• New Hartford Visual Art Program Goals based on National and State Standards 
     
    Students will:
     
    1.  Acquire basic skills and techniques in a variety of media in order to develop their individual powers of expression by  visual means
     
    2.  Learn a vocabulary and the corresponding traditions for producing, describing, and analyzing works of art.
     
    3.  Explore, understand , and generate sources for producing artworks.
     
    4.  Study and respond to masterworks according to their age, grade level or ability, and available materials.
     
    5.  Develop aesthetic discernment when creating art, viewing or responding to art.
     
    6.  Find the visual arts existing in other learning and in the world around them. 
     
     
    The New Hartford Art Curriculum is guided by state standards.  Each art lesson references the standard(s) which the lesson supports.