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New Course (First Exams 2027)
Who am I as an Artist?
The Artist Project (AP) will challenge you to think intentionally about your own artistic contexts. How you think about yourself as a maker today, in your current location, is a fundamental part of the...
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...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Picturing Interiors
This is a good time to observe the intimacy of your surroundings. let's turn to the subject matter of interiors.... long a favorite among artists of many eras. This can be rich subject matter for visual...
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...
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)
Storyboarding a Video
Creating a storyboard for a future video project is a fruitful, time-saving task. It allows you to forecast which types of shots to capture as a starting point. Storyboards can be used as ideation tools...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🛠️Creative Strategies🛠️ Toolkit Free
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 tried and...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
SL: Structuring the Rationale Free
The SL Rationale supports the submission of 5 Resolved Artworks. It is a chance to highlight what makes your body of artworks special (technically, stylistically, conceptually) and the connections among...
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)
Research & Evidence (AP, CS)
In the Artist Project (HL) and Connections Study (SL), you will be asked to research and connect artists and artworks and to provide evidence that's relevant and meaningful to the task. We'll break down...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
But is it Art?
One of my favorite artist celebrities, Grayson Perry, in his recent series of radio talks, provides some incredibly insightful commentary on the nature of contemporary art- despite the comical presentation....
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Crit F: Future Development Free
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...