Students explore the role of art in history and culture through observation and analysis of significant works of art and architecture from Prehistory through the 16th century.

Students experiment with the media and techniques used to create a variety of two-dimensional (2-D) artworks through the development of skills in drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and/or design.

Students explore how space, mass, balance, and form combine to create aesthetic forms or utilitarian products and structures using clay and/or plaster.

Students explore spatial relationships through the use of nonobjective, abstract, or representational forms, products, or structures.

Students communicate a sense of 4-D, motion, and/or time, based on creative use of spatial relationships and innovative treatment of space and its components.

Students explore the fundamental concepts, terminology, techniques, and applications of digital art imaging to create original work using computers and photo-editing software.

Students explore and develop concepts, terminology, techniques, and applications to design, create, print, and display original two-dimensional graphics and fine works of art.

Students explore advanced topics through project-based work, becoming more self-directed in acquisition and use of concepts to design original 2-D graphics in print and web formats.

Students experiment with the media and techniques used to create a variety of two-dimensional (2-D) artworks through the development of skills in drawing.

Students develop and refine technical skills and create 2-D compositions with a variety of media in drawing.

Students demonstrate proficiency in the conceptual development of content in drawing to create self-directed or collaborative 2-D artwork suitable for inclusion in a portfolio.

Students experiment with the media and techniques used to create a variety of two-dimensional (2-D) artworks through the development of skills in painting.