Many of you have submitted your Artist Story biographies, and they are fantastic. This is going to be a great IB class group of artists! I am in the process of emailing you all back with individual feedback. What I am doing is looking carefully at what you said, pulling out the themes behind your words, and matching you with a few artists that I think might resonate well with you as an artist. If your work in IB Visual Art is not personally relevant or interesting to you, then we need to work together to change something that will make your study more meaningful and more rewarding.
Why do you need a theme?
You will be creating a coherent body of work that you will show in your IB Exam Exhibit in April of your senior year, along with a Process Journal explaining your research and reasoning behind your work and demonstrating your artistic process in depth. You will also submit a Comparative Study presentation, based on independent study of 3-4 related artists across time and cultures. All of these exam components should flow clearly and cohesively so that the examiner can follow your journey, and the best way to do that is thematically.
This presentation is designed to help you focus on broad questions that will help you begin finding a theme. You want to stay broad, stay curious and dig deeper to see what you can find out at this stage. Be careful not to eliminate ideas too quickly. Let them percolate and see where you land.
When you are ready to begin, start here: