Visual Arts Critical Concepts
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- Anchor Standard #1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
- Anchor Standard #2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
- Anchor Standard #3. Refine and complete artistic work.
- Anchor Standard #4. Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.
- Anchor Standard #5. Develop and refine artistic work for presentation.
- Anchor Standard #6. Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
- Anchor Standard #7. Perceive and analyze artistic work.
- Anchor Standard #8. Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
- Anchor Standard #9. Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
- Anchor Standard #10. Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
- Anchor Standard #11. Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.
California Visual & Media Arts Standards
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Cn10
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: : Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
Essential Question(s): How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
a. Synthesize internal and external resources, such as cultural connections, introspection, independent research, and exemplary works, to enhance the creation of compelling media artworks. b. Explain and demonstrate the use of media artworks to synthesize new meaning and knowledge in addition to reflecting and forming cultural experiences, such as new connections between themes and ideas and personal influence.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Cn11
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
a. Examine in depth and demonstrate the relationships of media arts ideas and works to various contexts, purposes, and values, such as markets, systems, propaganda, and truth. b. Critically investigate and proactively interact with legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts, considering civic values, media literacy, digital identity, and artist/audience interactivity.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Cr1
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive
Performance Standard(s):
Strategically utilize generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, and refine artistic goals to increase originality in media arts creation processes.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Cr2
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists organize and develop ideas and models into process structures to achieve the desired end product?
Process Component(s): Develop
Performance Standard(s):
Apply a personal aesthetic in designing, testing, and refining original artistic ideas, prototypes, and production strategies for media arts productions, considering artistic intentions, constraints of resources, and presentation context.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Pr4
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate
Performance Standard(s):
Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and academic content into unified media arts productions, such as transmedia productions, that retain thematic integrity and stylistic consistency.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Pr5
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice
Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate effective command of artistic, design, technical and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks. b. Demonstrate creative, and innovative abilities, such as resisting closure and responsive use of failure, to effectively address sophisticated challenges within and through media arts productions.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Pr6
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Design the effective presentation and promotion of media artworks for a variety of formats and contexts, such as local exhibits, mass markets and virtual channels.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Re7
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze and explain the qualities of and relationships between the components, form and content, aesthetics, intentions and contexts of a variety of media artworks. b. Analyze and explain how diverse media artworks manage audience experience and create intention and persuasion through multimodal perception.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Re8
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent, meanings, and influence of a variety of media artworks, based on personal, societal, historical, and cultural contexts.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Re9
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Form and apply defensible evaluations in the constructive and systematic critique of media artworks and production processes.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Cn10
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: : Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
Essential Question(s): How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
a. Independently and proactively access relevant and qualitative resources to inform the creation of cogent media artworks. b. Demonstrate and expound on the use of media artworks to consummate new meaning, knowledge, and impactful cultural experiences.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Cn11
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate the relationships of media arts ideas and works to personal and global contexts, purposes, and values, through relevant and impactful media artworks. b. Critically investigate and strategically interact with legal, technological, systemic, cultural and vocational contexts of media arts considering the impacts upon individuals and the community.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Cr1
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive
Performance Standard(s):
Integrate aesthetic principles with a variety of generative methods to fluently form original ideas, solutions, and innovations in media arts creation processes.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Cr2
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists organize and develop ideas and models into process structures to achieve the desired end product?
Process Component(s): Develop
Performance Standard(s):
Integrate a sophisticated personal aesthetic and knowledge of systems processes in proposing, forming, and testing original artistic ideas, prototypes, and production frameworks, considering complex constraints of goals, time, resources, and personal limitations.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Cr3
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work
Enduring Understanding: The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles, and processes creates purpose, meaning, and artistic quality in media artworks.
Essential Question(s): What is required to produce a media artwork that conveys purpose, meaning, and artistic quality? How do media artists refine their work?
Process Component(s): Construct
Performance Standard(s):
a. Synthesize content, processes, and components to express compelling purpose, story, emotion, or ideas in complex media arts productions, demonstrating mastery of associated aesthetic principles, such as hybridization. b. Intentionally and consistently refine and elaborate elements and components to form impactful expressions in media artworks, directed at specific purposes, audiences, and contexts.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Pr4
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate
Performance Standard(s):
Synthesize various arts, media arts forms, and academic content into unified media arts productions, such as transdisciplinary productions, that retain artistic fidelity across platforms.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Pr5
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice
Performance Standard(s):
a. Employ mastered artistic, design, technical, and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks. b. Fluently employ creativity and innovation in formulating lines of inquiry and solutions to address complex challenges within and through media arts productions.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Pr6
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Curate, design, and promote the presentation of media artworks for intentional impacts, through a variety of contexts, such as markets and venues.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Re7
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze and synthesize the qualities and relationships of the components and the audience impact in a variety of media artworks. b. Examine diverse media artworks, analyzing methods for managing audience experience, creating intention and persuasion through multimodal perception, and systemic communications.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Re8
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent, meanings and impacts of diverse media artworks, considering complex factors of context and bias.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Re9
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Independently develop rigorous evaluations of, and strategically seek feedback for, media artworks and production processes, considering complex goals and factors.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Cn10
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: : Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
Essential Question(s): How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
a. Access, evaluate, and integrate personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural experiences, to inform the creation of original media artworks. b. Explain and demonstrate the use of media artworks to expand meaning and knowledge, and create cultural experiences, such as learning and sharing through local and global networks.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Cn11
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate and explain how media artworks and ideas relate to various contexts, purposes, and values, such as social trends, power, equality, and personal/cultural identity. b. Critically evaluate and effectively interact with legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts, considering civic values, media literacy, social media, virtual environments, and digital identity.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Cr1
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive
Performance Standard(s):
Use identified generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, develop artistic goals, and problem solve in media arts creation processes.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Cr2
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists organize and develop ideas and models into process structures to achieve the desired end product?
Process Component(s): Develop
Performance Standard(s):
Apply aesthetic criteria in developing, and refining artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering original inspirations, goals, and presentation context.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Pr4
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate
Performance Standard(s):
Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience and experiential design.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Pr5
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice
Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate progression in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, as a result of selecting and fulfilling specified roles in the production of a variety of media artworks. b. Develop and refine a determined range of creative and innovative abilities, such as applications of tools, risk taking and design thinking, in addressing identified challenges and constraints within and through media arts productions.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Pr6
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Design the presentation of media artworks, considering the relationships of formats and contexts, and desired outcomes.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Re7
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze and describe the qualities of and relationships between the components, content, and intentions of various media artworks. b. Analyze how a variety of media artworks manage audience experience and create intention through multimodal perception.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Re8
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent, meanings, and reception of a variety of media artworks, focusing on personal and cultural contexts.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Re9
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Evaluate media art works and production processes at decisive stages, using identified criteria, and considering context and artistic goals.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Essential Question(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through artmaking.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Question(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
Compare uses of art in a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts and make connections to uses of art in contemporary, local and global contexts.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr1.1
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.1 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr1.2
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.2 Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr2.1
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.1 Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr2.2
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.2 Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Essential Question(s): How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the free
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr2.3
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.3 People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Essential Question(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that communicate effectively?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr3
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise
Performance Standard(s):
Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, reengage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Pr4
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Essential Question(s): How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Process Component(s): Select, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Pr5
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What methods, processes and criteria are considered when preparing artwork for presentation, preservation, portfolio, or collection? How does assessing choices for presentation affect its meaning to the viewer?
Process Component(s): Prepare
Performance Standard(s):
Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Pr6
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks that are collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Re7.1
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.1 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.
Essential Question(s): How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Re7.2
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.2 Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Question(s): What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?
Process Component(s): Perceive, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Re8
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question(s): What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Re9
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Essential Question(s): How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Determine the relevance of criteria used by others to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Question(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
Assess the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Essential Question(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr1.1
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.1 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr1.2
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.2 Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr2.1
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.1 Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr2.2
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.2 Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Essential Question(s): How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the free
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr2.3
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.3 People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Essential Question(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that communicate effectively?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people's lives.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr3
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise
Performance Standard(s):
Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Pr4
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Essential Question(s): How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Process Component(s): Select, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Pr5
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What methods, processes and criteria are considered when preparing artwork for presentation, preservation, portfolio, or collection? How does assessing choices for presentation affect its meaning to the viewer?
Process Component(s): Prepare
Performance Standard(s):
Investigate, compare, and contrast methods and processes for preserving, presenting, and protecting a variety of art works.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Pr6
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks that are collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Re7.1
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.1 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.
Essential Question(s): How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Re7.2
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.2 Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Question(s): What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?
Process Component(s): Perceive, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Re8
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question(s): What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Re9
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Essential Question(s): How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Essential Question(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
Document the process of developing early stage ideas to fully elaborated ideas.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Question(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
Describe how knowledge of culture, traditions, and history may influence personal responses to art.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr1.1
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.1 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr1.2
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.2 Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr2.1
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.1 Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr2.2
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.2 Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Essential Question(s): How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the free
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Explain how traditional and nontraditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr2.3
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.3 People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Essential Question(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that communicate effectively?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Collaboratively develop a proposal for an installation, artwork, or space design that transforms the perception and experience of a particular place.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr3
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise
Performance Standard(s):
Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Pr4
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Essential Question(s): How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Process Component(s): Select, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Pr5
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What methods, processes and criteria are considered when preparing artwork for presentation, preservation, portfolio, or collection? How does assessing choices for presentation affect its meaning to the viewer?
Process Component(s): Prepare
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze and evaluate the reasons and ways an exhibition is presented.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Pr6
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks that are collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Re7.1
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.1 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.
Essential Question(s): How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Re7.2
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.2 Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Question(s): What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?
Process Component(s): Perceive, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Re8
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question(s): What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Re9
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Essential Question(s): How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
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Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: : Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
Essential Question(s): How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
a. Synthesize internal and external resources, such as cultural connections, introspection, independent research, and exemplary works, to enhance the creation of compelling media artworks. b. Explain and demonstrate the use of media artworks to synthesize new meaning and knowledge in addition to reflecting and forming cultural experiences, such as new connections between themes and ideas and personal influence.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Cn11
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
a. Examine in depth and demonstrate the relationships of media arts ideas and works to various contexts, purposes, and values, such as markets, systems, propaganda, and truth. b. Critically investigate and proactively interact with legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts, considering civic values, media literacy, digital identity, and artist/audience interactivity.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Cr1
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive
Performance Standard(s):
Strategically utilize generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, and refine artistic goals to increase originality in media arts creation processes.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Cr2
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists organize and develop ideas and models into process structures to achieve the desired end product?
Process Component(s): Develop
Performance Standard(s):
Apply a personal aesthetic in designing, testing, and refining original artistic ideas, prototypes, and production strategies for media arts productions, considering artistic intentions, constraints of resources, and presentation context.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Pr4
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate
Performance Standard(s):
Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and academic content into unified media arts productions, such as transmedia productions, that retain thematic integrity and stylistic consistency.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Pr5
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice
Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate effective command of artistic, design, technical and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks. b. Demonstrate creative, and innovative abilities, such as resisting closure and responsive use of failure, to effectively address sophisticated challenges within and through media arts productions.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Pr6
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Design the effective presentation and promotion of media artworks for a variety of formats and contexts, such as local exhibits, mass markets and virtual channels.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Re7
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze and explain the qualities of and relationships between the components, form and content, aesthetics, intentions and contexts of a variety of media artworks. b. Analyze and explain how diverse media artworks manage audience experience and create intention and persuasion through multimodal perception.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Re8
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent, meanings, and influence of a variety of media artworks, based on personal, societal, historical, and cultural contexts.
Standard Identifier: Acc.MA:Re9
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Form and apply defensible evaluations in the constructive and systematic critique of media artworks and production processes.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Cn10
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: : Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
Essential Question(s): How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
a. Independently and proactively access relevant and qualitative resources to inform the creation of cogent media artworks. b. Demonstrate and expound on the use of media artworks to consummate new meaning, knowledge, and impactful cultural experiences.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Cn11
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate the relationships of media arts ideas and works to personal and global contexts, purposes, and values, through relevant and impactful media artworks. b. Critically investigate and strategically interact with legal, technological, systemic, cultural and vocational contexts of media arts considering the impacts upon individuals and the community.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Cr1
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive
Performance Standard(s):
Integrate aesthetic principles with a variety of generative methods to fluently form original ideas, solutions, and innovations in media arts creation processes.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Cr2
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists organize and develop ideas and models into process structures to achieve the desired end product?
Process Component(s): Develop
Performance Standard(s):
Integrate a sophisticated personal aesthetic and knowledge of systems processes in proposing, forming, and testing original artistic ideas, prototypes, and production frameworks, considering complex constraints of goals, time, resources, and personal limitations.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Cr3
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work
Enduring Understanding: The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles, and processes creates purpose, meaning, and artistic quality in media artworks.
Essential Question(s): What is required to produce a media artwork that conveys purpose, meaning, and artistic quality? How do media artists refine their work?
Process Component(s): Construct
Performance Standard(s):
a. Synthesize content, processes, and components to express compelling purpose, story, emotion, or ideas in complex media arts productions, demonstrating mastery of associated aesthetic principles, such as hybridization. b. Intentionally and consistently refine and elaborate elements and components to form impactful expressions in media artworks, directed at specific purposes, audiences, and contexts.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Pr4
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate
Performance Standard(s):
Synthesize various arts, media arts forms, and academic content into unified media arts productions, such as transdisciplinary productions, that retain artistic fidelity across platforms.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Pr5
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice
Performance Standard(s):
a. Employ mastered artistic, design, technical, and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks. b. Fluently employ creativity and innovation in formulating lines of inquiry and solutions to address complex challenges within and through media arts productions.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Pr6
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Curate, design, and promote the presentation of media artworks for intentional impacts, through a variety of contexts, such as markets and venues.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Re7
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze and synthesize the qualities and relationships of the components and the audience impact in a variety of media artworks. b. Examine diverse media artworks, analyzing methods for managing audience experience, creating intention and persuasion through multimodal perception, and systemic communications.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Re8
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent, meanings and impacts of diverse media artworks, considering complex factors of context and bias.
Standard Identifier: Adv.MA:Re9
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Independently develop rigorous evaluations of, and strategically seek feedback for, media artworks and production processes, considering complex goals and factors.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Cn10
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: : Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
Essential Question(s): How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
a. Access, evaluate, and integrate personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural experiences, to inform the creation of original media artworks. b. Explain and demonstrate the use of media artworks to expand meaning and knowledge, and create cultural experiences, such as learning and sharing through local and global networks.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Cn11
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate and explain how media artworks and ideas relate to various contexts, purposes, and values, such as social trends, power, equality, and personal/cultural identity. b. Critically evaluate and effectively interact with legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts, considering civic values, media literacy, social media, virtual environments, and digital identity.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Cr1
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive
Performance Standard(s):
Use identified generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, develop artistic goals, and problem solve in media arts creation processes.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Cr2
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists organize and develop ideas and models into process structures to achieve the desired end product?
Process Component(s): Develop
Performance Standard(s):
Apply aesthetic criteria in developing, and refining artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering original inspirations, goals, and presentation context.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Pr4
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate
Performance Standard(s):
Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience and experiential design.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Pr5
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice
Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate progression in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, as a result of selecting and fulfilling specified roles in the production of a variety of media artworks. b. Develop and refine a determined range of creative and innovative abilities, such as applications of tools, risk taking and design thinking, in addressing identified challenges and constraints within and through media arts productions.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Pr6
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Design the presentation of media artworks, considering the relationships of formats and contexts, and desired outcomes.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Re7
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze and describe the qualities of and relationships between the components, content, and intentions of various media artworks. b. Analyze how a variety of media artworks manage audience experience and create intention through multimodal perception.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Re8
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent, meanings, and reception of a variety of media artworks, focusing on personal and cultural contexts.
Standard Identifier: Prof.MA:Re9
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Evaluate media art works and production processes at decisive stages, using identified criteria, and considering context and artistic goals.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Essential Question(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through artmaking.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Question(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
Compare uses of art in a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts and make connections to uses of art in contemporary, local and global contexts.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr1.1
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.1 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr1.2
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.2 Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr2.1
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.1 Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr2.2
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.2 Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Essential Question(s): How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the free
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr2.3
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.3 People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Essential Question(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that communicate effectively?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Cr3
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise
Performance Standard(s):
Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, reengage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Pr4
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Essential Question(s): How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Process Component(s): Select, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Pr5
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What methods, processes and criteria are considered when preparing artwork for presentation, preservation, portfolio, or collection? How does assessing choices for presentation affect its meaning to the viewer?
Process Component(s): Prepare
Performance Standard(s):
Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Pr6
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks that are collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Re7.1
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.1 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.
Essential Question(s): How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Re7.2
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.2 Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Question(s): What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?
Process Component(s): Perceive, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Re8
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question(s): What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.
Standard Identifier: Acc.VA:Re9
Grade Range: Accomplished
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Essential Question(s): How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Determine the relevance of criteria used by others to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Question(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
Assess the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Essential Question(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr1.1
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.1 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr1.2
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.2 Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr2.1
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.1 Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr2.2
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.2 Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Essential Question(s): How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the free
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr2.3
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.3 People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Essential Question(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that communicate effectively?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people's lives.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Cr3
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise
Performance Standard(s):
Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Pr4
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Essential Question(s): How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Process Component(s): Select, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Pr5
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What methods, processes and criteria are considered when preparing artwork for presentation, preservation, portfolio, or collection? How does assessing choices for presentation affect its meaning to the viewer?
Process Component(s): Prepare
Performance Standard(s):
Investigate, compare, and contrast methods and processes for preserving, presenting, and protecting a variety of art works.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Pr6
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks that are collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Re7.1
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.1 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.
Essential Question(s): How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Re7.2
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.2 Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Question(s): What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?
Process Component(s): Perceive, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Re8
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question(s): What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.
Standard Identifier: Adv.VA:Re9
Grade Range: Advanced
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Essential Question(s): How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Enduring Understanding: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Essential Question(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Process Component(s): Synthesize
Performance Standard(s):
Document the process of developing early stage ideas to fully elaborated ideas.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cn10
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standard: 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Question(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Process Component(s): Relate
Performance Standard(s):
Describe how knowledge of culture, traditions, and history may influence personal responses to art.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr1.1
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.1 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr1.2
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 1.2 Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make
Performance Standard(s):
Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr2.1
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.1 Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr2.2
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.2 Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Essential Question(s): How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the free
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Explain how traditional and nontraditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr2.3
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: 2.3 People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Essential Question(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that communicate effectively?
Process Component(s): Investigate
Performance Standard(s):
Collaboratively develop a proposal for an installation, artwork, or space design that transforms the perception and experience of a particular place.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Cr3
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise
Performance Standard(s):
Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Pr4
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Essential Question(s): How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Process Component(s): Select, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Pr5
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What methods, processes and criteria are considered when preparing artwork for presentation, preservation, portfolio, or collection? How does assessing choices for presentation affect its meaning to the viewer?
Process Component(s): Prepare
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze and evaluate the reasons and ways an exhibition is presented.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Pr6
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(s): What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks that are collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation
Process Component(s): Present
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Re7.1
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.1 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.
Essential Question(s): How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
Process Component(s): Perceive
Performance Standard(s):
Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Re7.2
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: 7.2 Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Question(s): What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?
Process Component(s): Perceive, Analyze
Performance Standard(s):
Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Re8
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question(s): What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Process Component(s): Interpret
Performance Standard(s):
Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.
Standard Identifier: Prof.VA:Re9
Grade Range: Proficient
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Essential Question(s): How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
Process Component(s): Evaluate
Performance Standard(s):
Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.
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Arts, Media, and Entertainment
Knowledge and Performance Anchor Standards
1.0 Academics
Analyze and apply appropriate academic standards required for successful industry sector pathway
completion leading to postsecondary education and employment. Refer to the Arts, Media, and
Entertainment academic alignment matrix for identification of standards.
2.0 Communications
Acquire and accurately use Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector terminology and protocols at the
career and college readiness level for communicating effectively in oral, written, and multimedia
formats. (Direct alignment with LS 9-10, 11-12.6)
2.1 Recognize the elements of communication using a sender–receiver model.
2.2 Identify barriers to accurate and appropriate communication.
2.3 Interpret verbal and nonverbal communications and respond appropriately.
2.4 Demonstrate elements of written and electronic communication such as accurate spelling,
grammar, and format.
2.5 Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media
and formats.
2.6 Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of digital media information and
communications technologies.
3.0 Career Planning and Management
Integrate multiple sources of career information from diverse formats to make informed career
decisions, solve problems, and manage personal career plans. (Direct alignment with SLS 11-12.2)
3.1 Identify personal interests, aptitudes, information, and skills necessary for informed career
decision making.
3.2 Evaluate personal character traits such as trust, respect, and responsibility and understand
the impact they can have on career success.
3.3 Explore how information and communication technologies are used in career planning and
decision making.
3.4 Research the scope of career opportunities available and the requirements for education,
training, certification, and licensure.
3.5 Integrate changing employment trends, societal needs, and economic conditions into career
planning.
3.6 Recognize the role and function of professional organizations, industry associations, and
organized labor in a productive society.
3.7 Recognize the importance of small business in the California and global economies.
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3.8 Understand how digital media are used by potential employers and postsecondary agencies
to evaluate candidates.
3.9 Develop a career plan that reflects career interests, pathways, and postsecondary options.
4.0 Technology
Use existing and emerging technology to investigate, research, and produce products and services,
including new information, as required in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector workplace
environment. (Direct alignment with WS 11-12.6)
4.1 Use electronic reference materials to gather information and produce products and services.
4.2 Employ Web-based communications responsibly and effectively to explore complex systems
and issues.
4.3 Use information and communication technologies to synthesize, summarize, compare, and
contrast information from multiple sources.
4.4 Discern the quality and value of information collected using digital technologies, and
recognize bias and intent of the associated sources.
4.5 Research past, present, and projected technological advances as they impact a particular
pathway.
4.6 Assess the value of various information and communication technologies to interact with
constituent populations as part of a search of the current literature or in relation to
the information task.
5.0 Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
Conduct short as well as more sustained research to create alternative solutions to answer a
question or solve a problem unique to the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector, using critical and
creative thinking, logical reasoning, analysis, inquiry, and problem-solving techniques. (Direct align-
ment with WS 11-12.7)
5.1 Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view to solve problems.
5.2 Solve predictable and unpredictable work-related problems using various types of reasoning
(inductive, deductive) as appropriate.
5.3 Use systems thinking to analyze how various components interact with each other to produce
outcomes in a complex work environment.
5.4 Interpret information and draw conclusions, based on the best analysis, to make informed
decisions.
6.0 Health and Safety
Demonstrate health and safety procedures, regulations, and personal health practices and determine
the meaning of symbols, key terms, and domain-specific words and phrases as related to the Arts,
Media, and Entertainment sector workplace environment. (Direct alignment with RSTS 9-10, 11-12.4)
6.1 Locate, and adhere to, Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) instructions.
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6.2 Interpret policies, procedures, and regulations for the workplace environment, including
employer and employee responsibilities.
6.3 Use health and safety practices for storing, cleaning, and maintaining tools, equipment,
and supplies.
6.4 Practice personal safety when lifting, bending, or moving equipment and supplies.
6.5 Demonstrate how to prevent and respond to work-related accidents or injuries; this includes
demonstrating an understanding of ergonomics.
6.6 Maintain a safe and healthful working environment.
6.7 Be informed of laws/acts pertaining to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA).
7.0 Responsibility and Flexibility
Initiate, and participate in, a range of collaborations demonstrating behaviors that reflect personal
and professional responsibility, flexibility, and respect in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector
workplace environment and community settings. (Direct alignment with SLS 9-10, 11-12.1)
7.1 Recognize how financial management impacts the economy, workforce, and community.
7.2 Explain the importance of accountability and responsibility in fulfilling personal, community,
and workplace roles.
7.3 Understand the need to adapt to changing and varied roles and responsibilities.
7.4 Practice time management and efficiency to fulfill responsibilities.
7.5 Apply high-quality techniques to product or presentation design and development.
7.6 Demonstrate knowledge and practice of responsible financial management.
7.7 Demonstrate the qualities and behaviors that constitute a positive and professional work
demeanor, including appropriate attire for the profession.
7.8 Explore issues of global significance and document the impact on the Arts, Media, and
Entertainment sector.
8.0 Ethics and Legal Responsibilities
Practice professional, ethical, and legal behavior, responding thoughtfully to diverse perspectives and
resolving contradictions when possible, consistent with applicable laws, regulations, and organiza-
tional norms. (Direct alignment with SLS 11-12.1d)
8.1 Access, analyze, and implement quality assurance standards of practice.
8.2 Identify local, district, state, and federal regulatory agencies, entities, laws, and regulations
related to the Arts, Media, and Entertainment industry sector.
8.3 Demonstrate ethical and legal practices consistent with Arts, Media, and Entertainment
sector workplace standards.
8.4 Explain the importance of personal integrity, confidentiality, and ethical behavior in the
workplace.
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8.5 Analyze organizational culture and practices within the workplace environment.
8.6 Adhere to copyright and intellectual property laws and regulations, and use and appropriately
cite proprietary information.
8.7 Conform to rules and regulations regarding sharing of confidential information, as determined
by Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector laws and practices.
9.0 Leadership and Teamwork
Work with peers to promote divergent and creative perspectives, effective leadership, group
dynamics, team and individual decision making, benefits of workforce diversity, and conflict resolu-
tion as practiced in the SkillsUSA career technical student organizations. (Direct alignment with SLS
11-12.1b)
9.1 Define leadership and identify the responsibilities, competencies, and behaviors of successful
leaders.
9.2 Identify the characteristics of successful teams, including leadership, cooperation, collabora-
tion, and effective decision-making skills as applied in groups, teams, and career technical
student organization activities.
9.3 Understand the characteristics and benefits of teamwork, leadership, and citizenship in the
school, community, and workplace setting.
9.4 Explain how professional associations and organizations and associated leadership develop-
ment and competitive career development activities enhance academic preparation, promote
career choices, and contribute to employment opportunities.
9.5 Understand that the modern world is an international community and requires an expanded
global view.
9.6 Respect individual and cultural differences and recognize the importance of diversity in the
workplace.
9.7 Participate in interactive teamwork to solve real Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector issues
and problems.
10.0 Technical Knowledge and Skills
Apply essential technical knowledge and skills common to all pathways in the Arts, Media, and
Entertainment sector, following procedures when carrying out experiments or performing technical
tasks. (Direct alignment with WS 11-12.6)
10.1 Interpret and explain terminology and practices specific to the Arts, Media, and Entertain-
ment sector.
10.2 Comply with the rules, regulations, and expectations of all aspects of the Arts, Media, and
Entertainment sector.
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10.3 Construct projects and products specific to the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector
requirements and expectations.
10.4 Collaborate with industry experts for specific technical knowledge and skills.
11.0 Demonstration and Application
Demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills contained in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment
anchor standards, pathway standards, and performance indicators in classroom, laboratory, and
workplace settings, and through the SkillsUSA career technical student organizations.
11.1 Utilize work-based/workplace learning experiences to demonstrate and expand upon knowl-
edge and skills gained during classroom instruction and laboratory practices specific to the
Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector program of study.
11.2 Demonstrate proficiency in a career technical pathway that leads to certification, licensure,
and/or continued learning at the postsecondary level.
11.3 Demonstrate entrepreneurship skills and knowledge of self-employment options and innovative
ventures.
11.4 Employ entrepreneurial practices and behaviors appropriate to Arts, Media, and Entertainment
sector opportunities.
11.5 Create a portfolio, or similar collection of work, that offers evidence through assessment and
evaluation of skills and knowledge competency as contained in the anchor standards, pathway
standards, and performance indicators.
Arts, Media, and Entertainment
Knowledge and Performance Anchor Standards
1.0 Academics
Analyze and apply appropriate academic standards required for successful industry sector pathway
completion leading to postsecondary education and employment. Refer to the Arts, Media, and
Entertainment academic alignment matrix for identification of standards.
2.0 Communications
Acquire and accurately use Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector terminology and protocols at the
career and college readiness level for communicating effectively in oral, written, and multimedia
formats. (Direct alignment with LS 9-10, 11-12.6)
2.1 Recognize the elements of communication using a sender–receiver model.
2.2 Identify barriers to accurate and appropriate communication.
2.3 Interpret verbal and nonverbal communications and respond appropriately.
2.4 Demonstrate elements of written and electronic communication such as accurate spelling,
grammar, and format.
2.5 Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media
and formats.
2.6 Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of digital media information and
communications technologies.
3.0 Career Planning and Management
Integrate multiple sources of career information from diverse formats to make informed career
decisions, solve problems, and manage personal career plans. (Direct alignment with SLS 11-12.2)
3.1 Identify personal interests, aptitudes, information, and skills necessary for informed career
decision making.
3.2 Evaluate personal character traits such as trust, respect, and responsibility and understand
the impact they can have on career success.
3.3 Explore how information and communication technologies are used in career planning and
decision making.
3.4 Research the scope of career opportunities available and the requirements for education,
training, certification, and licensure.
3.5 Integrate changing employment trends, societal needs, and economic conditions into career
planning.
3.6 Recognize the role and function of professional organizations, industry associations, and
organized labor in a productive society.
3.7 Recognize the importance of small business in the California and global economies.
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3.8 Understand how digital media are used by potential employers and postsecondary agencies
to evaluate candidates.
3.9 Develop a career plan that reflects career interests, pathways, and postsecondary options.
4.0 Technology
Use existing and emerging technology to investigate, research, and produce products and services,
including new information, as required in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector workplace
environment. (Direct alignment with WS 11-12.6)
4.1 Use electronic reference materials to gather information and produce products and services.
4.2 Employ Web-based communications responsibly and effectively to explore complex systems
and issues.
4.3 Use information and communication technologies to synthesize, summarize, compare, and
contrast information from multiple sources.
4.4 Discern the quality and value of information collected using digital technologies, and
recognize bias and intent of the associated sources.
4.5 Research past, present, and projected technological advances as they impact a particular
pathway.
4.6 Assess the value of various information and communication technologies to interact with
constituent populations as part of a search of the current literature or in relation to
the information task.
5.0 Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
Conduct short as well as more sustained research to create alternative solutions to answer a
question or solve a problem unique to the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector, using critical and
creative thinking, logical reasoning, analysis, inquiry, and problem-solving techniques. (Direct align-
ment with WS 11-12.7)
5.1 Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view to solve problems.
5.2 Solve predictable and unpredictable work-related problems using various types of reasoning
(inductive, deductive) as appropriate.
5.3 Use systems thinking to analyze how various components interact with each other to produce
outcomes in a complex work environment.
5.4 Interpret information and draw conclusions, based on the best analysis, to make informed
decisions.
6.0 Health and Safety
Demonstrate health and safety procedures, regulations, and personal health practices and determine
the meaning of symbols, key terms, and domain-specific words and phrases as related to the Arts,
Media, and Entertainment sector workplace environment. (Direct alignment with RSTS 9-10, 11-12.4)
6.1 Locate, and adhere to, Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) instructions.
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6.2 Interpret policies, procedures, and regulations for the workplace environment, including
employer and employee responsibilities.
6.3 Use health and safety practices for storing, cleaning, and maintaining tools, equipment,
and supplies.
6.4 Practice personal safety when lifting, bending, or moving equipment and supplies.
6.5 Demonstrate how to prevent and respond to work-related accidents or injuries; this includes
demonstrating an understanding of ergonomics.
6.6 Maintain a safe and healthful working environment.
6.7 Be informed of laws/acts pertaining to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA).
7.0 Responsibility and Flexibility
Initiate, and participate in, a range of collaborations demonstrating behaviors that reflect personal
and professional responsibility, flexibility, and respect in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector
workplace environment and community settings. (Direct alignment with SLS 9-10, 11-12.1)
7.1 Recognize how financial management impacts the economy, workforce, and community.
7.2 Explain the importance of accountability and responsibility in fulfilling personal, community,
and workplace roles.
7.3 Understand the need to adapt to changing and varied roles and responsibilities.
7.4 Practice time management and efficiency to fulfill responsibilities.
7.5 Apply high-quality techniques to product or presentation design and development.
7.6 Demonstrate knowledge and practice of responsible financial management.
7.7 Demonstrate the qualities and behaviors that constitute a positive and professional work
demeanor, including appropriate attire for the profession.
7.8 Explore issues of global significance and document the impact on the Arts, Media, and
Entertainment sector.
8.0 Ethics and Legal Responsibilities
Practice professional, ethical, and legal behavior, responding thoughtfully to diverse perspectives and
resolving contradictions when possible, consistent with applicable laws, regulations, and organiza-
tional norms. (Direct alignment with SLS 11-12.1d)
8.1 Access, analyze, and implement quality assurance standards of practice.
8.2 Identify local, district, state, and federal regulatory agencies, entities, laws, and regulations
related to the Arts, Media, and Entertainment industry sector.
8.3 Demonstrate ethical and legal practices consistent with Arts, Media, and Entertainment
sector workplace standards.
8.4 Explain the importance of personal integrity, confidentiality, and ethical behavior in the
workplace.
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8.5 Analyze organizational culture and practices within the workplace environment.
8.6 Adhere to copyright and intellectual property laws and regulations, and use and appropriately
cite proprietary information.
8.7 Conform to rules and regulations regarding sharing of confidential information, as determined
by Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector laws and practices.
9.0 Leadership and Teamwork
Work with peers to promote divergent and creative perspectives, effective leadership, group
dynamics, team and individual decision making, benefits of workforce diversity, and conflict resolu-
tion as practiced in the SkillsUSA career technical student organizations. (Direct alignment with SLS
11-12.1b)
9.1 Define leadership and identify the responsibilities, competencies, and behaviors of successful
leaders.
9.2 Identify the characteristics of successful teams, including leadership, cooperation, collabora-
tion, and effective decision-making skills as applied in groups, teams, and career technical
student organization activities.
9.3 Understand the characteristics and benefits of teamwork, leadership, and citizenship in the
school, community, and workplace setting.
9.4 Explain how professional associations and organizations and associated leadership develop-
ment and competitive career development activities enhance academic preparation, promote
career choices, and contribute to employment opportunities.
9.5 Understand that the modern world is an international community and requires an expanded
global view.
9.6 Respect individual and cultural differences and recognize the importance of diversity in the
workplace.
9.7 Participate in interactive teamwork to solve real Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector issues
and problems.
10.0 Technical Knowledge and Skills
Apply essential technical knowledge and skills common to all pathways in the Arts, Media, and
Entertainment sector, following procedures when carrying out experiments or performing technical
tasks. (Direct alignment with WS 11-12.6)
10.1 Interpret and explain terminology and practices specific to the Arts, Media, and Entertain-
ment sector.
10.2 Comply with the rules, regulations, and expectations of all aspects of the Arts, Media, and
Entertainment sector.
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10.3 Construct projects and products specific to the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector
requirements and expectations.
10.4 Collaborate with industry experts for specific technical knowledge and skills.
11.0 Demonstration and Application
Demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills contained in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment
anchor standards, pathway standards, and performance indicators in classroom, laboratory, and
workplace settings, and through the SkillsUSA career technical student organizations.
11.1 Utilize work-based/workplace learning experiences to demonstrate and expand upon knowl-
edge and skills gained during classroom instruction and laboratory practices specific to the
Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector program of study.
11.2 Demonstrate proficiency in a career technical pathway that leads to certification, licensure,
and/or continued learning at the postsecondary level.
11.3 Demonstrate entrepreneurship skills and knowledge of self-employment options and innovative
ventures.
11.4 Employ entrepreneurial practices and behaviors appropriate to Arts, Media, and Entertainment
sector opportunities.
11.5 Create a portfolio, or similar collection of work, that offers evidence through assessment and
evaluation of skills and knowledge competency as contained in the anchor standards, pathway
standards, and performance indicators.