Community Art Projects
Community Art Projects
Intention
If art needs to be infectious (according to Leo Tolstoy), then art without an audience is ineffective. The best type of audience, for me personally, is the community at large. With community-building as an interest, I enjoy facilitating art workshops centering around collaborative themes and social causes.
If art needs to be infectious (according to Leo Tolstoy), then art without an audience is ineffective. The best type of audience, for me personally, is the community at large. With community-building as an interest, I enjoy facilitating art workshops centering around collaborative themes and social causes.
If art needs to be infectious (according to Leo Tolstoy), then art without an audience is ineffective. The best type of audience, for me personally, is the community at large. With community-building as an interest, I enjoy facilitating art workshops centering around collaborative themes and social causes.
Case Study
Research has proven that using hands to create (writing and drawing) has a more lasting impact on memory retainment and overall brain activity. For the work I dedicate for senior care centres, I facilitate art activities and mediums that are not only creative but also incorporate skills that encourage cognitive and social development.
In the case of a linocut workshop conducted at a senior care centre in Singapore, linocut as a medium allowed senior participants to use their cognitive and motor skills through constructing their own compositions on their greeting card design and focusing on the technicality of the carving process.
Research has proven that using hands to create (writing and drawing) has a more lasting impact on memory retainment and overall brain activity. For the work I dedicate for senior care centres, I facilitate art activities and mediums that are not only creative but also incorporate skills that encourage cognitive and social development.
In the case of a linocut workshop conducted at a senior care centre in Singapore, linocut as a medium allowed senior participants to use their cognitive and motor skills through constructing their own compositions on their greeting card design and focusing on the technicality of the carving process.
Research has proven that using hands to create (writing and drawing) has a more lasting impact on memory retainment and overall brain activity. For the work I dedicate for senior care centres, I facilitate art activities and mediums that are not only creative but also incorporate skills that encourage cognitive and social development.
In the case of a linocut workshop conducted at a senior care centre in Singapore, linocut as a medium allowed senior participants to use their cognitive and motor skills through constructing their own compositions on their greeting card design and focusing on the technicality of the carving process.
Process
The seniors were guided on how to draw up different types of lines and patterns to decorate the border of their greeting cards. They were then encouraged to come up with a unique image in the middle of the art piece with the help of visual aids and supplementary tools that encouraged artistic autonomy.
It was every senior participants’ first time in learning about the history of print and experiencing the medium. With every stage of the process planned out and facilitated for, the result is an artwork that is unique to the personality of each senior participant, with their own visual concepts being memorialized in print.
The seniors were guided on how to draw up different types of lines and patterns to decorate the border of their greeting cards. They were then encouraged to come up with a unique image in the middle of the art piece with the help of visual aids and supplementary tools that encouraged artistic autonomy.
It was every senior participants’ first time in learning about the history of print and experiencing the medium. With every stage of the process planned out and facilitated for, the result is an artwork that is unique to the personality of each senior participant, with their own visual concepts being memorialized in print.
The seniors were guided on how to draw up different types of lines and patterns to decorate the border of their greeting cards. They were then encouraged to come up with a unique image in the middle of the art piece with the help of visual aids and supplementary tools that encouraged artistic autonomy.
It was every senior participants’ first time in learning about the history of print and experiencing the medium. With every stage of the process planned out and facilitated for, the result is an artwork that is unique to the personality of each senior participant, with their own visual concepts being memorialized in print.
