Visual Arts (167 total posts)

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What Price Freedom of Expression?

October 31, 2018
It would be stretching things to call me a rebel, or subversive, or even a dissident, but I have recently had my words censored! Well, OK, maybe not ‘my’ words exactly, but the words of a student in two pages of a book I co-authored together with S. Poppy...
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New Art Teacher? 5 Visual Arts Starting Points!

October 1, 2018
It’s September and in art rooms all over the world DP visual arts teachers are starting to teach this two year course. I recently received an email from an old friend who is now Associate Head of School at an IB school in North America. He wrote: ‘We have...
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PP Reminders: Pictures and Process

September 19, 2018
Two PP points! 1. Show me pictures (“visual evidence”) There must be visual as well as written/text documentation of process. It should be obvious – but of course just writing comments and explanations is not enough: is there visual evidence of what has been...
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Collaboration? Huh! What is it Good For?

September 10, 2018
Do you have your students work collaboratively on art-making projects? In December 2015 I posted a blog about collaboration (To collaborate, or not to collaborate – that is the question!) But the issue has come up again, this time with some questions from teachers in...
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The Art of Protest

July 27, 2018
‘Raising awareness’ Art can do many things, and recently – certainly since the 1980s – we’ve seen a lot of artists focus on one thing in particular: the art of protest (or ‘raising awareness’). With seemingly more and more things to protest about and the...