YIS IB Diploma Students’ Visual Arts Exhibit at BankArt Studio NYK April 6-11

Yokohama International School

IB Diploma Students'
Visual Arts Exhibit 2010

BankArt Studio NYK

April 6-11, 2010

This year, for the first time, YIS will hold itsannual IB Diploma Students' Visual Arts Exhibition at a public art gallery,BankArt Studio NYK, in Yokohama. Fifteen graduating YIS Grade 12 students willexhibit their studio work in a wide range of media, including painting,sculpture, ceramics, installation, graphic design, fashion design and digitalmedia. YIS community members are warmly invited to visit the exhibition, which willbe open to the public from 11:30 am to 7:00 pm Tuesday, April 6th throughSunday, April 11th.

ExhibitingStudents

The YIS IB Diploma Students' Visual Arts Exhibition2010 at BankArt Studio NYK is made possible through the generous support ofHSBC Premier and the YIS Parent, Teacher, Student Association.

Aboutthe IB Diploma Visual Arts course at YIS

The two-year IB Visual Arts course isan optional subject that may be taken as one of six subjects leading to the IB Diploma.The course aims to help students develop the necessary research, practical andcritical processes and skills that will enable them to create effective art anddesign. Projects are 'student led'and students choose their own areas of interest to research and explore and arefacilitated by the teacher. Intheir Independent Workbooks, studentsresearch work from other artists and cultures. They then synthesize this withtheir own ideas through writing, sketches and experimentation to develop theirown concepts through to a resulting, completed piece, referred to as the StudioWork, which can take any form in any media. This exhibition of their work ismounted at the end of their course and students are interviewed and the workassessed by an IB Visual Arts examiner insitu.

See the online YISVisual Arts Galleries for examples of student art works.

For further information on the IB Diploma Students'Visual Arts Exhibit 2010 or the Visual Arts program at YIS, please contact James McCrory, Head of Visual Arts.

Directions to BankArt Studio NYK

BankArtStudio NYK is a 3-minute walk from Exit 6 of Bashamichi Station on the YokohamaMinato Mirai Line.

Click hereto download map.

See alsoBankArt website: http://www.bankart1929.com/ (Japanese)