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New Course (First Exams 2027)
✨Sparks✨ Betye Saar
In this ✨Spark✨ we introduce the work of African American artist Betye Saar, focusing on her mixed-media assemblages. Betye died this July 2026, just a few days short of her 100th birthday. She leaves...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
The Inquiry Portfolio
The Art Making Inquiry Portfolio, also called the AIP, or just Inquiry Portfolio. The Inquiry Portfolio consists of a selection of curated visual and written materials that show the students investigations,...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
The Connections Study SL
Weighted at 20%, the externally assessed task, the Connections Study (CS), asks SL students to select one of their resolved artworks to situate, investigate and connect to (at least two) artworks by two...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
The Artist Project HL
This newest component of the course is an exciting and challenging project for HL students. You will create an artwork, in any media, separate from your body of work (Resolved Artworks (Internal Assessment)...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Resolved Artworks (Internal Assessment)
This component is essentially the body of artwork that you create during the course. A body of work in this case means a coherent selection of artworks that have strong relationships between them. You...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Shadow Assemblage
Assemblage: art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought specially. _Tate terms This seed uses a combinatory strategy, assembling diverse...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Self-Transformation
Here is an invitation to photograph the transformation of your own image. You may use whatever means you wish: costumes, make-up, digital manipulation. This is, in a sense, the opposite of a Selfie. You...
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New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Seeing Space
This activity teaches students to look at objects in terms of positive and negative space, and in doing so they become more aware of shape and the space around shapes, one of the fundamental elements...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Scientific Experiment
This seed invites you to use a scientific process to create an artwork. Take the premise from an experiment that you are doing in a science class and repurpose it towards creating an artwork. Let chance...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Real vs Reproduced
I see students draw from a photograph or more often from an image on their phone and rarely from live observation. This is an exploration of how we see what is in front of us, and how a photographic image...