Seventh Grade

CONNECT: Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE: Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

PRESENT: Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND: Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

Relate visual arts ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Explore advancements in the ?eld of visual arts.

Create original visual arts ideas and 2-D and 3-D artworks, including drawing, painting, printmaking, ?bers, sculpture, ceramics, and digital media, using tools safely and appropriately, independently or collaboratively.

Adapt original visual arts ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Present visual artworks.

Develop visual arts presentations.

Analyze visual artworks from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres using content-speci?c vocabulary.

Evaluate visual artworks using content-speci?c vocabulary.

Analyze how individuals and groups of artists have in?uenced various cultures.

Identify how the application of skills and information from other content areas can aid in solving different types of artistic problems.

Identify art skills, characteristics, and behaviors that contribute to success in post-secondary education and career readiness.

Identify how various tools and innovations can be used to create, edit, and present visual images for media or the immediate environment.

Use methods and approaches in media, techniques, and processes in both traditional and non-traditional ways.

Create original art emphasizing selected Elements of Art and Principles of Design to express ideas, feelings, or personal experiences.

Adapt imagery of another artist's work by changing the tools or media.

Identify the legal and ethical issues for creating derivative art.

Revise artwork by applying instructor or peer feedback.

Create an artist statement considering multiple perspectives.

Organize personal artwork that illustrates a variety of skills.

Compare how different methods of display in?uence the experience of the viewer.

Identify the de?ning characteristics of contemporary art that distinguish it from other art movements or periods.

Describe how visual literacy skills and personal experiences in?uence interpretations of visual artworks.

Compare personal preferences for multiple works of art.

Critique artwork based on given criteria.