Sylvia Chan

So a child says, “I am not an artist” What can you do to help a child who doesn’t want to make art? If you have a child or if you work with children, you will have experience a time when a child refuse to take part in an art project. What happens when your […]

How many of you when thinking about creativity, associate it with the arts? Probably a handful of people would raise their hand on this question. A couple of months ago, while planning for this art event, I came across a colleague of mine who simply told me, that he was flat-out not creative. When asked

The crowd that you hang out with influences your actions – and ultimately the way you think. So today I have to ask myself… Are you hanging out with people that inspire you? Are you hanging out with people that stretch you outside your boundaries? Are you hanging out with people that get you thinking

So You Don’t Think you are Creative? Ever heard of the comments, “I am just practical, not an artist, ” “I am not an artist” or flat out “I can’t do art.” There are people that believe if individuals aren’t born with creativity, they will never be creative. This to me made me think of

Had a bit of a reflection time on this aspect: Leadership. How many of you have taken on a leadership position? If you have, you would know, how it is like to work with a team. Within a team, you have people coming from different backgrounds. To the person leading a team, it is of

“Have you ever been asked to dim your light? Please get out of that room immediately.” This was a phrase taken from a tedtalk I watched recently. Have someone ever asked you to dim your light? To be less of who you are? Where in the moments you were simply being, you were judged, and

When life wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies. When I was in high school, I would often ask people “what do you think of my art?” Even when they said it was great, I was skeptical and thought there was something more I could do to make it better. Despite winning every art award in my

Definition of resilience: a person able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. Can you recall your own setback or ‘failure’? Perhaps it was a setback in health, a failure in a relationship or a physical injury. For some people it hurts emotionally and they tell themselves to never putthemselves into that situation again.