Process Portfolio

Task summary

The Process Portfolio is an externally examined assessment task worth 40% of the overall IB mark.

To complete the task, you are required to present a record of your artistic journey. It is an opportunity to document how you come up with your ideas, evidence your artistic process, experiment with media, learn from mistakes and study other artists and artworks.

Your screens will show evidence of the following 5 criteria:

Skills, Techniques and Processes

EXPERIMENT refers to your development of skills/techniques using the materials across the required art making forms. It is rare that a musician can perform in any sort of heartfelt or refined way the first time they try. It's the same in art, we need to practice before we can create something we feel confident about. Your goal is to experiment with media, techniques, and skills so that you can learn about art making though your own will and exploration. You want to create purposeful pages that show you are trying to figure our how to visually express the ideas in your proposal.

Critical Investigation

INVESTIGATE specifically refers to investigation of artists, works, art forms. It includes both the investigation itself and the consideration of how it relates to/influences/guides your work. Your goal is to provide evidence of how your investigation into another artist, style, movement, iconographic study, historical study etc has impacted your work.

Communication of Ideas and Intentions

COMMUNICATE developing ideas and intentions, both visually and verbally. Your goal is to document how your idea developed while you were experimenting with different media and techniques. Practice sketching your ideas and figure out which imagery is going to be the best for expressing your idea.

Reviewing, Reflecting, Refining

REFLECT means to develop a self awareness around your artistic process and growth as an artist. Your goal is to show your ability to reflect on your growth through both successes and failures as well as how you have grown overall.

Presentation and Subject Specific Language

PRESENT refers to the overall presentation of the screen. By screen, we mean that your page is digitally submitted to the IB so you can make your screens using a digital format or you can scan pages from your visual journal and combine them with text. Your goal is you create visual engaging, clear and legible screens that demonstrate your visual literacy.

Formal Requirements