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Venice BiennaleVenice Biennale
An Encyclopedic Art Experience If you would like to visit the Biennale, the show is on until November 24th, so hurry up! If there simply isn’t time this year, never mind, the Biennale will be back...
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Grayson Perry's Reith LecturesGrayson Perry's Reith Lectures
Humour, Hogwash and Insight"An art work is about something, it has a point of view, it has a historical context...." GP The delightful Grayson Perry, award-winning artist, cross dressing potter,...
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IB Art Summer Course!IB Art Summer Course!
For Pre IB and Mid IB Art StudentsPlease share this with your students
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Buffet CultureBuffet Culture
I’ve just returned from teaching a workshop in Barcelona, so energizing to be with 46 other art teachers for 3 intense days of art, culture, and ....tapas. We were there to unpack and discuss the new...
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The Mystery of CreativityThe Mystery of Creativity
For your downtime listening pleasure...There's been a lot of non assisted walkways in my airport lately so I put my headphones on and listened to some ted radio hour talks on creativity while I plod...
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A Good Read: the Visual Arts Extended Essay A Good Read: the Visual Arts...
Turning the pagesA stack of extended essays is piled high on my desk..this is my reading this month. I try to pace myself, reading only a few each day so that my approach remains fresh and curious.As...
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Venice Biennale 2015Venice Biennale 2015
Lens based reflectionsMesmerized by " The end of carrying it all" Kenyan Artist Wangechi Mutuon the demise of materialism. Her three channel animated video fuses film photography and animation....
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Attitudes toward BeautyAttitudes toward Beauty
Painter Agnes Martin writes"When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection...."Form is...
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May 2016 Subject Report SummaryMay 2016 Subject Report Summary
Process PortfolioThe new Process Portfolio is a document of the students process and allows for greater flexibility than the old IWB in that the screens can include pages from the visual journal AND...
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Highlights of Subject Report 2017Highlights of Subject Report 2017
Each year, about 8 months after exams, a subject report is published by IBO, compiled from examiner comments and feedback and recorded in a 22 page long document available here on MyIB ( sign in...
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Why have an IB Visual Arts website?
The IB Visual Art Site has a tree structureI began creating this websitein 2010 and it has slowly and steadily taken a shape. What shape is that? Well it sort of resembles a giant tree with many...
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iPad Albers
Back in 1963, Josef Albers’ book, The Interaction of Color, was published.The BookI have treasured this book as a teacher and as an artist, with its’ emphasis on experimental pursuit of practice before...
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The Turner Prize 2014
The Turner Prize The Turner Prize is always a barometer of the times. This doesn't mean it's what we want to see or that it's neccessarily good art, but it is indicative of what is happening in the...
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Post Exam ReflectionsPost Exam Reflections
How did your exams go? Teacher Guidance-how much? There were many students who seemed to be working on teacher set projects that did not allow them to construct an individual approach. Teacher set...
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Two curriculums at once?
Balancing two courses This year is an especially challenging one for IB Art teachers with year 2 students still following the old curriculum guide and year 1 students starting with the new guide. Does...
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Skillfull-less
My ideal of an art school is one where practical, hands on visual skills are taught alongside theory and conceptual thinking, but apparently this is a rarity. The general trend in art colleges these...
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Summer IB Art Immersion
Mini IB art courseits happening agian this summer.....What happens when you try to compress an IB art program into 2 intense weeks? Well, we've had a go at it and it was an amazing experience for all,...
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Student Access
Hey folks,Jordi and Ruben, the IT wizards at InThinking, have designed a super cool and helpful new tool for teachers and students. The student access feature has been revised and updated to provide...
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Artist Teacher WorkshopArtist Teacher Workshop
Teachers work very hard, so don't forget to nourish your inner artist!Tags:PD, teacher development, personal, italy, workshops
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Highlights from the 2019 Subject ReportHighlights from the 2019 Subject Report
Looking back and seeing the way forward Process PortfolioThe process portfolio must focus on the process.Examiners are less concerned with the final product that may or may not be included in the...
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Covid-19 and Student AccessCovid-19 and Student Access
Student Access was set up to enable teachers to set assignments, and to give students access to pages selected by the teacher on this site etc. Once you give your students an access code they can...
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Letter from Lombardia
Advice and Solidarity for these timesI asked my friend Nicola Shears who teaches IB art in Milan and has been living at the epicenter of the corona virus crisis in Italy for the past 6 weeks if she...
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