refine a determined range of creative and adaptive innovation abilities.

Demonstrate adaptation and innovation in the production of media artworks.

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Expectations

Communicate a clear purpose and setting for presentation of media production or multiple media artworks. Manage distribution of media product(s).

Critique presentation and/or distributed materials and implement improvements.

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Curate and design the presentation and distribution of collections of media artworks in multiple formats for different audiences.

Evaluate and implement improvements in presenting media artworks.

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Expectations

Analyze the intended messages and audience experiences presented through a variety of media components.

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Analyze the qualities and relationships of the components and audience impact in a variety of media artworks.

Analyze audience experience and create intention.

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Expectations

Analyze media from the media arts industry to discuss intent, meaning, and audience reception.

Analyze their media product(s) to discuss intent, meaning, and audience reception.

Indicators

Analyze the intent, meanings, and reception of a variety of media artworks.

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Expectations

Using industry-standardized criteria, evaluate production processes and final media products.

Indicators

Evaluate media art works and production processes using identified criteria.

Connecting

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Expectations

Identify and justify personal and cultural influences as well as creative preferences in creating, performing, and responding to music.

Understand and connect the learning gained in school with music skills and experiences gained both inside and outside the classroom and school environment, including after-school programs, community music-making, and extracurricular opportunities.

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Describe how interests, experiences, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and musical intentions when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Expectations

As self-directed learners, make connections between music and other personal, societal, cultural, historical, political, and ethical ways of communication, through creating, performing, or responding to music.

As self-directed learners, connect music to other people’s personal life experiences, when creating, performing, or responding to music.

As self-directed learners, describe influences and interactions between music and other common core subjects, including the arts, through creating, performing, or responding to music.

Analyze and evaluate the impact of a musician or musical group on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society.

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Describe, justify and explain how music functions as a form of personal, societal, cultural, historical, political, and ethical communication and expression, citing musical characteristics and research.

Describe and analyze factors that impact the roles of music in the lives of people, citing research.

Describe influences and interactions among music, dance, theatre, visual arts, media arts, and other disciplines, citing research.

Creating

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Expectations

As both a self-directed learner and as a collaborator with others, create musical works that clearly communicate personal, cultural, or historical experience, using appropriate technology as available.

Create music with well-developed melodic, rhythmic, dynamic, and formal elements, including complex harmony, in response to artistic stimuli, using appropriate technology as available.

Indicators

Conceptualize and generate musical works for varied contexts, and artistic purposes with advancing use of compositional techniques, including effective use of available technology.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Expectations

Apply tools, which may include standard notation, iconic notation, or recording technology, to notate or record developed musical ideas. Craft and present a composer’s statement that clearly summarizes and supports creative and conceptual choices.

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Use a variety of media and methods, including available technology, to develop, present, explain, and document musical works with connections to context and artistic purpose.

Refine and complete artistic work

Expectations

Evaluate and refine personal musical ideas in response to feedback and document revisions.

Incorporate refinements to personal musical ideas through analysis and implementation of feedback.

Present a performance-ready version and clearly support judgments and decisions made during the creative process, including refinement, using appropriate technology as available.

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Develop and apply criteria (including elements of context and intent) to evaluate and summarize refinements to personal musical ideas.

Support rationale for refinements to personal musical ideas and describe how the inferred musical purpose is addressed.

Present a performance-ready version of personal musical ideas demonstrating an advancing level of craft and artistic purpose.

Presenting

Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.

Expectations

As independent learners, select a piece of music to read, analyze, and perform with attention to composer’s creative intent. Justify and support performance decisions.

Identify and summarize how the consideration of musical contexts informs and influences music selected for performance.

Support and justify the use of artistic qualities when interpreting music for performance, including attention to composer’s intent.

Read from iconic notation, standard notation, or alternative notation systems in preparation for performance, justifying and supporting their use in appropriate contexts.

Indicators

Apply criteria to determine the selection of music for performances based on purpose, context, technical skills, theoretical characteristics, and artistic qualities.

Describe and analyze performance decisions made when presenting music in an appropriate context, including attention to composer’s intent.

Describe and explain how creative intent is communicated through interpretation in a variety of musical styles, contexts and genres, including expressive aspects and musical elements.

Read and perform from iconic and/or standard notation, justifying and supporting appropriate context for different notation systems.

Develop and refine artistic work for presentation.

Expectations

As self-directed learners, identify performance challenges and develop strategies collaboratively to improve performance quality, technical accuracy and artistic purpose.

Apply feedback to improve and refine music in rehearsal.

As self-directed learners, manage goals and time with flexibility, to address newly identified challenges, in order to improve quality of musical experience for performers and listeners.

Indicators

Develop, apply, and refine appropriate rehearsal strategies to determine rehearsal practices, areas of refinement, and readiness of performance within a varied repertoire and within diverse ensembles.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Expectations

Perform a varied repertoire of music with artistic purpose, demonstrating technical mastery.

Interact effectively with the audience and other performers to convey the artistic purpose of the piece as well as intended interpretation. Reflect with the listeners in discussion or other activity appropriate to the context.

Choose a varied repertoire of music for performance by applying knowledge of time, place, and culture and determine readiness of music for public performance.

Indicators

Communicate purpose through music performance, paying attention to accuracy, interpretation, composer’s intent, and cultural authenticity.

Determine and demonstrate performance decorum appropriate to the context.

Responding

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Expectations

Select a piece of music and analyze the musical elements as well as the context of the piece. Explain how the analysis informs and enhances a personal response to the music.

As self-directed learners, use analytical evidence to support and communicate the importance of structure, musical elements, and context when listening to music.

Indicators

Use research and self-developed criteria to justify choices made when selecting music, citing knowledge of the music including its purpose and context.

Describe how the analysis of structures and contexts (social, cultural, and historical) inform the response to a variety of music selected for study.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Expectations

Analyze information about the structure, musical elements, context, and observed performances of a piece of music in order to develop a personal interpretation. Justify artistic choices.

Analyze and respond to music through personal interpretation, justifying musical choices by defining and defending creative intent.

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Analyze interpretations of the creative intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, compositional techniques, and research.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Expectations

Choose pieces of music or musical performances from both familiar and unfamiliar styles, and evaluate the quality according to selfdeveloped criteria. Clearly communicate a point of view using appropriate musical vocabulary, citing evidence based on the criteria, personal choices, research, and understanding of contexts.

Engage appropriately as an active listener in formal and informal settings, paying attention to audience etiquette appropriate to the genre of music.

Choose a varied repertoire of music, and document comparisons and contrasts between the different pieces of music.

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Develop and justify personal evaluation of music, programs of music, and performances, using appropriate musical vocabulary.

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Generate and Conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Research a critical global issue and collaborate with others to devise a theatrical work.

While working with a diverse group, be flexible and adapt artistic choices to involve all members clearly and empathetically communicate theme in a theatrical work.

Lead and interact with the audience in a formal or informal response activity.

Create a self-reflective review.

Investigate a critical global issue using multiple personal, community and cultural perspectives to respond collaboratively in a theatrical work.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Work independently to synthesize personal, cultural and historical views into compelling artistic choices.

Use discipline-specific literacy to construct, develop, and clearly communicate personal aesthetics.

Apply innovative storytelling techniques to explore and expand cultural and historical themes in a theatrical work.

Independently craft an innovative traditional / nontraditional theatrical work.

Analyze and evaluate the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of society with diverse cultural norms.

Justify artistic choices for a devised, cross-cultural theatrical work based on critical analyses using diverse research methods.

Craft and present a variety of theatrical work synthesizing personal, historical and cultural understanding of story, theme, and theatrical conventions.

Describe influences and interactions among theatre, dance, music, visual arts, media arts, and other disciplines, citing research.

Research and assess information about various cultural and historical theatrical conventions concerning plot and character.

Effectively utilize available technology to create and communicate a complete design concept.

Collaborate with others to synthesize knowledge of historical and cultural contexts, theatrical conventions and personal experiences to develop a theatrical work.

Think creatively and be flexible in rehearsing, designing, and producing an original theatrical work.

Research and explore how cultural and historical theatrical conventions inform plot and character choices in an original theatrical work.

Develop a complete design concept, incorporating multiple aspects of technical theatre, for an original theatrical work.

Integrate cultural and historical contexts with personal experiences to create a character that is convincing and authentic in a theatre work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Utilize script analysis and playwriting techniques and evaluate personal artistic choices in a devised/adapted theatrical production.

Research information about the world of the play and work creatively with others to enhance artistic choices during the rehearsal process of a devised/adapted theatrical production.

Use technical theatre knowledge and collaborate to explore how each element of technical theatre interacts to enhance storytelling and theme.

Be responsible with others and work effectively in a diverse team to enhance a devised/adapted theatrical production.

Use available technology to enhance artistic choices in a devised/adapted theatrical production.

Utilize critical analysis, historical and cultural contexts, and learned theatrical conventions to collectively develop original artistic choices to clarify thematic meaning.

Collaborate as a creative team with defined responsibilities to discover artistic solutions and make interpretive choices in a devised theatrical work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Utilize information on theatrical traditions and conventions and evaluate artistic choices in a theatrical production.

Manage time to accomplish artistic goals effectively and efficiently in a theatrical production.

Reason effectively to analyze and craft theatrical productions using technical theatre knowledge to refine artistic choices across all elements of the theatrical production.

Use available technology to refine and create technical designs.

Produce a devised/adapted theatrical production for an audience.

Through the rehearsal process apply theatrical traditions, staging conventions and production analyses to refine a devised/adapted theatrical work for performance.

Through the rehearsal process adapt ideas from research and script analysis to reimagine and transform staging in a performance that is convincing, authentic, and relevant to the concept in a devised/adapted theatrical work for performance.

During the course of the rehearsal process, use available technology to re-imagine and revise technical design choices to enhance the story, emotional impact, and theme of a devised/adapted theatrical work for performance.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Apply provided criteria to make decisions on a script’s selection for performance.

Work creatively with others to decide on and implement original creative artistic choices for a scripted theatrical production using appropriate technical theatre language.

Effectively justify and implement specific acting, vocal, and movement choices to create a convincing character.

Develop and apply researched understandings of directing style(s), design choice(s), and acting method(s), using appropriate technical language, to inform a theatre work.

Apply a variety of researched acting, vocal, and movement techniques, to create convincing character choices

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

In rehearsal, use acting exercises to creatively enhance a performance for a scripted theatrical work.

Solve problems by utilizing and applying theatrical resources for a scripted theatrical work.

Apply technology and implement innovative solutions to enhance a scripted theatrical production.

Develop and use effectively personal warm-ups and rehearsal protocol.

Utilize acting exercises and resources to justify artistic choices while preparing a convincing and meaningful scripted theatrical work.

Research, practice and refine technical skills and employ them in a scripted theatrical production.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Collaborate while managing goals and time to craft a theatrical production.

Produce a play for an audience.

Interact with the audience in a formal reflection activity.

Present a self-reflection on a theatrical work and one’s own contribution to the performance.

Present a scripted theatrical production that applies theatrical knowledge, principles and practices grounded in the creative collaboration of the director, designer(s), actor and dramaturg, for a formal audience and engage in shared reflections.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Reason and communicate effectively the use of societal and theatrical conventions in conveying meaning.

Effectively justify and articulate the use of societal, historical, and theatrical conventions in conveying meaning.

Apply historical and cultural context of societal and theatrical conventions to analyze artistic choices and intent.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Work independently to reason and create an effective relationship between personal aesthetics and artistic choices for a theatrical work.

Reason effectively to identify and critique the artists’ choices and aesthetics within a theatrical work.

Interact effectively with others to synthesize the various artistic points of view and aesthetics of the group to enhance a theatrical work.

Engage appropriately as an audience participant in formal/informal settings.

Develop and justify personal aesthetics and artistic point of view.

Identify and make aesthetic opinions on a theatrical work using personal experience and knowledge of an artist’s intent and style.

Synthesize various personal aesthetics and artistic point of view to critique, refine, and produce a theatrical work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Access information on various criteria used to investigate and explore a theatrical work

Access information on various historical and cultural contexts and use found information to evaluate artistic choices in various theatrical works.

Reason effectively and communicate clearly the relationship between art and life.

Use historical and cultural contexts and the play’s language, style and structure to analyze a theatrical work.

Recognize and analyze varied aesthetic interpretations of the same theatrical work.

Create impactful connections between a theatre work and contemporary issues

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize - Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Expectations

Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life to create meaningful works of art or design.

Identify and communicate reasons to create art outside of school.

Indicators

Access, evaluate, use and manage information to compare similarities and differences in style and technique among schools of art and periods in art history.

Make judgments and decisions to create; inspired by art history and personal connections.

Anchor Standard 11: Relate - Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Expectations

Analyze and evaluate the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society and the society’s impact on the artist.

Indicators

Access, evaluate, use and manage information from a variety of sources and connects art history with personal visions or contemporary issues.

Determine factors that influenced and inspired artists.

Anchor Standard 1: Investigate, Plan, Make - Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Expectations

Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art or design that can elevate the community and influence social change. Apply knowledge of histories and traditions.

Brainstorm ideas to make artwork based on a main/central idea or concept. Following or breaking established conventions, plan the making of a series of works of art or design based on a theme main/central idea or concept.

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Act on creative ideas within the context of a given or chosen art problem.

Utilize media at hand to experiment with process and skills exploring a broad range of ideas.

Anchor Standard 2: Investigate - Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Expectations

Explain the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of various tools, materials, equipment and images in the creation and circulation of art.

Create works of art or design that demonstrates how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.

Apply visual organizational strategies to create works of art and design that clearly communicate main/central idea. Manage projects within sketchbook/journal.

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Implement innovations with objects, places and freedom to design, develop and create artworks.

Develop unique ideas working creatively with others to communicate and advance feelings, ideas, or meaning of works of art.

Identify specific elements of art and principles of design to a global level of perspective.

Anchor Standard 3: Reflect, Refine, Continue - Refine and complete artistic work.

Expectations

Engage in constructive critique to refine works of art and design while considering relevant, traditional, or contemporary criteria and personal artistic vision.

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Present an artwork and/or a series based on a study of form, theme, context, style, and purpose.

Persistently collaborate to revise and refine work through self-critique and reflection.

Anchor Standard 4: Select - Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.

Expectations

Analyze, evaluate, select and justify choices to present a body of artwork that explores curating artwork for a collection, exhibit, event, or portfolio.

Student responsibility for the demonstration of craftsmanship and presentation based on established criteria for a collection, exhibit, event, or portfolio.

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Interact effectively with others to determine factors that influenced the creation of art objects that provide social commentary in historical time and places.

Reflect on the values and beliefs of the society in which they were created.

Act on creative ideas from different times and places.

Work effectively with diverse teams to curate and independently present a body of work (portfolio) that explores a contemporary, cultural, and/or social issue.

Anchor Standard 5: Analyze - Develop and refine artistic work for presentation.

Expectations

Analyze and evaluate the reasons and ways an exhibition is presented.

Compare and contrast methods and criteria used for preserving and protecting art.

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Adapt to change when analyzing artwork based on criteria for presentation or preservation.

Working from memory, observation and or experiences analyze a work that represents personal ideas, thoughts and feelings.

Apply critical thinking and problem solving with use of art vocabulary to describe, analyze and interpret visual qualities perceived and recorded in works of art.

Anchor Standard 6: Share - Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

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Describe the impact an exhibit or collection has on personal, awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.

Curate a grouping of objects, artifacts, or art to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.

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Make judgments and decisions by accessing, evaluating and using information from a variety of sources.

Propose factors that influence artists and inspire artworks.

Communicate clearly cultural values and beliefs, stylistic trends, and technology that have influenced choices to present artwork.

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive - Perceive and analyze artistic work.

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Hypothesize ways visual imagery influences perceptions or affects human experience.

Use historical and contemporary references to determine if an image effectively influences or represents a culture, time, or audience.

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Analyze media used in reflecting on the completed work.

Evaluate the choice and use of media, skills, and knowledge in solving the art problem.

Communicate clearly appropriate art vocabulary to describe, analyze and interpret qualities of visual form evidenced in works of art globally.

Implement innovative responses describing and analyzing the role of design and images in the world.

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret - Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Expectations

Construct and justify meaningful interpretation of an artwork or collection of works supported by evidence through describing and analyzing feelings, subject matter, formal characteristics, art-making approaches, contextual information, and key concepts.

Analyze and comprehend differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works and explain how various interpretations enrich experiences of art and life.

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Make judgments and decisions exploring different criteria and multiple models for judging diverse works of art.

Access, evaluate, use, and manage a selected set of criteria to interpret how artists produce critiques that express personal ideas, thoughts and feelings and of others.

Anchor Standard 9: Analyze - Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Expectations

Establish relevant criteria to evaluate a work or collection of art and determine the relevance of criteria used by others.

Construct evaluations for a work of art or collection of art based on different sets of criteria.

Engage appropriately as audience participants in formal and informal settings.

Indicators

Analyze and evaluate artwork based on select criteria.

Determine the value of unique combinations of formal criteria, purpose and expression of contemporary artists.

Make aesthetic judgments and decisions to evaluate a work of art based on various criteria.

Think creatively inspired by diverse cultural beliefs and values, trends and technical innovations that influence personal artistic choices.