Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Standard 4: Understanding the Cultural Dimensions and Contributions of the Arts

4. Students will explore art and artifacts from various historical periods and world cultures to discover the roles that art plays in the lives of people of a given time and place and to understand how the time and place influence the visual characteristics of the art work. Students will explore art to understand the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of human society.

Students:

demonstrate how art works and artifacts from diverse world cultures reflect aspects of those cultures (a)
demonstrate the ways in which some particular art works and artifacts reflect important aspects of the diverse cultures of the United States (b)
create art works that reflect a particular historical period of a culture (c).

This is evident, for example, when students:

research the totems and other artifacts of the Northwest Indians and discuss how those images are connected with their rituals and their beliefs about family and clan
look at traditional Japanese art and identify its visual characteristics

examine the patterns of Mexican textiles and create a work in which they invent a pattern based on those ideas.