Visual Arts (167 total posts)

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...