Art and Design

This course is modeled after the six Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for Art and Design Education: Knowing, Doing, Communicating, Thinking, Understanding, and Creating.

The Visual Arts are a universal and advanced form of human communication. In art education children study and produce works of art based on critical, aesthetic, and historical understanding. Studying art helps a child develop visual perception, imagination, creativity, fine motor skills, and problem-solving strategies. The art education curriculum has three major components: 

• Valuing and understanding visual forms in natural and human environments.
• Knowing about and understanding art, artists, and cultures.
• Using visual media to communicate or to express oneself.

Through observation, class discussion, and practice, students will explore art in their world and grow in understanding of the concepts of art through drawing, painting, design, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, fibers, and art history using a variety of materials and techniques.

Learn more about Art and Design Curriculum at Lake Country School by selecting a grade level below.

5K-4th Art and Design

5th-8th Art and Design