THE STUDIO HABITS OF MIND Meet

THE NATIONAL CORE ARTS STANDARDS

CREATING
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Creativity and innovative thinking • What conditions, attitudes and behaviors support creativity • Stretch and Explore
are essential life skills that can be and innovative thinking? • Understand Art World:
developed. • What factors prevent or encourage people to take risks? innovation and how to
• How does collaboration extend the creative process? interact with others
Generate and

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artistic ideas Artists and designers
shapeartistic investigations,
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How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art
forms help us create works of art and design?
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Express
Envision
and work.
following or breaking with • Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? • Understand Art World:
traditions in pursuit of creative • How to artists determine what resources and criteria learning about culture and
artmaking goals. are needed to formulate artistic investigations? art history, current practices
and innovation

Artists and designers experiment How do artists and designers… • Reflect

with forms, structures, materials, • work? • Engage and Persist
concepts, media and art making • determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? • Understand Art World:
approaches. • learn from trial and error? innovation

Organize Artists and designers balance • How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, • Develop Craft
experimentation and safety, tools, and equipment? • Understand Art World:
2 and develop
artistic ideas
freedom and responsibility while
developing and creating artworks.
• Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow
correct procedures?
how to interact with others

and work. • What responsibilities come with freedom to create?

People create and interact with • How do objects, places and design shape lives and communities? • Observe
objects, places, and design that • How do artists and designers determine goals for designing • Envision
define, shape, enhance, and or redesigning objects, places, or systems? • Understand Art World: current
empower their lives. • How do artists and designers create work that effectively practices and innovation
communicates?

Artists and designers develop • What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and • Engage and Persist
Refine and excellence through practice and developing work? • Develop Craft
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artistic work.
constructive critique, reflecting on,
revising and refining work over time.
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How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms?
How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience
• Connect
• Express
it more completely?

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PRESENTING
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Select, analyze Artists and other presenters • How are artworks cared for and by whom? • Reflect
consider various techniques, • How do we select works for presentation? • Understand Art World
and interpret
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methods, venues, and criteria • Why do people value and present objects for presentation?
artistic when preparing work for
work for preservation and presentation.
presentation.

Develop Artists, curators and others • What methods and processes are considered when preparing • Reflect
and refine consider a variety of factors and artwork for presentation or preservation? • Express
methods including evolving • How does refining work affect its meaning to the viewer?
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techniques
technologies when preparing and
refining artwork for display and
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What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation,
a portfolio, or a collection?
and work for or when deciding if and how to
presentation. preserve and protect it.

Objects, artifacts, and artworks • What is an art museum? • Observe

Convey collected, preserved, or presented • How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and • Reflect
meaning either by artists, museums, or other artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? • Connect

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through the venues communicate meaning • How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved,
presentation and a record of social, cultural, and or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
political experiences resulting in
of artistic the cultivating of appreciation and
work. understanding.

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RESPONDING
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Individual aesthetic and • How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? • Observe
empathetic awareness developed • How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? • Reflect
through engagement with art • What can we learn from our responses to art? • Understand Art World
can lead to understanding and • Stretch and Explore
appreciation of self, others, the
Perceive and natural world, and constructed
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work.
environments.

Visual imagery influences • What is an image? • Observe

understanding of and responses • Where and how do we see encounter images in our world? • Understand Art World
to the world. • How do images influence our views of the world? • Reflect
• Stretch and Explore

Interpret People gain insights into • What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? • Observe
meanings of artworks by • How does a viewer “read” a work of art? • Understand Art World
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intent and
engaging in the process of art • How does knowing and using visual art vocabularies help us • Reflect
meaning in criticism. understand and interpret works of art? • Stretch and Explore
artistic work. • Express

People evaluate art based • How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? • Observe
Apply on various criteria. • How and why might criteria vary? • Understand Art World
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evaluate
• How is a personal preference different from an evaluation? • Reflect
• Stretch and Explore
artistic work. • Express

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 CONNECTING
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Synthesize Through art-making, people • How does creating art enrich people’s lives? • Observe
make meaning by investigating • How does making attune people to their surroundings? • Understand Art World
and relate
and developing awareness of • How do people contribute to their communities through • Reflect

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knowledge perceptions, knowledge, and art-making? • Stretch and Explore
and personal experiences. • Express
experiences
to make art.

Relate People develop ideas and • How does art help us understand the lives of people of different • Observe
understandings of society, culture, times, places, and cultures? • Understand Art World
artistic ideas
and history through their interactions • How is art used to impact the view of society? • Reflect
and works with with and analysis of art. • How does art preserve aspects of life? • Stretch and Explore

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societal, cultural • Express
and historical
context to
deepen
understanding.

This document was developed by Alexis Hamilton, an art educator in Menlo Park, CA.

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