Our community is filled with bright and creative children with important ideas. The objective of the art program is to provide a learning environment that challenges these students to solve problems and discover their individual creative powers.

Through sequential experiences, students are offered opportunities to develop to the fullest extent of their capabilities, to demonstrate cognitive and artistic growth, and to advance according to identified expectancies at different instructional levels.

The curriculum has been developed to encourage critical and analytical thinking and to develop skills that make connections to both the student's own life and other subject areas. The visual arts curriculum encourages divergent thinking and creative exploration, which helps students make sense of our increasingly visual world.

Visual Arts Essential Learner Outcomes:

• Perceiving and Responding - Aesthetic Education: The student will demonstrate the ability to perceive, interpret, and respond to ideas, experiences, and the environment through the visual arts.
• Historical, Cultural and Social Contexts: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the visual arts as a basic aspect of history and human experience.
• Creative Expressions and Production: The student will demonstrate the ability to organize knowledge and ideas for expression in the production of art.
• Aesthetic Criticism: The student will demonstrate the ability to identify, analyze and apply criteria for making visual aesthetic judgments.