Aspen Community School
VISUAL ARTS standards.
Why study the Visual Arts?
The arts are a result of the unique ability of the human mind to make connections among the basic skills in social relations, natural science, technology, and language. Students learn to integrate knowledge and processes from many subjects to create and understand the world around them. Research has proven that involvement in the arts improves academic test scores.
What are the Visual Arts?
At the Aspen Community School, in addition to traditional drawing, painting, printmaking, fiber arts and sculpting, students learn about things like architecture, folk arts and crafts, computer graphics, and mass media production. We also learn about art history, and questions of aesthetics.
Standards in addition to the Colorado State model content standards in the Visual Arts taught at ACS are as follows.
1. Students recognize and use the visual arts as a form of communication.
2. Students know and apply elements of art, principles of design, and sensory and expressive features of visual arts.
3. Students know and apply visual arts materials, tools, techniques, and processes.
4. Students relate the visual arts to various historical and cultural traditions.
5. Students analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, and meaning of works of art.
6. K-8 Students are familiar with the The Elements of Art: Line, Shape, Form, Color, Value, Texture and Space.
7. 3-8 Students are familiar with the The Principles of Design: Balance, Movement, Rhythm, Contrast, Emphasis, Pattern & Unity.
8. 5-8 students are familiar with 30 specific artists in art history, from visual image recognition, artist facts and names. K-4 students learn about the lives of 5 artists per year.
9. By the time ACS students graduate they know and understand how to sew by hand and possibly machine.
10. Students know and understand how to create art for public statement, current event awareness and community service.
