| The School District 51 Art Heritage Program is designed to meet the Colorado Academic Standards for Visual Arts (2009) |
| 1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend Watch and listen during demonstrations. Look at examples. Observe your world. SEE |
| 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer Art tells a story. Express yourself. Understand others. SHARE |
| 2. Envision and Critique to Reflect Imagine what you can do. Plan how to do it. Do you like it? Can you make it better? THINK |
| 3. Invent and Discover to Create Try and don't give up. Practice. Experiment. DO |
| Art Instructor, Vinje Lawson provides students an explanation of Colorado Visual Art Standards: |
1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend
The visual arts are a means for expression, communication and meaning making.
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect
Visual arts recognize, articulate, and implement critical thinking through the synthesis, evaluation and analysis of visual information.
3. Invent and Discover to Create
Generate works of art that employ unique ideas, feelings, and values using different media, technologies.
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
Recognize, articulate, and validate the value of the visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience.
The visual arts are a means for expression, communication and meaning making.
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect
Visual arts recognize, articulate, and implement critical thinking through the synthesis, evaluation and analysis of visual information.
3. Invent and Discover to Create
Generate works of art that employ unique ideas, feelings, and values using different media, technologies.
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
Recognize, articulate, and validate the value of the visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience.