Student-Led Inquiry
What it looks like when a student truly lives in inquiry: no fixed destination, no predetermined question, just making that knows where it’s going before the student does. Stages 4 and 5, with a full student exemplar.
Teaching from the Inside Out
On the boy who found his lost friends in a tent, the heart that sank at a flawless exhibition, and thirty years of undoing what my own art education taught me.
What People Don’t See: The Invisible Work of IB Visual Arts Teachers
In this musing, I speak directly to VA teachers everywhere to name the invisible complexity of our work, to acknowledge the uncertainty many are feeling as we navigate the new curriculum, and to remind you why the weight you carry is not a sign of failure but a reflection of the deeply human nature of our subject.
Turns Out My Brain is Fashionable Now.
Understanding my brain didn’t change who I am; it finally explained why I always felt out of place, and why the future seems oddly built for me.
Term 1 – Identity + Self: The Inner + Outer Worlds
This Musing gives an overview of Term 1, showing how our first Inquiry Thread has evolved into one monumental artwork that grows through painting, printmaking, mixed media, and sculpture.
Hollow Men Suite: Robert Motherwell and the Language of Shapes
Robert Motherwell’s Hollow Men Suite #7 (1986) reveals how simple shapes act as characters in dialogue; asserting, resisting, and transforming through repetition. This Musing explores visual weighting, mark-making, and the language of abstraction, showing how meaning emerges not from representation but from relation.
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.