The standards provide the foundation for visual art education for all students. The standards support student-learning outcomes through big ideas – enduring understandings and essential questions.

Announcing Review of the National Arts Standards NCAS will launch a thorough survey to collect data on the National Standards for dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts.

The quality and availability of education in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts vary widely, particularly in locales where arts education is not compulsory.

By including all aspects of creating, presenting, responding, and connecting in study of the visual arts, student learning through these standards explores the full scope of what it means to be an artistically …

The National Core Arts Standards are designed to guide the delivery of arts education in the classroom with new ways of thinking, learning, and creating. The standards also inform policy-makers about …

The National Core Arts Standards for Visual Art and their accompanying Model Cornerstone Assessment (MCA) allow the structured flexibility for meeting the needs of a diverse student audience.

Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues. Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or …

Whether it means updating curriculum or adapting an individual art lesson or curriculum unit, the new visual arts standards inspire and support the ways in which art educators keep their teaching fresh …

Since publication of the National Core Arts Standards in 2014, the coalition continues to convene to support robust implementation of national arts standards.

Feb 12, 2025 · To best inform decision-making and to ensure transparency in the review, all arts educators, thought partners, education and arts organizations, and stakeholders with interests in arts …