Weaving Workshop: A Cultural Learning Programme for Developing Young Minds

Ketupat weaving is one exercise that expose Malay cultural heritage to students. Weaving is a centuries-old art form that has been practiced by cultures all over the world. It is a complex and challenging craft that requires patience, creativity, and a keen eye for detail. Weaving can also be a very therapeutic and meditative activity,... Continue Reading →

Teambuilding activity at Staff Retreat – Copper Tooling team challenge.

https://videopress.com/v/h2Af6Ay1?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true View video of how the staff was able to produce a beautiful framed artwork by working together as a team. The event starts with our artist providing the instruction, on how to create a copper tooling art, an ancient art technique that dates back thousands of years. Participants then complete an individual piece for... Continue Reading →

Visual Arts Excursion to Artist Studio.

A learning journey for students to learn about industrial practice of a textile artist. They experience first hand the dying craft of batik and indigo dyeing process. Our facility have the capacity to engage a full class of 40 students for 2-hours to produce usable art. Students were introduced to batik textile and engaged hands-on... Continue Reading →

Art Enrichment Programme for Schools with Gov Grants

Happy new year! We are happy to announce our line up of school programmes for the year 2023 approved by our National Arts Council and Ministry of Education to engage school students in the arts. We have varied programmes for different levels from preschool, primary to secondary schools as well as tertiary institution. We are... Continue Reading →

Cartoon Caricature Draw-Along Other Than The Human Face

This school could not get enough of my assembly talk last year and wanted more. So for this zoom session broadcasted to the entire school, we expanded the scope by talking about caricaturing objects and animals. We talked about anthropomorphism and demonstrated how to humanise a parrot to mark a significant event - the relocation... Continue Reading →

Student Excursion to Working Artist Studio and Gallery Visit

Mrs Kamal explaining to student the batik hot wax stamping process at the studio. We hosted a group of young ladies who were very keen to learn about batik-painting process and got a tour of our working studio in-between experiencing the use of traditional tools such as the Tjanting for themselves and producing a large... Continue Reading →

Team Bonding Art Activity for Company Retreat

The amazing sense of achievement in creating art together from scratch. Hard to imagine at the start they would produce large batik paintings and a personal piece of authentic batik art. The team building batik painting introduces participants to what is batik fabric and batik-paintings in our multi cultural society. They will be taught by... Continue Reading →

In-School Caricature Drawing Class for CCA Students

Learning to observe the face for distinctive features and nailing the likeness with lightning speed. The teacher was kind enough to be the model for a 10 minute demonstration. Such a delight to be drawing with a lovely bunch post-pandemic. Comparatively, it was awkward teaching online as you don’t get depth perception when drawing from... Continue Reading →

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