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

    Stop-Motion Animation



    Students are introduced to stop-motion animation through some short clips including:

  • Contains Small Parts. .

  • "Deadlines" Post-It. .

  • Another Post-It. .

  • Tony vs. Paul. .

  • Rhett and Link's T-shirt War. .

    • And student examples including the following:
  • Chris Bren's Claymation. .

  • Mike Lee's "Accidents Happen". .


    • Students may use iStopMotion on our Mac's in class or take photos themselves at home.

    Evaluation:

    3 points -- smoothness of motion
    3 points -- Creativity and Degree of difficulty
    2 points -- Cute, Humorous or Tells a story
    2 points -- Saved as a movie and emailed to Kulzer.

    10 points total

    Click here for an example Mr. Kulzer did for class that illustrates using photo manipulation.


    Let's Make Something!