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July 6, 2019 As part of the Merdeka Generation Celebration Open House at Pasir Ris Elias Community Club, Art for Good had the pleasure of conducting a lively Clay Art Workshop for residents of all ages. This community art initiative aimed to introduce participants to a new art-making experience while bringing people together through creativity. We worked with a colourful, easy-to-use, non-toxic, and child-friendly air-dry clay medium that allowed everyone to create with ease. Guided by our facilitators, participants shaped charming garden-themed figurines—caterpillars, bees, flowers, and ladybugs soon filled the tables. Some of the children went even further, letting their imagination run free with their own whimsical creations. (Keep an eye out—you might even spot a dinosaur!) Beyond the adorable artworks, the workshop encouraged self-expression, exploration, and fun, showing how creativity can flourish in unexpected ways. Invitations like these are close to our hearts, as they give us the chance to celebrate art as a joyful tool for connection and community building.

October 29, 2018 In 2018, we had the joy of designing and facilitating a heartwarming team bonding activity for MOE Psychological Services Branch (PSB). The mission was simple yet powerful: to create handmade teddy bears as Christmas presents for children with rare disorders from the Rare Disorders Society of Singapore (RDSS)—our charity partner, where we provide free clinical art therapy sessions for their beneficiaries. A total of 88 participants took part in this meaningful project. Working in teams, and even collaborating across groups rather than competing, they successfully produced 11 unique teddy bears—all within just two hours! Each bear was lovingly handcrafted from scratch, accompanied by a personalised message or story from the team that made it. The result was more than just toys. These teddy bears carried with them warmth, encouragement, and the spirit of giving. For the children of RDSS, they were a symbol of care and joy. For the MOE PSB participants, the project was a testament to teamwork, creativity, and the power of art to build meaningful connections. This special collaboration truly embodied our belief in building relationships through art, and using art to do good.

June 9, 2019 20 children with autism and their families turned up at The Artground for Mozart 36, a unique art-music experience. Designed by art therapist Amanda Chen from The Red Pencil – Humanitarian Mission, Singaporean concert violinist Tang Tee Khoon and animateur Sharon Sum from Tang Tee Khoon Grand Series, Mozart 36 encourages children to explore the connection between their emotions and art, and provides a sensory experience and stimulus for children with special needs or for those who are living in challenging circumstances. Animateur Sharon Sum first led the children with autism and their siblings to create big body movements with live Mozard music presented by British pianist Sam Haywood and Singaporean violinist Tang Tee Khoon. Subsequently, art therapist Amanda Chen taught them how to use soft pastels to express themselves on craft paper as the music played on. It was a joy to watch the children immerse themselves in this beautiful pairing of art and music. Even JY who had not shown much interest in art had a whale of a time playing with the mixture of colours under the special effect of live classical music. The session drew to an end as the music faded. It would have been difficult to send the children off if not for the visual arts space, Happy Homebodies designed by Gracie Chai, awaiting outside. We would like to thank Tang Tee Khoon Grand Series and The Red Pencil for extending the invitation to Friends of ASD Families. Our children were so blessed to have this interesting exposure to the arts. The families had great fun and were especially grateful that even the siblings could join in. Thank you Jessie Goh, Sharon, Kee Khoon, Sam, Amanda, art therapy students and volunteers for putting this event together for us. We took the opportunity to support Metta Cafe by getting some cookies baked by youths with special needs as a small token of appreciation for the whole team.

July 27, 2019 Commissioned Mural Projects Murals create a tangible sense of place by adding colour, vibrancy, and character to the environment. Murals contrast the negative mental health effects and can have therapeutic benefits. We have been commissioned to do murals and art installations, where we engage local artist talents. 2017 We were commissioned to paint the facade of KAMA Restaurant, this mural was sponsored by Budweiser. (Image 1) 2018 We created an inspirational wall at East Coast Primary School, where the children would later stick on their dreams, beliefs and achievements. The wall writes “Dream, Believe, Achieve”. (Image 2 & 3) 2017 Jovis Cafe commissioned us to paint a Psalm inspired mural, “As a Deer”. They loved it so much that they even installed lightings to enhance the mural. (Image 4) 2018 This was our biggest mural project at Clementi Woods Kindergarten. This project took 200 hours and 6 artists to complete over 10 days. (Image 5-9) Community Art – Team Bonding Mural Projects 2018 For YWCA children’s activity room, we created a superhero-themed art mural together with the beneficiaries from YWCA as well as the volunteers. (Image 1-3) 2018 Team bonding event organized for National University Hospital Department of Ophthalmology. This mural was created for Children’s Wishing Well to inspire the children. The theme was “Every Child is a Star”. The walls were painted with inspirational quotes and gold stars! (Image 4-6) 2018 For our Community Art Project in collaboration with Mural Lingo, we painted an animal shelter (BFF) for cats and dogs. The children from our Art Outreach Program were brought out to experience mural painting! (Image 7-9)

7 - 15 July, 2018 Passion Arts Festival is organised by People’s Association with the objective of bringing quality art programmes to the community by the community. For Passion Arts Festival 2018, Art for Good was engaged by various partners to provide art activities to the public. We were proud to be part of this community art project and we look forward to more engagements in future! Mug Painting Workshop with Heartbeat @ Bedok A 2-hour art workshop, where participants created mug designs with National Day theme. This workshop was open to participants of all ages and we were amazed at their creativity and designs! What a great way to be appreciative and grateful for the Singapore we have today. Food Art Workshop with Punggol CCAC We engaged children from the public in a food art workshop, art you can eat! We made the “Happy Dolphin”, “Shaun the Sheep” and “Dog and Bone” during the workshop. The children were thrilled and excited to make food art (and snack on them afterwards)! Art for Good Booth at Heartbeat@Bedok Heartbeat@Bedok generously provided a booth for us at their festival event, to promote our social enterprise Art for Good. We had participants stopping by our booth to write messages of encouragement for our beneficiaries who were struggling with difficult times. Most of the participants who stopped by were children. It was nice to see empathy, compassion and the giving spirit from such an early age. We also had a guest of honour, Member of Parliament, Mr. Lee Yi Shyan, stopping by our booth to find out more about what we do and how he can support. We are grateful for opportunities like these to explore how we can help more children through our organisation. Art Jamming Workshop with Bishan North CO / Thomson CC / Bishan East / Toa Payoh We had a mission to engage 100 participants to paint together in one day, and we did it! We had many participants dropping by at our Art Jamming booth at Toa Payoh Central to make art together. We had participants of all ages coming and joining us for this event. We had such an overwhelming response that we had to extend our booth for an additional 2 hours! For those who had dropped by that day to support our community event, we would like to say a big “Thank You!”.

July 27, 2019 In 2019, Art for Good had the wonderful opportunity to take part in the Pasir Ris Beach Art Festival, a community art initiative by the People’s Association. Set against the lively theme “Long Long Ago”, our team brought the beloved tale of The Little Mermaid to life in the Pasir Ris Park sand pit through an elaborate sand sculpture installation. The event featured three interactive components designed to delight and engage the community. At the heart of it stood the grand sand sculpture of the Little Mermaid, capturing the timeless story in intricate detail. Beside it, a playful mermaid’s tail sculpture invited festival-goers to strike a pose and imagine themselves as part of the undersea world. To complete the experience, a dedicated sand play area with toys allowed children to create their very own sculptures, encouraging hands-on fun and creativity. This initiative was part of the annual PAssionArts Festival, organised by the Community Arts and Culture Division (People’s Association). The festival’s mission is to bring quality arts programmes to the community—by the community—making art accessible, meaningful, and shared by all.

2018 Art for Good partnered with Jesuit Refugee Service Singapore (JRS) and Kumpulan ACTS (ACTS) to embark on an ongoing project to provide Art Therapy for refugees. The refugees from this project reside in a medical respite facility in Malaysia. Most of them have physical health issues, some are recovering while some are suffering from incurable or terminal illnesses. There is a mixed demographic of Burmese refugees. Art Therapy is provided to the refugees which include pre-school children, women, men and caregivers of the facility who may get burned out at times. Each workshop consists of a one-hour art therapy session. The objective of art therapy is to provide emotional support and therapeutic relief from their suffering. The project first started in November 2017 and continues regularly every 3-4 months. Art therapists are invited to join on a voluntary basis. JRS sponsors art materials, travel expenses, accommodation and food for the therapists over a 3-day period. Women Empowerment Project We empower the women from the facility by teaching them crafting skills. Art for Good organizes, sponsors the art materials, markets and sells their products to support these women. The intention of this project is to promote interaction, engagement and sustainable income for the women at the facility. Artists are invited to join us in Malaysia to teach them different crafting skills. The crafts taught include sewing, embroidery and decoupage. By learning new crafting skills, these women can make their own merchandises to create awareness and funding for this project. The merchandises are sold at our flea market booths in Singapore.

July 14, 2018 This community sports and art project “Paint-nalty” was sponsored by Sports SG and was open to the public. The children from our Art Outreach Program also participated in this event. Paint-covered soccer balls were kicked onto a canvas sheet that was stretched on a goal post, creating interesting designs and patterns. The event provided engagement for all ages, with participants as young as 4 years of age. The objective of the event was to promote the importance of sports and art among our community. A record was broken that day, with the Singapore Book of Records recognizing the event as the “Largest Artwork Made from Penalty Kicks”. We invited the public to join and help us break this record. We managed to gather around 100 participants to engage in this activity. The canvas from this event was then put to use in our social community art project, where we transformed the canvas into merchandises which are available for purchase. The project aims to bring more awareness towards the poverty situation in Singapore and raise funds for our Art Outreach Program. For our Art Outreach Program, we use art to connect with children from low-income families, where we provide free art enrichment classes to those who are not able to afford such classes.

June 21, 2021 Art For Good conducted an art expression workshop in collaboration with MINDSibs. This one and a half hour workshop was held over Zoom for the siblings of children with disabilities. The aim of the workshop was to encourage the siblings to use art to encourage creative expression and self-expression, and to create conversations about their relationships with their siblings who have autism.  The reality and gravity of the situation is that when the parents eventually pass away, the siblings are most likely needed to take over the role of the caregivers for their siblings with special needs and disabilities, who will be unable to independently care for themselves. Therefore, it is important to include siblings as part of the outreach and interventions. During the session, one noteworthy art activity involved encouraging the children to develop a drawing from two circles side by side. The children were to draw a representation of themselves on one circle, with their siblings with disabilities on the other circle. From how the children created the visuals and shared their feelings, we were able to have some insights on the existing relationships, both good and bad, between the siblings. All in all, we were glad that the session turned out to be extremely meaningful and enjoyable for the children, who got to develop their creativity to better understand and express themselves, and have some perspective to their relationship with their siblings with disabilities through art.  Despite the pandemic and restrictions, we were able to successfully conduct this session online via Zoom! We look forward to more meaningful collaborations and art workshops like these, if you are interested to collaborate with us, we would love to hear from you!

December 15, 2021 On 15 December 2021, we had the privilege of facilitating an Art and Mental Wellness Workshop alongside a lively Art Jamming Session for the staff, students, and alumni of Manchester Worldwide (South East Asia). The workshop was designed to highlight the importance of self-care and mental well-being, creating space for participants to slow down, reflect, and express themselves through mindful artmaking. The energy in the session was both calming and uplifting—proof that art can be a powerful tool for fostering resilience and balance. What made this event even more meaningful was its impact beyond the workshop itself. Together, Manchester Worldwide (South East Asia) raised $900 in support of the Art Therapy Programme for the Rare Disorders Society (Singapore). In addition, alumni session fees were also generously donated to the cause. On behalf of the children with disabilities from RDSS, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to the Manchester Worldwide community for their generosity, compassion, and commitment to making a difference through art.

20 November 2020 - 18 December 2020 Art for Good collaborated with  Youth Corps  on an Art Online project, which was to be conducted online by their youth volunteers, for children from low income families. By training the youths to conduct the art programs, we were able to reach out to a larger group of children who are in need.  There were three parts to this engagement which included an Introduction to Art Therapy and how to incorporate some art therapy best practices in their engagement with the children, the development of four art curriculums and training on teaching art online to the children from low income families aged 6-12.  Art Online Workshops were designed with specific themes in mind to encourage creativity, self expression, self exploration and self confidence. The themes included Anime Me (learning how to draw animes and having the children create their own), A Fun Self Portrait (a creative way to create a face by using all the icons and symbols of the things that they like), Good vs Bad (an exploration to what is good and bad within them) and Present & Future Self (a reflective artwork on who they are and who they would like to become).  These art sessions were a fantastic opportunity for the youth involved to engage the children through art activities, where they were able to get creative and explore their own personal feelings in a safe and supportive environment. During the lockdown, we were still able to run the training program and the art outreach to the children, with everything done online via Zoom! We look forward to more meaningful collaborations and art workshops like these. If you are interested to collaborate with us, we would love to hear from you! Please email us at hello@artforgood.sg !

January 2022 For our third Staff VIA team bonding activity with Hougang Primary School, we had the pleasure of organising a Soft Pastel Nagomi Art workshop—this time conducted entirely over Zoom. In preparation, we carefully packed individual art kits, ready for staff to collect from the school before the session began. Led by artist Zundeng, the workshop offered staff members a therapeutic and relaxing creative experience. Using soft pastels and gentle blending techniques, participants explored the calming process of Nagomi Art, where soft colours and simple shapes combine to create a sense of peace and mindfulness. The outcome was not only beautiful but deeply meaningful. Collectively, the Hougang Primary team created 130 handmade cards, each one unique and heartfelt. These cards were then mailed directly to children from the Rare Disorders Society (Singapore) as New Year’s greetings. The joy was tangible—children were delighted to receive personalised letters addressed just to them, bringing warmth and connection to start the year on a positive note. We are grateful to receive positive feedback messages from parents of the children from Rare Disorders Society of Singapore (RDSS).