Art & Design Education
Across all grade levels, each project has an "essential question" to guide students and learning throughout the unit. The purpose of essential questions is not to have one answer, but rather to bring out new questions and new opportunities for exploration and curiosity. Each promotes divergent thinking, and thus endlessly diverse responses to the same question. The learning that takes place in this process not only helps students find their personal voice and technical skill in art, but even more importantly, helps serve as a metaphor for other experiences that they will have throughout their lives.
Sample essential questions:
How do our differences connect us?
How can an object create an experience?
Are advertisements art?
In what aspects of our lives do we find ourselves searching?*
*Student writing sample and testimonials bottom of page
Sample essential questions:
How do our differences connect us?
How can an object create an experience?
Are advertisements art?
In what aspects of our lives do we find ourselves searching?*
*Student writing sample and testimonials bottom of page
IB Visual Art / Advance Art samples (grades 11-12)
Row 1: 3 identity artworks by IB HL student, 3 memory artworks by IB HL student - Awarded 7 in Exhibitions
Row 2: 3 word artworks by IB HL student, 3 surrealism artworks by IB HL student - Awarded 7 in Exhibitions
Row 3: 3 square artworks by IB SL student, 3 texture artworks by IB SL student - Awarded 6 in Exhibitions
Row 4: 3 surrealism artworks by IB SL student - Awarded 5 in Exhibition, 3 identity artworks by Advanced Art student
Row 2: 3 word artworks by IB HL student, 3 surrealism artworks by IB HL student - Awarded 7 in Exhibitions
Row 3: 3 square artworks by IB SL student, 3 texture artworks by IB SL student - Awarded 6 in Exhibitions
Row 4: 3 surrealism artworks by IB SL student - Awarded 5 in Exhibition, 3 identity artworks by Advanced Art student
High School art project samples (grades 9-12)
Row 1: Studio Art 1 memory paintings, Studio Art 1 group tape murals
Row 2: Intermediate Art value drawings, Intermediate Art expressive hand cast-mould sculptures
Row 3: Intermediate Art synesthesia paintings, Advanced Photography projects
Row 4: Art Foundation kinetic drawings, Art Foundation final projects
Row 2: Intermediate Art value drawings, Intermediate Art expressive hand cast-mould sculptures
Row 3: Intermediate Art synesthesia paintings, Advanced Photography projects
Row 4: Art Foundation kinetic drawings, Art Foundation final projects
High School design project samples (grades 9-12)
From left to right: "Mixed-Media & Digital Design" collage/digital travel posters, Typography Design, Wallpaper Textile Design, "Design & Form" architecture maquettes, paper light sculptures, cardboard chairs, recycled material fashion design, set design models
Middle School art project samples (grades 6-8)
From left to right: Grade 6 papier-mâché mythical creatures, grade 6 abstract watercolor paintings, grade 6 "what if?" collagraphs, grade 7 graphite metamorphosis drawings, grade 7 assemblage identity boxes, grade 8 identity linocut prints on cloth, grade 8 clay shoes of the future, grade 8 surrealism landscape collages
Primary School art project samples (grades K-5)
From left to right: Kindergarten weavings, grade 1 relief faces in clay, grade 2 observational flower paintings, grade 3 superhero paintings, grade 4 box pinhole cameras, grade 5 wood dream houses
