The Ohio Department of Education Fine Arts Academic Content Standards:

Personal Choice and Vision: Students construct and solve problems of personal relevance and interest when expressing themselves through visual art.

Critical and Creative Thinking: Students combine and apply artistic and reasoning skills to imagine, create, realize and refine artworks in conventional and innovative ways.

Authentic Application and Collaboration: Students work individually and in groups to focus ideas and create artworks that address genuine local and global community needs.

Literacy: As consumers, critics and creators, students evaluate and understand artworks and other texts produced in the media forms of the day

You may access the Ohio Department of Education's web site to download a copy of the Fine Arts Academic Content Standards.  The following link will take you to the main page.  VISUAL ART STATE STANDARDS