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What Are the Visual Arts?

NAEA Official Definition

What are the Visual Arts?

Visual Arts, as defined by the National Art Education Association, include the traditional fine arts, such as,  drawing , painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture; media arts, such as, animation, video and emerging digital technologies; design, such as, communication, product, and interactive; environmental, such as, architecture, landscape architecture, interior and urban planning; conceptual, performance, participatory, street, and folk arts and works of art in clay, glass, metal, wood, fiber, paper and other materials. (Revised January 2017)

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