IB VISUAL ARTS

           

“The International Baccalaureate Organization aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

            The Diploma Programme visual arts course enables students to engage in both practical exploration and artistic production, and in an independent contextual, visual and critical investigation.  It is designed to enable students to study visual arts in higher education and welcomes those students who seek life enrichment through visual arts.”  (IBO Diploma Programme Guide)

 

           

CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS:

Students will:

  1. Come to class with a positive attitude, ready to create and support the creation of others
  2. Show respect for themselves, their peers, their teacher, and their environment
  3. Arrive on time with all supplies necessary for success

 

 

EVALUATION

In consultation with your teacher, you will decide which option you are working towards.  A final decision will be made early in year 2.

 

·        Option A: 60% Studio and 40% Investigation Workbook

·        Option B: 40% Studio and 60% Investigation Workbook

 

Ø      Informal evaluation will occur throughout the production of artworks.

Ø      Investigation workbooks will be submitted for critique after each artwork is completed (approximately once a month).

Ø      Year-one students will meet as a group once a week during a lunch hour to critique artistic progress, discuss program concerns, develop skills and techniques, etc.

Ø      A one-on-one discussion and formal assessment of all studio pieces and IWB will be completed during the week prior to the midterm and end of semester.

 

 

REQUIRED SUPPLIES

Students must purchase the following materials, and are required to arrive with them daily.

You will need to supply additional materials for specific artworks.

 

 

Summarized Markband Descriptors

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

STUDIO

 

·         Understanding of ideas and techniques that underpin artistic expression

 

·         Production of personally relevant artwork that explore and reflect cultural and historical awareness

 

·         Development of ideas and strategies for expression

 

·         Sensitivity to materials and their uses

 

·         Technical competence

 

·         Confidence

 

·         Self-direction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INVESTIGATION WORKBOOK

 

·         Analysis and consideration of the significance and function of art from different cultures and times

 

·         Development of skills, techniques and processes

 

·         Investigation, study and connections with a range of visual qualities, ideas and contexts.

 

·         Depth and breath of development and synthesis of ideas and connections between your art and that of others.

 

·         Use of the vocabulary of visual arts

 

·         Use of a range of sources and proper acknowledgment of these sources

 

·         Presentation of the work and critical observation and reflection

 

·         Close relationship between studio and IWB