Selected Resolved Artworks · Resolved Artworks
What does it mean for a resolved artwork to actually resolve something? This thread begins with what moderation revealed, and what it clarified about the heart of the new course.
The Artist Project
This is a live thread, starting with the proposal. It will grow to cover every section of the AP. Come back at each stage — there will always be something new here.
The Art-Making Inquiries Portfolio
Nobody has done this before. The AIP is genuinely new, and understanding it didn’t come from reading the guide. It came from teaching, from living inside it, and from finding the pattern that makes it legible. This thread is about that pattern, and what it means for how we teach.
Teacher-Led Inquiry
At this stage, inquiry is still held quite closely by the teacher. Students are learning how to respond, how to explore, and how to stay with something rather than rush to resolution.
Student-Generated Inquiry
A critical stage in IB Visual Arts occurs when students move from responding to teacher-led inquiry questions to generating their own.
This shift marks the transition from guided exploration to artistic authorship.
How to Assess the AIP Without the AIP
How do we assess the AIP without reducing it to slides? In this Musing I share why documentation should be treated as seeds for growth, not finished presentations, with practical strategies, a teacher reference sheet, and a student task you can use straight away.
Montage: Disruption, Context, and the Unconscious
This Musing guides teachers through the second project of Thread 1 (T1_P2: Montage + Identity). It shows how to introduce montage through Hannah Höch’s The Beautiful Girl, how to weave context through dialogue, and how to help students balance intuition with compositional logic.
Speaking Out on IB Visual Arts Assessment
Visual Arts is one of the most demanding IB Diploma subjects, yet it continues to be marked more harshly than any other.
With the 2027 guide now launched, the question remains: will anything change, or will history repeat itself?
Sharing the IB Course Plan
An updated two-year IB DP Visual Arts course plan aligned with the 2025–2027 guide. Includes week-by-week structure, inquiry-based projects, unit plans, and clear links to all assessment tasks; a flexible resource for teachers navigating the new syllabus.
Using Digital Tools
Digital tools are now essential in how students plan, refine, and present their work. From layout design in the AIP to final slide sequencing in the AP and CS, digital fluency directly shapes how meaning is communicated.