Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
The Arts in Education
The study of visual art, its processes and ideas, is a journey that offers rewards beyond the creation of art itself. Art requires that we find new ways of thinking and looking at the world, and in doing...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
10 Lessons the Arts Teach
If ever you are in need of defending art education, just quote from Elliot Eisner's points here Elliot Eisner on NAEA, National Art Education (poster) 1. The arts teach children to make good judgments...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
The Teenage Brain
"I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out therest; for there is nothing in the between butgetting wenches with...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Advice for the Aspiring Artiste
This page is especially geared towards students who are thinking of going to art college and/or becoming an artist. Many people believe that being an artist is the luck of the draw, feast or famine, (more...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Referencing in Visual Arts
How and when to reference, in text citation, image labels, list of sources and references in the assessed tasks. Referencing within the IB Visual Arts course can be a cloudy area for students and teachers...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Crit E: Post-Production Evaluation
Criterion E: Post-Production Evaluation asks you to look back upon the experience of realizing your Artist Project and critically evaluate the outcomes of situating your artwork in context and communicating...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Course Planning Free
The IB Visual Arts guide (first exams 2027) defines the structure of the new course with a clearer focus on objectives in the first year, saving key assessment tasks for the second year. The guide urges...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
SCAMPER Ideation
Art-making is central to the Visual Arts curriculum. As such, generating creative ideas as a preparatory step for art-making is part and parcel of the process. Here, we unpack SCAMPER, an incredible...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Self Directed Art Making Free
The IB Art course rests on a delicate but highly effective collaboration between student and teacher. One of the biggest challenges is finding an optimum balance between teacher-guided instruction and...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Summer Prep
Looking for an assignment that gives a little taste of the flavors of the New Visual Arts Course for your incoming first year IB students? A summer assignment or a new activity? We have put together a...