Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Visual Arts 9-12

Connecting (VA-C1)

Connecting: The learner develops understandings about the significance of dance, dramatic arts, music, or visual arts by making connections to various times, places, social groups, and cultures.

Specific Expectations

The learner develops understandings about people and practices in the visual arts by:

  • exploring a range of visual arts works, forms, styles, traditions, innovations, and visual culture from various times, places, social groups, and cultures (including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit)
  • investigating contributors to visual arts from a range of contexts (e.g., artist, designer, graphic artist, website designer, illustrator, cartoonist, artisan, curator, conservation and restoration technician, advocate, educator, historian, critic)
  • engaging with local, Manitoban, and Canadian contributors and contributions to visual arts (e.g., artists, art groups, events, community and cultural resources, innovations) to expand learning opportunities

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Connecting (VA-C2)

Specific Expectations

The learner develops understandings about the influence and impact of the visual arts by:

  • examining ways that visual arts and artists influence personal growth, identity, and relationships with others
  • examining the impact of context (e.g., personal, social, artistic, cultural, political, economic, geographical, environmental, historical, technological) on visual arts and artists
  • examining how visual arts and artists influence, comment on, question, and challenge social, political, and cultural discourse and identity
  • exploring how visual arts and artists influence and are influenced by other arts disciplines and subject areas
  • exploring how new technologies and ideas can propel change and innovation in art and visual culture (e.g., shifting definitions of art, of “high” vs. “low” culture; changing status of women in society and art; impacts of digital or social media in art practices)

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Connecting (VA-C3)

Specific Expectations

The learner develops understandings about the roles, purposes, and meanings of the visual arts by:

  • exploring how art and artists make and communicate meaning and create unique and new ways to know self and to perceive the world
  • examining how visual arts can be a means of sharing diverse viewpoints and of understanding the perspectives of others
  • examining ways that visual arts reflect, interpret, and record traditions, values, beliefs, issues, and events in society and culture
  • analyzing the multiple roles and purposes of art for individuals and society (e.g., celebration, persuasion, education, commemoration, commentary, recreation, therapy, religious/artistic/cultural expression)
  • investigating leisure and/or career and other lifelong possibilities in art (e.g., artist, media designer, designer, graphic artist, computer graphics artist, website designer, illustrator, cartoonist, artisan, museum curator, conservation and restoration technician, museum educator, teacher, critic, historian, anthropologist, therapist, volunteer, viewer)

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