The Big Ideas in our K-12 curriculum focus on transferable skills and transcendent ideas through the study, interpretation, and production of art that can both reflect and shape people and cultures. 

Throughout Time and Across Cultures . . . 

• Artists have sampled from other artists, past or present, for their own inspiration.
• Artists have worked collaboratively to create, construct, and redefine the limits of art.
• Artists have used the grid to reconstruct, resize and redesign artwork.
• Miniature-sized artworks have made art more accessible to one another through means of sharing and trading.  Similar to a portfolio, the multitude of artworks brought together emanate the notions of community as well as individual creativity.
• Public artworks have developed as a direct response to society.
• Artists have had to draw from observation as their immediate reference.
• Artists have utilized various tools to mimic that of their subject matter.
• Relationships have been based on the proportions from one object to another.
• The art of transformation has influenced the work of many artists as well as scientists.
• An artist’s artwork has and will always be a representation of themselves and their interests.
• Artists have explored the processes in which art and its reproductive studies have been altered.
• Artists have expanded upon their own best-practices through the interaction of other artists as reference for collaboration and/or validation.
• All physical and inorganic objects have been composed of both simple and complex shapes.
• Color has shaped a framework to visually interpret, analyze & evaluate our surroundings.
• The skills, techniques, elements and principles of the arts can be learned, studied, refined and practiced.
• Artists use tools and resources as well as their own experiences and skills to create art.
• The arts provide a medium to understand and exchange ideas.
• People have expressed experiences and ideas through the arts throughout time and across cultures.
• Design has shaped a framework to visually interpret, analyze and evaluate our surroundings. 
• There are formal and informal processes used to assess the quality of works in the arts.
• People use both aesthetic and critical processes to assess quality, interpret meaning and determine value.