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 its annual IB Diploma Students' Visual Arts Exhibition at a public art gallery, BankArt Studio NYK, in Yokohama. Fifteen graduating YIS Grade 12 students will exhibit their studio work in a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, installation, graphic design, fashion design and digital media. YIS community members are warmly invited to visit the exhibition, which will be open to the public from 11:30 am to 7:00 pm Tuesday, April 6th through Sunday, April 11th.

Exhibiting Students

The YIS IB Diploma Students' Visual Arts Exhibition 2010 at BankArt Studio NYK is made possible through the generous support of HSBC Premier and the YIS Parent, Teacher, Student Association.

About the IB Diploma Visual Arts course at YIS

The two-year IB Visual Arts course is an 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 and critical processes and skills that will enable them to create effective art and design. Projects are 'student led' and students choose their own areas of interest to research and explore and are facilitated by the teacher. In their Independent Workbooks, students research work from other artists and cultures. They then synthesize this with their own ideas through writing, sketches and experimentation to develop their own concepts through to a resulting, completed piece, referred to as the Studio Work, which can take any form in any media. This exhibition of their work is mounted at the end of their course and students are interviewed and the work assessed by an IB Visual Arts examiner in situ.

See the online YIS Visual 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

BankArt Studio NYK is a 3-minute walk from Exit 6 of Bashamichi Station on the Yokohama Minato Mirai Line.

Click here to download map.

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

Also, we are currently looking for volunteers to staff the gallery during some of those hours when YIS visual arts staff are unable to be there. If you have a few hours to spare to be at the gallery, greet visitors, and just keep an eye on things, we would be very grateful for your assistance. And of course you'd have a chance to explore the exhibit at your leisure.

If you are interested and available, please click on the following link to access the online signup, which lists the timeslots for which we are seeking volunteers.

http://www1.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=ibart2010