Category: Malaysia

  • Deconstructing What You See and Do

    Ever quite recently, we took a bunch of our students on a college field-trip over to Petrosains KL. One couldn’t help but wonder why of all the places would we choose to go to Petrosains KL and well for starters, I hadn’t been there ever in my life. However, what made this trip fascinating was…

  • Re-imagining Bauhaus: Bring to life Art and Industry through Studio Practice in Design

    Being part of a design school means creating studio experiences using methods practiced by the ones who coined the various art movements and periods. In this article, we briefly give you a gist of how we break students into the game of multidisciplinary studio practice!

  • Carnations and Daisies: The Garden of Love

    A visual journey of love and friendship represented through symbolic turns in life and the colors of one’s love story. Read about my experience in creating a visual tale for two of the closest friends who met by chance and fell in love.

  • MUSE 2.0: An A-Muse-ing Exhibition of Art and Design during the Pandemic

    As the learning never stops growing, neither does the growing stop evolving. This year’s Muse Exhibition showcases an expression of their personal experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. The art show features 28 ICAD staffs’ expression and experience that reflects on one of ICAD’s Manifestos while responding to current issues.

  • An Art Educator’s Journal: Flipping the Class Getty Museum Style

    Whoever said you cannot teach art in the form of distance learning; really needs to cut themselves some slack and get inspired by some of the internet trending challenges. Through the last couple of working-from-home weeks, there have been a least a dozen of ideas trending on my social media feed. However, the most popular…

  • A Potter’s Diary Part 4: One Adventure Completed

    It is finally completed! But it has taken me more than a month to pen my thoughts down. Honestly, it was more of being busy in the real life with any bare time to sit down and share my experience. Nevertheless, since I am here I will also share on my currently work in progress!…

  • A Potter’s Diary Part 3: Patience results beauty

    First and foremost, I must admit that this art is going to me a while to conquer and master. Nevertheless, I told myself I am going to master it and I will. So moving forward, I am going to share the update on my previously completed clay works. They have all undergone their first firing…

  • A Potter’s Diary Part 2: Taking Risks

    So moving forward from Lesson 1, I was now introduced to making my own clay glue which is called a slip. A gluey substance that allows you to glue your pieces together. In a way, it is similar to cement for clay. So another creation was made a forest themed vase. But this was only…

  • A Potter’s Diary-Part 1: The Journey Begins

    Yes tis’ be true! One of the many traditional skills I’ve wanted to master above all is the art of pottery. And no, this has nothing to do with the classic wheel throwing scene from Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. So after months of searching around, I finally found a quaint little place…

  • Indulging in Arts and Culture

    So this time around, I decided to write about my trip to the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (www.iamm.org) and along with me I tagged my students along. For them, it was research, but for me it was looking at the same things but for a different perspective at the arts on display. There is always…