G11 Year 1

InThinking Student Access Link: https://student.thinkib.net/group/CKNQ238

The New Visual Arts Curriculum

Simplified: The course is easier to follow, with fewer assessments that focus more on quality and deep thinking.
Cross-Subject Connections: You’ll get to connect your art with other subjects and your own life, showing how everything can inspire creativity.
Curating Your Work: You'll learn how to present your art in meaningful ways, thinking about how others will see and understand it.
Global Inspiration: You'll explore art from different cultures and parts of the world to expand your perspective and inspire your own work.
Future-Focused: The course encourages you to think about the environment and try new technologies when creating your art.

Three Core Areas

Create: You’ll explore different materials and techniques (more than one), develop your own art style, and learn how to take your ideas from rough drafts to finished pieces. You’ll experiment, take risks, and improve through practice and feedback.

Communicate: You’ll learn how to talk and write about your art clearly, make thoughtful choices about how to present it, and think about how others experience your work. You’ll also practice sharing and discussing art with others.

Connect: You’ll look at art from around the world and different times to inspire your own work. You’ll think about how your art fits into your life, culture, and the wider world, and how it can speak to different people.

Seven Assessment Objectives

Curate visual and written materials, including both developing and resolved artworks, to communicate artistic intentions and present their art-making practice.

Investigate art-making forms and creative strategies, as well as meaning and cultural significance of artworks within and across contexts.

Generate intentions and artworks through inquiry and the application of creative strategies.

Refine artistic intentions and their own art-making through investigation, dialogue and critical reflection as part of inquiry.

Resolve artworks to fulfil artistic intentions and convey meaning.

Situate their own artworks and art-making, as well as those of other artists, in relation to context(s), audience(s) and communities of artistic practice.

Synthesize concept and form through creative and curatorial practices to create artworks, communicate artistic intentions and connect with audience(s).

What does this look like directly in IB

What This Means for You

This chart tells you:

What the IB expects you to do as an art student.
Which parts of your process (journal, research, final artworks) are graded, and how.
That your whole journey—from idea to final artwork to explanation—is important.

Each task is linked to a group of skills. You won’t just be graded on how your art looks, but also on:

How you thought about it
How you developed it
How you connected it to artists and the world
How clearly you explain it to others

Assessment for Standard Level (SL):

This section shows which assessment objectives are evaluated in each of the three final tasks for SL students:

Art-making inquiries portfolio
(Your process work: journaling, research, planning, material exploration)
Assesses: Curate, Investigate, Generate, Refine, Resolve
Connections study
(A written/visual analysis comparing two artists to contextualize your own work)
Assesses: Curate, Investigate, Situate
Resolved artworks
(A final set of 5 artworks + rationale)
Assesses: Curate, Generate, Resolve, Synthesize

Assessment for Higher Level (HL):

HL students do more work and are assessed on three different tasks:

Art-making inquiries portfolio
(Same as SL—your journal and process work)
Assesses: Curate, Investigate, Generate, Refine, Resolve
Artist project
(HL version of the connections study—a more in-depth, stand-alone artist-inspired artwork)
Assesses: Curate, Investigate, Situate, Refine
Selected resolved artworks
(A curated body of 5 final artworks, rationale, and contextualization)
Assesses: Curate, Resolve, Situate, Synthesize

There is a LOT of overlap, but here’s a simplified breakdown of how the objectives relate:

CREATE

Generate – coming up with ideas and artworks
Refine – developing and improving your ideas and skills
Resolve – completing artworks that match your intentions

CONNECT

Investigate – researching artists, materials, and meanings
Situate – placing your work in the context of other art, cultures, and audiences

COMMUNICATE

Curate – selecting and organizing work to show your process or ideas
Synthesize – bringing ideas and visuals together to express meaning clearly

Understanding Your Assessment

SL Requirements

SL Simplified:

1. Art-Making Inquiries Portfolio (40%)

This is a portfolio that shows how you explore ideas, experiment with materials, and develop your thinking as an artist.

Submit up to 15 screens (a mix of images, sketches, writing, etc.)
Focus on one or more lines of inquiry (big questions or themes you explored)
Show your process, research, and artistic development
Maximum total word count: 3,000 words
Include a separate list of sources

2. Connections Study (20%)

This task is about comparing one of your artworks to other artists’ work to show how context and culture influence art.

Choose one of your finished artworks
Compare it to at least two artworks by different artists
Explain similarities and differences in meaning, technique, and context
Submit up to 10 screens (visuals and writing)
Maximum total word count: 2,500 word
Include a separate list of sources

3. Exhibition – Internal Assessment (40%)

This is your final presentation of your best finished artworks.

Submit 5 finished (resolved) artworks
Include short texts for each work (up to 500 words total across all five)
Write a rationale (up to 700 words) explaining your theme and how you chose your artworks
Submit 5 image or video files (each video can be up to 3 minutes)
Total writing across all parts should not exceed 1,000 words

How to Be Successful:

Stay consistent with your chosen themes or questions
Use a variety of materials and techniques
Reflect often on your work and choices
Make clear connections between your work and other artists or ideas

HL Requirments

HL Simplified

1. Art-Making Inquiries Portfolio (40%)

This portfolio shows your creative process, including how you develop ideas, experiment, and reflect.

Submit up to 15 screens with visuals and written commentary
Focus on one or more lines of inquiry (big questions/themes)
Demonstrate your research, experimentation, and artistic growth
Maximum total word count: 3,000 words
Include a separate list of sources

2. Artist Project (30%)

This is a personal project based on a theme or question that you choose and explore from start to finish.

Create one final resolved artwork that reflects a focused inquiry
Show how your work was influenced by at least two artists and by context
Submit up to 10 screens with visuals and writing
Include a video (up to 3 minutes) presenting the final artwork and its context
Include a short written description for the video (maximum 100 words)
Maximum total written word count: 2,500 words
Include a separate list of sources

3. Exhibition – Internal Assessment (40%)

This is your final showcase of your strongest artworks, accompanied by writing.

Submit 5 finished (resolved) artworks
Include short texts (up to 500 words total) explaining each piece
Write a rationale (up to 700 words) explaining your ideas and choices
Submit 5 image or video files (each video up to 3 minutes)
Total writing across all parts must not exceed 1,000 words

How to Be Successful:

Show deep thinking and creativity throughout your work
Make clear links between your art and the world around you
Use feedback and self-reflection to improve
Be thoughtful in how you present and explain your art

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