Join LASALLE's postgraduate community for a cosy evening of sharing sessions by industry professionals, lecturers and current postgraduate candidates on what it means to be a Master of Arts.

Chat with our alumni and other like-minded individuals who have taken (or are thinking of taking) the plunge to research their practice and build on their careers in the arts.

You know you've been thinking about it. Have a drink on us and consider your next step back to (art) school - but this time, to do what you want with the support of a handpicked supervisor and a community of creative professionals in an integrated arts campus where it all begins with ©your ideas, your creativity, your future.

 

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First 2 drinks on us followed by 1-for-1 all night for LASALLE guests. Please indicate 'POSTGRAD ©NITE' in the subject line and your interested chatter session, e.g. 'MA DESIGN' in your email.

 

Chatter by
MA Art Therapy
Elizabeth Coss - Art Therapist (New York University, USA)
MA Fine Arts
Ian Woo - Artist (Singapore)
MA Design
Isabel Löfgren - Design Consultant (Brazil/Sweden)
MA Art History
Jeffrey Say - LASALLE Art History Candidate (Singapore)
MA Arts & Cultural Management
Mary Loh - Events Marketing & Public Relations Consultant (Singapore)

 

Guided tour
Tour of LASALLE's New City Campus at 9.00pm upon request (less than 2 minute walk from Night & Day)

 

Space by

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LASALLE Master of Arts - Aug 2008 Intake
LASALLE's MA programmes are Singapore’s first postgraduate degrees in practice-based art and design, developed and delivered by LASALLE and validated by The Open University, UK. Our Master's alumni hail from diverse backgrounds and established practices in art making, research, education, management or therapies. These include designers Ginette Chittick (FrüFrü & Tigerlily), Nadya Perwitasari (Saatchi & Saatchi); artists Ana Prvacki (Singapore Biennale), Francis Ng (Venice Biennale), Gilles Massot, Jeremy Sharma (Della Butcher Award), Khairuddin Hori (Wunderspaze), Lawrence Tio (Asian Civilisations Museum), Lee Wen (Cultural Medallion), Rizman Putra (JCCI Arts Award for KYTV); arts manager Yuni Hadi (21st Singapore International Film Festival); and art therapist Laurence Vandenborre (Raffles Hospital).

 

Click on the respective links below for more about the respective courses. To apply, please go to Applications .

• Master of Arts Art History
• Master of Arts Art Therapy
• Master of Arts Arts and Cultural Management
• Master of Arts Design
• Master of Arts Fine Arts
• Master of Arts Media Arts

 

Speakers' Bio

Elizabeth Coss

Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC)
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) in New York State, United States of America
Master of Arts in Art Therapy, New York University, United States of America
Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies, University of Southern California, United States of America

Professional Achievements

• Previously a faculty member at New York University's Department of Art Therapy for five years where she trained many future art therapists.
• Also previously the supervisor of Creative Arts Therapies for the Department of Psychiatry for a major New York City hospital where she supervised creative arts therapists and trained attending doctors, residents and medical students in the use of art therapy.
• Presented at Grand Rounds and developed one of the first art therapy programmes in a psychiatry emergency room in New York City.
• Worked extensively with children and families in hospitals, hospice, foster care settings, schools and in private practice.
• Co-authored a chapter on art therapy in a book on alternative therapies with Dr. Steven Schachter who is in the Associate Director of Clinical Research for Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies at Harvard Medical School.

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Ian Woo

Programme Leader Postgraduate Studies - Masters of Art in Fine Arts
Recent publication includes Contemporary Art in Singapore- Gunalan Nadarajan, Russell Storer and Eugene Tan- published by The Institute of Contemporary Art/LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts.

Professional Achievements

• Has exhibited extensively in the area of paintings and site installation art work in both local and international quarters. Examples include - ARCO - Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo - Madrid, Spain and the recent solo exhibition "The Thing It Saw at the Plastique Kinetic Worms", in Singapore.
• Developed public artwork for the Art in Transit project by Land Transport Authority at the Harbourfront North East Line Train Station.
• His work in the area of contemporary painting has been discussed extensively via internet, publications, seminars and collections.
• Recent publication includes Contemporary Art in Singapore - Gunalan Nadarajan, Russell Storer and Eugene Tan - published by The Institute of Contemporary Art/LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts.

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Isabel Löfgren

Master of Fine Arts in Experimental Visual Languages/ Art Theory and Contemporary Art, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, Smith College, United States of America

Professional Achievements

• Practicing artist in photography and installation art with solo and collective exhibitions in Latin America and Europe
• User experience, Information Architect and Interaction design consultant Freelance graphic designer and Illustrator

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Jeffrey Say

Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours), University of Queensland, Australia

Professional Achievements

• Curated the exhibition Trading on the Maritime Silk Route at the National Museum of Singapore in 1993.
• Played a key role in the development of the Art History programme at LASALLE.
• Invited to do a research-based residency at the studio-home of Sculptor Karl Duldig in Melbourne, Australia. Duldig was a sculptor who had worked in Singapore from 1939 to 1940.
• Gave a public lecture on Leonardo da Vinci in conjunction with the premiere of the movie, The Da Vinci Code.
• Collaborated with established local artist Salleh Japar to participate in Nokia Singapore Art, a key visual arts exhibition in Singapore.

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Mary Loh

Master of Arts in Literature, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Certificate in Education (English), National Institute of Education, Singapore

Professional Achievements

• General Manager of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Company (S) Pte Ltd and helped set up the local and regional operations for The Phantom of the Opera (1995) and The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1996).
• Founder Empire M+C Consultants in 1997, a dedicated arts and entertainment marketing and public relations consultancy and was involved in projects as diverse as Tresors (1997), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1998), WOMAD, Star Trek World Tour (1999) and David Copperfield: Portal (2001).
• Previously Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications at The Arts House at The Old Parliament and responsible for programming and branding the space.
• Served on the Economic Review Committee Sub-Committee on the Tourism taskforce in 2002.
• Award-winning playwright and a published writer.

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