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Student Activities and Resources

A collection of starting points for year 1 students: ready-to-use activities that stimulate inquiry or explore creative problem-solving. Insights into artists and how they find inspiration. A little something to help you get unstuck or think differently. We have just launched this library and more activities will be added over the coming months.

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The Activities section of the website is currently set to allow your students free access to all the resources. You can leave it as direct student access (default) or, if you wish, you can select activities or assign certain pages and hide others in Managing Student Access.

Art Seed Bank

Want to make something different, be challenged?  Each seed has a short provocation, a list of materials, a link to an artist, and some inquiry questions to get you on your way. Scroll through the seeds to find what you'd like to nurture into being.

 

Art Seed Bank (provocations)

The Art Seed Bank has been updated and expanded for the New Visual Arts Course to explore Creative Strategies with thought-provoking Inquiry Questions for each activity. Choose from the ever-expanding...

🛠️ Creative Strategies Toolkit 🛠️ 

Are you stuck? Unable to move past your first idea? In our Toolkit, you'll find a variety of creative strategies to help you unleash new possibilities or further your existing ideas.

 

🛠️Creative Strategies🛠️ Toolkit

Are you stuck? Unable to move past your first idea? Interested and exciteds to reshape past ideas, but wishing to move forward more creatively ? Our 🛠️ Creative Strategies Toolkit 🛠️ offers...

✨Sparks✨ (from artists) series

Ideas and images flow from artist to artist, over time, place, and across cultures- explore the never-ending creative chain of artists inspiring artists and the sparks that ignite their work. 

 

✨Sparks✨ (from artists) series

Our ✨Sparks✨ (from artists) series share how artists borrow, develop, and transform the ideas and inspiration of other artists. Because artists don't work in a vacuum, we are constantly mixing and...

🌏 Artist Projects 🌍 around the World

See how artists in different parts of the world create projects in response to their circumstances, beliefs, environment, individual and collective experiences.

 

🌏 Artist Projects 🌍 around the World

In 🌏 Artist Projects 🌎 around the World, we share an ongoing collection of real-world examples by artists (not students) that relate to the Artist Project (HL). These artworks serve to stimulate...

image credit: Maurizio Cattelan, Comedian, 2019. Banana and duct tape


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