Visual Arts: Kindergarten

Creating

Presenting

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. 

Perceive and analyze artistic work. 

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. 

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. 

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

INVESTIGATE/PLAN/MAKE

INVESTIGATE

REFLECT/REFINE/CONTINUE

SELECT

PREPARE

SHARE/PRESENT

PERCEIVE

ANALYZE

INTERPRET

SYNTHESIZE

INTERRELATE

Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed. 

Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative goals.

Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches. 

Artists and designers balance experimentation, safety, freedom, and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.

People create and interact with objects, places, and designs that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives. 

Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.

Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects, artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.

Artists, curators, and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it. 

Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.

Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.

Visual imagery influences and understanding of and responses to the world.

People gain insights into the meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.

People evaluate art based on various criteria. 

Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.

People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through interactions with and analysis of art.

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials.

Engage collaboratively and/or individually in creative art-making in response to an artistic problem.

Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making. 

Begin to identify safe and non-toxic art materials, tools, and equipment.

Create art that represents natural and constructed environments. 

Explain the process of making art while creating.

Display and describe personal artwork. 

Explain the purpose of a portfolio or collection.

Explore the purpose of an art museum.

Identify uses of art within one’s environment.

Describe what an image represents.

Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing relevant details.

Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork. 

Create art that tells a story about a life experience. 

Identify the purpose of an artwork.