teaching

Part-time faculty, Cultural Dimensions in Art Therapy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2023) | Chicago, IL

This graduate course is focused on the development of cultural competency in the art therapist. Aspects of culture including gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion, sexual orientation, and disability are addressed as they relate to the socio-cultural context of the therapy relationship.


Expressive Arts Facilitator, Expressive Arts Courses in Elementary Schools (2018-2019) | Hong Kong

A weekly extracurricular program of Expressive Arts Training for four elementary schools for students aged between 8-12 years old across the academic year. The curriculum highlights emotional expression, confidence building, effective collaboration and communications.


Expressive Arts Facilitator & Founder, Dialogical and Expressive Arts Classes (2018-2019) | Youth Square Chai Wan, Hong Kong

Dialogue in Art is a studio space where individual expressive and dialogical exchanges take place through art. In a spacious, well-lit, and relaxing environment, we use painting, clay work, drawing, and many other creative activities, to explore topics that matter to us.


Expressive Arts Facilitator, Art At Home (2019) | Hong Kong

A community-based program was initiated to drive sustainable conversations between children and caregivers through art by adapting Dialogue in Art, which was a public art set up in a youth square, to a home setting so that more families can be empowered to communicate through art in their owning living environment.


Expressive Arts Facilitator, Imagined Tour (2019) | The Warehouse Teenage Club, Hong Kong

A community programming that aims to lead participants with mobility challenges to travel to an undiscovered territory through somatic experiences including sound, visual, language, and smell. The traveling experiences are then captured in the collective postcard-making.


Expressive Arts Facilitator, Communication in Style at Workplace (2018) | Sovereign Trust, Hong Kong

A corporate intervention for a diverse body of the workforce in the financial industry to explore the differences of communication styles across cultures through collaborative art-making for fifty participants.


Expressive Arts Facilitator, Creative Narrative Tour (2018) | Times Nursery School, Hong Kong

A series of classroom interventions using narrative to bring imagination to life with Kindergarten students in Hong Kong.

A story of a Gingerbread person takes on an adventure through sound only in the dark. As the journey kicks off, one student said they ‘saw’ a bird. ‘What’s the color of the bird?’ ‘It’s a yellow one, the kind of small, fluffy, and active bird.’ Kids around nodded and agreed in the dimmed classroom.


Expressive Art Class at University (2018) | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

A series of classes designed for university students and Alumni to explore self and emotions through experiential learning including guided visualization, sensory exercises, guided reflection, and art-making.


Building Creative Activist Team (2018) | Hong Kong Scout Association, Hong Kong

A facilitated session for youth activism leaders to reflect on their positionality in relation to the collective environment they are in through art.


Summer Outside of Hospital Group (2018) | Yan Chai Hospital Group, Hong Kong

Family-based storytelling and collaborative art-making to reimagine summer outside of the hospital group and communication through art for 20 family units.


Rooting for the Chinese Traditions (2018) | Hong Kong Scout Association, Hong Kong

An outdoor creative intervention aims to connect thirty youth members with their cultural roots through the exploration of colors and patterns.


Expressive Arts at Workplace (2017) | SAA Architect, Singapore

A class that aims to facilitate fifty participants to reflect and visualize the present and future self through individual and collaborative creative processes.


Social And Cultural Impact on Identity Formation (2016) | Flor Gallery, Singapore

A series of public workshops and discussion forums that examine the emotional implications and identity formation in relation to the social and cultural influences, held jointly with Wong’s solo exhibition, What The Songs Have Taught Me, which consists of twelve paintings integrated with popular Cantonese contemporary culture for the Singaporean community.