Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Sticky Note Critiques
Sticky Note critiques are an accessible option for students to give feedback to their peers. This strategy can be used for students to give one another feedback mid-process or through a more formal critique...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Critiques
Think of the critique as a collaborative experience. It is a group search for visual solutions, for meaning and purpose and new ideas. The critique is also a way of helping students learn to be helpful...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Question Stems
Asking questions is one of the highest-order thinking skills, demonstrating one's ability to synthesize different concepts. This skill can support the development of critical thinking across all three...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Sound in Contemporary Art
Sound is materially invisible but very visceral and emotive. It can define a space at the same time as it triggers a memory -Susan Philipsz Sound Art is Art which uses sound both as its medium (what it...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
EE Example Shawn
An EE from 2023 session on the topic of Picasso's influence on "In between" by Shibu Chand. The EE recieved 31/34 points. Many thanks to Shawn and to Sona Sakthi Madhu, his teacher at Trivandrum International...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Reflections on Creativity
I have gathered some reflections on the creative process from an assortment of writers, artists and psychologists. Hopefully you will delve deeper into the ones that you find most interesting, and gain...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Self-Reflection
"We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience," John Dewey stated in 1933. The following page includes some dynamic questions and question stems that you might ask yourself...
Blog
Deciphering the Subject Report (2024) Free
The May 2024 Subject Report for Visual Arts was released just last week. The Subject Report tends to be a rather lengthy document hence we have summarized and analysed the key points that are most relevant...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
The Extended Essay
Students can choose from the subject areas on offer and as an IB Visual Arts teacher you will probably be asked to supervise one or more essays of those students who chose a Visual Arts topic. The EE...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
The Clock, Christian Marclay
The Clock, a 24 hour film collage tex Time is indeed of essence for artist and film maker Christian Marclay. The Clock is a 24 hour film installation made up of thousands of snippets from throughout the...