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The Comparative Study – answers to questions

March 4, 2020
I have received some Comparative Study questions from teachers who participated in a previous category 1 visual arts workshop and am sharing my responses now with others through this blog. In some cases, I have also referred to things written by the online...
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Process portfolio – Questions and Answers

February 6, 2020
I seem to spend a lot of time talking about the visual arts exhibition, and much less taking about the other two components, the Comparative Study and the Process Portfolio. So, to make up for that, this blog is devoted to your PP – one of the externally assessed...
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Depressurising in March (and the end is nigh)

January 30, 2020
Greetings students! It’s March! Under pressure? If you are a second year DP Visual Arts student in a northern hemisphere school, you may be feeling pressure to complete work in the different course components, because the time for end-of-course uploads is...
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Documenting temporary artworks

December 6, 2019
Fire, Water and Decay Emma – one of my 2nd year visual arts students –  is interested in the process of decomposition and destruction by fire. She’s interested in the way things change as they end their existence, the visual qualities and the nature of...
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Arts assessment: Thoughts and Suggestions

November 29, 2019
We are in the middle of the November visual arts examination session so I thought that I would highlight some assessment-related things that friend and colleague Jayson Paterson recently said on My IB. (As many will know, Jayson is one of the My IB visual arts experts...