Curious Curatorial Rationales

May 25, 2018

Curatorial issues As an examiner I’ve  read a lot of curatorial rationales over the last few weeks, and I wanted to share some rationale-related reflections. If you are a Visual Arts student in your first year (and in a May session school) then in around 9...

Become a Visual Arts Examiner!

April 20, 2018

Hi all, Like all May session Visual Arts teachers, a few weeks ago I uploaded a variety of files from my final year students – for assessment and moderation – to IBIS. If you teach IBDP Visual Arts, at some point you are going to do this: let go of your...

7 Points from the Visual Arts Subject Report

April 4, 2018

The Visual Arts Subject Report for the last May session is in the shops now! (Not really – see the end of this post for how to get it.) This document is not a hypothetical aspirational document; it’s more of a reaction to and reflection on the things that you...

Everything you always wanted to know about the Visual Arts upload process…but were afraid to ask

February 23, 2018

Yes, its time! Gather your files/digital documentation of student work and go to IBIS! No, not the bird: I mean IBIS: the International Baccalaureate Information System (https://ibis.ibo.org/)   Collect your students’ files, take a deep breath, stay calm,...

The Shape of Things to Come (in 2022)

February 7, 2018

The Visual Arts Curriculum Review—and the Shape of Things to Come! The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells, published in 1933, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106. In the book, a world state is established as...

6/VACAF, EE/RPPF and EE/CS

January 10, 2018

(Don’t you love acronyms?) I lead DP visual arts workshops, both online and face-to-face, and just before Christmas finished my last visual arts workshop of 2017. It was a category 1 and these are invariable full, packed and busy—so much to cover, so little time...