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Visual arts (New Syllabus)
IB DP Category 2
Stockholm, Sweden, 2 - 4 May 2025
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Visual arts (New Syllabus)
IB DP Category 2
Barcelona, Spain, 29 - 31 August 2025
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Arts
IB MYP Category 1
Paris, France, 7 - 9 November 2025
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Virtual Think-Ins
Connecting Artist Research to Artmaking in DP Visual Arts
Virtual Think-In, 4 April 2025
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FAQs
FAQs below address the outgoing curriculum (last exams 2026). This resource is a work in progress and will be updated to reflect questions that are asked increasingly on the site to give you immediate...
Course Components
Preparing for an IB Art Exhibition Free
Most schools in the northern hemisphere will stage their IB art shows some time in March, some even in February. Time to start planning the space and how you will you divide it among students: what walls,...
Art Making
New Video Art Visions
Let's go inside it In this converging reality of hyper connectivity, interactivity, visual stimulation, mega information, and obsessive documentation, some young artists are using digital technology to...
Student Gallery
Joy, HL Process Portfolio
In this very beautifully presented documentation of her journey Joy ( Shi Qile) walks us through the development of her ideas around beauty, identity and the body with in-depth critical investigation...
Art Making
Seed: Public and Private Selves Free
This seed invites you to become a documentarian, a kind of private investigator of something in your own surroundings. Stick with this one thing and document it relentlessly, repeatedly, recording subtle...
Student Gallery
Vlada Exhibition HL
Vlada's exhibition focuses on architecture, fashion, and recycling, with an impressive use of materials and skills. Industrialised town ( seen here) "represents the contrast between the best and the worst...
Student Gallery
Exhibition Gallery Free
In this section you will find slideshows of students' exhibition photos with exhibition texts and Curatorial Rationale. Recent examples include the entire submission, in others a selection of studio work...
Art Making
Art Seed Bank Free
The Art Seed Bank is a collection of short invitations to create, to think about art, to try something different. Choose from the ever expanding seed catalogue, and watch your seed grow. Take a series...
New Visual Arts Course (First exams 2027)
Resolved Artworks (Internal Assessement)
Students create artwork throughout the course, but in the first months this will be mostly teacher directed. As the student begins to follow their own lines of inquiry and develop more autonomy, they...
New Visual Arts Course (First exams 2027)
New Visual Arts Course (First exams 2027)
The new Visual Arts Guide with first exams in 2027 is now published and the 79-page document is available on MyIB. Our mission here at InThinking is to unpack the guide for you, synthesize the aims and...