Art Making Students manipulate and explore the expressive potential of different combinations and arrangements of visual elements. Students demonstrate the appropriate and safe use of a variety of art materials and technologies. Students develop innovative ways to exploit the potential of materials and technologies. Students use simple techniques for collecting, displaying, exhibiting, preserving, and evaluating their artworks. Students give examples of purposes that art serves in different cultures and times.
Students compare multiple, overlapping art-related values and activities within one culture.
Students seek information about the intentions of people who have made art in other times and cultures. Students construct interpretations that are appropriate for the cultural-historical context in which artworks were made. Students give examples of how a culture's artworks have been influenced by contact with another culture. Students analyze social and cultural influences on their own perception and understanding of artworks from various times and cultures. Students discuss how the meaning and value of an object or artwork can change when it is moved from one culture to another or viewed at a later time.