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New Course (First Exams 2027)
Digitizing Evidence: Developing a Draft
During your first year, plan to keep track of your explorations and processes in one place, such as a slideshow. Here we offer some suggestions for how to effectively digitize and keep track of process-based...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
The Art of Questioning
Learning how to ask great questions…not unlike painting, drawing, sculpting or sewing…is both a skill and an art form. Asking questions that will inspire, excite, and spark new curiosities is at the heart...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Cultural Threads
Textiles are not seen too frequently seen in IB art portfolios, yet this is a fantastic, accessible, culturally rich art form. If you have any interest in textiles yourself why not get your students involved...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Seed: Vanishing Drawing
Make a piece of art that deals with the idea of invisibility, either literally or figuratively. Maybe it can only be seen under certain conditions, light, or situations or maybe it simply evaporates after...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Art and Meaning
This section looks at how we assign meaning to art, and what makes art art. The unanswerable question, what is art? however impossible to answer still makes a good debate. Show these examples and use...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Cultural and Geographic Focus
Our notion of art is primarily taught from a Western, European perspective. These pages are an invitation to explore the rich variety of art forms that arise specific to place and culture throughout our...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Seed: Modern Miniatures
Create a miniature painting of a scene with a person engaged in some aspect of contemporary culture. What is it that you wish to comment on? Materials good quality watercolor paper pencil and tracing...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Seed: Psycho-geographies
Get your hands on an actual map of a place you live or have lived or that is somehow meaningful to you. It's important that is it a real map, not just printed from the internet ( the object and paper...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Artistic Appropriation Free
Appropriation in art and art history refers to the practice of artists taking a pre-existing image from another context—art history, advertising, the media, and creating a new image or object by combining...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Student Guide: Preparing the AIP
When you engage deliberately in IB Visual Arts, you will generate a lot of evidence! It is important to work strategically and to manage your time and the physical and digital materials that you produce. The...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
HL: Structuring the Rationale
The HL Rationale supports the Selected Resolved Artworks as a justification for the choice of 5 resolved artworks from a body of 8 work. In this writing, you will discuss your intentions, sharing how...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Thematic Threads
This activity helps year 1 students to investigate a topic or theme through looking at images from art history. See Finding a Focus for more about developing individual directions. This is a fun way...