Grades PK-2

Students will:

• experiment with a variety of basic art media such as pencil, crayon, oil pastels, chalk, watercolor, tempera, mixed media, clay, found objects;

• categorize a variety of art works based on media;

• strengthen fine and gross motor skills through drawing, painting, coloring, cutting, gluing, modeling, printing and weaving;

• explore methods through line drawings, textural rubbings; painting techniques such as wet on wet, salt painting, crayon resist; basic printmaking such as monoprint; cut and glue activities, manipulating paper, basic weaving, color mixing, pinch method in clay, assemblage;

• explain the difference between two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art discuss media and methods of well known artists and styles such as da Vinci, Mondrian, van Gogh, Monet, Miro, Matisse, Degas, Picasso, Homer, Bearden, Hokusai, Kahlo, Cassatt, O'Keeffe.

Grades 3-5

Students will:

• categorize art reproductions according to art form, media, movement and style of art;
• select appropriate media, methods and technologies to create art from direct observation, memory, imagination and abstraction;
• select media appropriate to subject matter including but not limited to pencil, charcoal, crayon, ink, markers, oil pastels, chalk pastels, watercolor, tempera, acrylics, mixed media, clay, found objects;
• refine methods and processes through contour, gesture, value drawings, color mixing, painting, etching, printmaking, manipulating paper, weaving, clay modeling, assemblage;
• discuss well known artists, movements and cultural arts, including but not limited to Artists: Bridget Riley, Andy Warhol, Gustave Klimt, Amadeo Modigliani, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Henri Rousseau, Winslow Homer, Faith Ringgold;Movements: Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Pointillism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Realism; Cultural Art: Aboriginal, African, Folk Art, Asian, Oceanic, Latin American;
• use specific vocabulary relating to media, methods and technologies when discussing art

Grades 6-8

Students will:

• apply steps artists use in the production of art: inception of an idea, refinement of an idea, execution in a medium, evaluation of the product;
• review original art and art reproductions and discuss how and why they are different;
• discuss well known artists, movements and cultural arts, including but not limited to Artists: Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Victor Vasarely, Andy Warhol, Paul Klee, Edvard Munch, Georgia O’Keefe, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Faith Ringgold;Movements: Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Pointillism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Regionalism, Realism, Futurism, Op Art, Pop Art; Cultural Art: African, Folk Art, Asian, Islamic Art, Latin American;
• participate in collaborative projects and the exhibition of art within the school and community;
• investigate careers and discuss career options in the field of visual arts