Crit F: Future Development
The last criterion of the Artist Project, Criterion F: Future Development, offers a moment to build upon your learning and evaluation (Criterion E) and to harness your imagination to envision new directions and opportunities. This short-and-sweet criterion helps to bring the Artist Project experience full circle.
What we'll cover on this page:
- Criterion Overview
- Real-world connections
- Nuts & Bolts and Important Considerations
- Starting Points
- Essential Ingredients (Evidence & Requirements)
Criterion F: Overview of Future Development
| Goal | Use your evaluation to propose meaningful new directions and ideas in your creative practice. |
| Driving Question | Now that you've evaluated your Artist Project, what new directions will you propose for your creative practice? |
| Weight | 4 marks (10% of the AP) |
| Highest Markband Descriptor | "The proposal(s) to further develop the creative practice are meaningful and thoughtfully or imaginatively informed by the evaluation." |
IB Visual Arts guide, p. 79
Real-World Connections
Art-making is iterative.
This means that every art-making experience feeds the next idea. When you look back at past work, you can pick out some of the most meaningful aspects to build into something new. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a famous two-person duo, were constantly proposing and inventing new artistic ideas based on past work. “Empaquetage de Louis XIII - Monument” was a proposal for a piece they never actually made, inspired by their earlier wrapped monuments in Rome and Paris in the 1960s.
🥜 Nuts & Bolts 🔧 Important Considerations
What is a creative practice? Your creative practice includes the entire artistic process from developing ideas to experimentation to polishing and exhibiting your artwork. For Criterion F, explain how your experience with the Artist Project can inspire future creative processes or artworks.
Real or Imagined. Your future development proposal may result in a real artwork you plan to build or a visionary concept you can imagine making or developing.
Informed by the evaluation. Your proposal must directly connect to your evaluation in Criterion E. Pick a few key takeaways, such as the audience experience, communication of your idea or situating your AP artwork. Explain how your takeaways are thoughtfully shaping your ideas about future art work directions, ideas or processes.
Envision your idea visually. Use sketches, digital collages, source images, artist inspiration, or a combination to illustrate your proposal. Don't forget to cite external sources!
Proposal(s). You can propose more than one direction, idea, process, or artwork within this criterion.
Teacher only boxHelp your students select their approach
The following table helps to illustrate some of the pitfalls or opportunities of the different approaches for envisioning future work in Criterion F:
| Advantages | Vulnerabilities | |
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Visionary proposal |
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Practical proposal |
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Essential Ingredients
Requirements
- maximum of 1 screen
- up to 200 words
- mixture of visual and written evidence
Evidence:
- digital collages or renderings
- digitally manipulated images (i.e. a reworked image of the AP artwork)
- hand drawn sketches or thumbnail drawings
- source imagery (i.e. other artists' works, images of other sites or contexts, material inspiration)
Further Resources
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...
The Artist Project HL
An externally assessed task weighted as 30%, The Artist Project (AP) asks HL students to envision an artwork that they can situate, create, and present with consideration of multiple (at least two)...
Image References:
Christo. Empaquetage de Louis XIII – Monument – (Projet pour Festival de Marais – Juin 1967). 1967. Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, https://christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/wrapped-monuments-not-realized/. Photo: Archive. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026.
“Wrapped Monuments – Not Realized.” Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, https://christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/wrapped-monuments-not-realized/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026.