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Amanda and her work has been featured in The Red Pencil Annual Report 2019. For the full report, visit 2019 Annual Report. The Red Pencil...

ART THERAPY AS A TOOL FOR BUILDING EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE Smart ParenThink Magazine Issue 2 Mar-Jul 2018 Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy, facilitated by an art therapist, which uses art materials and art making as part of the therapeutic treatment. It does not rely on artistic knowledge or ability and there is no right or wrong way of expressing yourself through art. By accessing imagination and creativity, it focuses on the process and not on the finished product. The

Art Therapy You may have heard of the term “art therapy” and wondered what it meant? Or perhaps watched a movie or television show where...

By Amanda Chen Art Therapy is more about the art making process, rather than the result or the grade, however there is an element of art education that still needs to be present. In the similar concept where words are not enough, where in some cases children have not developed the vocabulary and words to fully express how they feel, if the child does not have the basic art making skills, they would not be able to fully express themselves either. For the case of Ann* (names ha

ARTS FOR GOOD PROGRAM BY SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION 30 artists from over 10 nationalities convene in Chennai for the Arts For Good forum held by Singapore International Foundation. Arts educators, practitioners and programmers exchanged ideas and shared best practices to create positive social change through art at the Arts for Good Forum. Chennai, 22 February 2019 – The Arts for Good Forum, an international collaboration between the Singapore International Foundatio

The Red Pencil (Singapore) is a charity which provides art therapy to children in need, especially those from low-income families. Our founder and art therapist Amanda Chen is also an art therapist with The Red Pencil (Singapore) and has been featured in their 2018 Annual Report. An abstraction of the report as below. Since 2011, The Red Pencil (Singapore) team has been devoted to bring the benefits of arts therapy to many beneficiaries, working with partner organisations a