State Core Standards
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Making
Standard 1
Students will assemble and create ceramics by manipulating art media and by organizing images the elements and principles.
Objective 1
Explore, understand, refine techniques and processes in a variety of media.
- Experience and control a variety of ceramic media, including current arts-related technologies.
- Select and analyze the expressive potential of ceramic media, techniques, and processes.
- Practice safe and responsible use of art media, equipment, and studio space.
Create ceramics using art elements and principles.
- Create expressive ceramics using art elements, including form, shape, negative space, and texture.
- Create expressive works of art using principles to organize the art elements, including contrast, repetition, balance, and unity.
Perceiving
Standard 2
Students will find meaning by analyzing, criticizing, and evaluating ceramics.
Objective 1
Critique ceramics works.
- Analyze ceramic works regarding use of art elements and principles.
- Examine the functions of ceramics.
- Interpret ceramic works.
Evaluate ceramics.
- Analyze and compare ceramic works using a variety of aesthetic approaches.
- Evaluate ceramics based on forming techniques, effective use of art elements and principles, fulfillment of functions, impact of content, expressive qualities, and aesthetic significance.
Expressing
Standard 3
Students will create meaning in ceramics.
Objective 1
Create content in ceramics.
- Identify subject matter, metaphor, themes, symbols, and content in ceramics.
- Create ceramics that effectively communicate subject matter, metaphor, themes, symbols, or individually conceived content.
- Create divergent, novel, or individually inspired applications of ceramic media or art elements and principles that express content.
Curate ceramics ordered by medium and content.
- Organize a portfolio that expresses a purpose such as mastery of a medium, objectives of this Core, or significant content.
- Exhibit ceramics selected by themes such as mastery of a medium, Core objectives, and significant content.
Contextualizing
Standard 4
Students will find meaning in ceramics through settings and other modes of learning.
Objective 1
Align ceramics according to history, geography, and personal experience.
- Use visual characteristics to group ceramic works into historical, social, and cultural contexts; e.g., cubist view of the Egyptians, tenebrism of the Baroque.
- Analyze the impact of time, place, and culture on ceramics.
- Evaluate own relationship with artworks from various periods in history.
Synthesize ceramics with other educational subjects.
- Integrate the ceramics with dance, music, and theater.
- Explore how ceramics can be integrated across disciplines.
Evaluate the impact of ceramics on life outside of school.
- Examine careers related to ceramics.
- Predict how ceramics can add quality to life and lifelong learning.