Minnesota 9-12 Visual Art Standards

  • 1. Foundation
  • 1a. Use foundational knowledge and skills while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

  • 2. Create
  • 2a. Generate and develop original artistic ideas.
  • 2b. Create original artistic work.
  • 2c. Revise and complete original artistic work.

  • 3. Present
  • 3a. Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for performance.

  • 3b. Make artistic choices in order to convey meaning through performance.
  • 4. Respond
  • 4a. Analyze and construct interpretations of artistic work.

  • 4b. Evaluate artistic work by applying criteria.
  • 5. Connect
  • 5a. Integrate knowledge and personal experiences while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

  • 5b.Demonstrate an understanding that artistic works influence and are influenced by personal, societal, cultural, and historical contexts, including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.
    • *All standards listed above are from the 2020 Minnesota Art Standards document.
  • My personal addition to the standards:
  • Understand and effectively use the Elements and Principles of Visual Art.

    • Animation

    First Day Discussion

    Students are asked to take a minute and think about what they would pick as the best animated film of all time. We then take a few minutes to discuss, at their table groups, each person's film choice and what makes it the best.

    The teacher asks each table for one of their movies and the reasons why it's so good. As they discuss it the teacher looks for images from each show and projects them on the board.

    Some more discussion questions are listed below:

  • Is story more important or animation?
  • What are the advantages of animation over live action?
  • Cite an example of what couldn't have been done in live action.


    • Circle Drawing Exercises are done next. Students are given a large sheet of junky paper and asked to draw a circle as fast as they can. Practice it again and again.

    Similarly squares are done too.



    Let's Make Something!