IB Visual Arts

Visual Arts IB HL 1 is a yearlong course. Students enrolled in this course will investigate past, present, and emerging forms of Visual Arts. Students will produce, evaluate, and develop an understanding of the visual arts from a local, national, and international perspective. Students will produce a minimum of 100 pages in a Visual Art Journal to support, inform, develop, and refine studio work through sustained contextual and visual critical investigation. The Visual Art Journal is integral to studio practice and should reflect the student’s critical visual and written investigation. Students are required to complete a portfolio of work throughout the year with a focus on investigating a variety of subject matter and processes. Some of this work could be used in and toward final HL2 Exhibition (EX) task. Curation and critique will be a focus in preparation for the HL 2. The compiled information accumulated in their Visual Art Journal (VAJ) will be the integral evidence to support their Process Portfolio (PP), Comparative Study (CS) and Exhibition (EX) components which will culminate in its final development and formally assessed both internally and externally in year two, semester two of Visual Arts IB HL 2.

Length of Course: Year

Open to Grade: 11

Prerequisite: Minimum requirement is successful completion of Art 1 and portfolio review recommended. Preferred requirement are successful completion of Art 1 and Drawing and Painting with grades of “A” and/or teacher recommendation.

Note: Students enrolled in this course are required to take Visual Arts IB HL 2 the following year to fulfill the two year Visual Arts IB HL commitment

Visual Arts IB HL 2 is the continuation of the Visual Arts IB HL 1 course. Students enrolled in this course will continue to investigate past, present, and emerging forms of Visual Arts. Students will produce, evaluate, and develop an understanding of the visual arts from a local, national, and international perspective. Students will continue the production of their investigation workbook to support, inform, develop, and refine studio work through sustained contextual and visual critical investigation. The investigation workbook is integral to studio practice and should reflect the student’s critical visual and written investigation. Students are required to complete a personal statement based on their experience documenting their growth from their investigation and process of art making. Students are required to complete a portfolio of work, an investigation workbook, and an interview with an examiner about their work. If the student chooses Higher Level Option A, their focus will be 60% studio work, and 40% investigation workbook. If Higher Level Option B is chosen, the students focus will be 60% Investigation Workbook and 40% studio work. Both options A & B require the completion of a Candidate Record Booklet, which consists of 3 parts; IWB’s best pages, studio works, and student’s personal statement.

Length of Course: Year

Open to Grade: 12

Prerequisite: Successful completion of Visual Arts IB HL 1 with grade of A both semesters and/or teacher recommendation.