Observing, analyzing, and researching artists and artworks are common in many curricula, but making connections to them has been integral to the IB Visual Arts syllabus for decades. The 2024 IBDP Subject Brief for Visual Arts (first assessment 2027) emphasizes that Connecting, along with Creating and Communicating, will be central to the two-year syllabus. Here, we’ll explore a couple of pre-teaching strategies to...