Overseas Students Art & Cultural Exchange 学生艺术游学团 Calling all overseas students! Do you have a passion for art? Are you adventurous and love to travel and explore different countries? Visual Arts Centre is here to provide you a unique experience of art and culture in our Overseas Students Art & Cultural Exchange! Let us help …
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Art Buzz: How to Appreciate Art? Art Buzz: How to Appreciate Art? Have you ever went to a museum and felt really lost? Many thoughts may flood your head –Where do you begin? How do you approach an artwork? Indeed, it all boils down to the same question — How to appreciate Art? Louvre Museum …
Why Should Kids Learn Art From A Young Age? As children, we all loved creating things – be it folding paper airplanes and competing to see whose airplanes fly the furthest or making small and abstract sculptures out of plasticine or air clay. There is no hard and fast rule (unlike the many steps we …
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Salt of the Earth | VAC Student Exhibition《一切美好》学生展览 Visual Arts Centre is organising its first ever students art exhibition! Themed – Salt of the Earth, this exhibition seeks to celebrate the goodness of life! We warmly invite all art students to do their best in creating wonderful artworks for this exhibition! This exhibition, themed Salt of …
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Why should one practise Nude Life Drawing? Why so few art studios provide nude life drawing sessions is something we are never able to fathom, considering the many pros of nude life drawing sessions. After asking our friends, there seem to be a common consensus (which by the way are very wrong notions that we …
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Batik Facts! BATIK Interested to learn more about Batik? Join us in our upcoming BATIK HANDKERCHIEF WORKSHOP 2023 on 25 February, Saturday from 2pm to 4.30pm at our Macpherson Art Studio! This course is suitable for students 12 years old and above! Click to learn more about this workshop! Workshop Details: Date: 25 February 2023, …
下次游欧洲，你一定要带上速写本 Remember to Bring your Sketchbook on your Next Trip to Europe! In need of a holiday away from school or work commitments?Pack your bags and get ready to fly! Aren’t we all always excited to travel? We think of the food to eat and beautiful places to take in. When we arrive in Europe, we take in the beautiful landscapes and architecture surrounding you. Instinctively, we hold up our phones and cameras and off we go snapping away! But wait, is there anything else that we could do? Quick Sketching, as its name suggests, is the act of doing a quick …
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Art Jamming I am sure in this day and age, everyone has definitely heard of the term “Art Jamming”. The term “Art Jamming” is associated with people going to a nice little cafe hidden at an inconspicuous space somewhere in the most ulu place of Singapore. Some might even associate “Art Jamming” with hipsters who like to …
Chinese Ink Painting In rolls the new year, and along with that comes the long-awaited Chinese New Year! 新年快乐, 万事如意! To complement this auspicious traditional festival, this blog post will be all about the one medium of art that really represents the Chinese tradition: Ink Painting. We’ll be talking all about how to get started …
Meet Our Students! Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of an art student? What made them take up art? What motivates them to keep on creating despite the long, painful hours, the constant fixing of mistakes, the arm cramps, the paint-stained clothes… you get the idea. Well, wonder no more as …
Visual Arts Centre is an exhibition gallery and art studio at Dhoby Ghaut Green supported by the National Parks Board and the National Arts Council.
Since its initiation on 31 January 2016, the Visual Arts Centre Exhibition Gallery has hosted over two hundred international and local art and design exhibitions, boasting a diverse range of art styles and programmes.
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+65 6255 0711
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In the Batik Introduction Handkerchief Painting workshop, participants will learn the traditional art of batik, a wax-resist dyeing technique originating from Indonesia. The workshop begins with a brief history and overview of batik, highlighting its cultural significance and various techniques. Participants will then observe a demonstration of applying wax with tjanting tools and dyeing the fabric. Following the demonstration, each participant will design and create their own batik handkerchief, applying wax to create patterns and then dyeing their fabric. The workshop concludes with a group discussion, allowing participants to share their creations and reflect on their learning experience.
