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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...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Sound in IB Art (New Course) Free
In the new Visual Arts Course with first exams in 2027, sound is permitted as part of an artwork. This allows students the freedom to create their own original sound for video, installations, and time-based...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Art or Craft?
An interesting and always controversial topic for a TOK and ART discussion. It used to be that art and craft were considered one and the same, but the definition of art has changed over time. Much of...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Betye Saar
This resource refers to an exhibition of the now 96 year old African American artist Betye Saar at MOMA the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2019. It may appeal to both IB students and teachers because...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Lens-less Photography
Column 3 of the Art Making Forms Table includes lens photography AND lens-less photography techniques. Explore some of these alternative image making processes as part of your Process Portfolio In a...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Blind Drawing
Using touch not sight to guide a drawing Use this as a warm up exercise to overcome fear and to discover the other senses involved in drawing. Again, this exercise is not intended to create portfolio...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Seed: On the Edge
Explore the state of precariousness through an artwork. Construct something that is on the edge of collapsing or falling apart, but does not. You can use whatever materials are on hand, no special art...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
EE Example Ellisive
"To what extent is it evident that the tradition of Japanese woodblock print influenced the artistic activities of Nikolai Astrup?" ( Research Question) In this extended essay that received an A, Ellisive...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Seed:Travel Sculptures
Keep the design simple, folding and cutting are all that is required. Several trial versions may be necessary using graph paper before you make your final travel sculpture. ( see the drawing below) Transfer...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Seed: Daily Drawing
You can draw anything at all and it can be very very quick, less than a minute, or as slow as you wish.The objective is to make a drawing a day for month. To start, try drawing your feet, like this beautiful...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
EE Example Shawn
An EE from 2023 session on the topic of Picasso's influence on "In between" by Shibu Chand. The EE recieved 31/34 points. Many thanks to Shawn and to Sona Sakthi Madhu, his teacher at Trivandrum International...