Individual works whose primary material is woven or worked textile, fired clay, worked glass, or worked metal: carpets, tapestries, ceramic vessels, art glass and metalwork or jeweled objects recognized as significant individual works, the umbrella craft-object genre one level above the fiber-versus-ceramic/glass/metal medium split the American Craft Council and Getty AAT object-genre facets also draw within it. Belongs here: carpets, tapestries, embroidered and printed textile works, ceramic vessels, art glass objects, and metalwork or jeweled regalia recognized as significant individual objects. Does not belong here: paintings, sculptures in stone or wood, and architectural or built works, which are grouped under the other work subcategories.
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1. National Core Arts Standards: Visual Arts Introduction
National Coalition for Core Arts StandardsVisual Arts introduction, discipline definition paragraphQuote, Visual Arts introduction, discipline definition paragraph
Visual Arts include the traditional fine arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture; media arts including film, graphic communications, animation, and emerging technologies; architectural, environmental, and industrial arts such as urban, interior, product, and landscape design; folk arts; and works of art such as ceramics, fibers, jewelry, works in wood, paper, and other materials.
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