Media Exploration and Making Connections

A distinctive expectation of the Visual Arts course is that students explore a range of media and connect their studio practice to the work of other artists and to the wider world. This lesson looks at how to explore media meaningfully and how to build the connections that give personal work depth and context.

Exploring a range of media

Working across different media — drawing, painting, print, sculpture, digital, lens-based, mixed — expands what you can express and helps you discover which means best suit your intentions. Media exploration is not about dabbling superficially in as many techniques as possible; it is about investigating which media genuinely serve your line of inquiry and understanding the character of each. Each medium carries its own possibilities and associations, and ch