Slow Art Day 2025

Featured Speakers

Dr. Felicia Low

Dr. Felicia Low is a visual artist, art educator and applied arts researcher. With support from the National Arts Council, she created a pedagogical guide on Person-centred Arts Practices with Communities. Dr. Low is the founding director of Community Cultural Dimensions, a non-for-profit organisation that aims to provide a critical discursive platform for artistic practices that engage with communities in the region. Since 2000, she has been working with various arts institutions and social organisations to conduct and research on arts programmes and community-based practices. As the lead researcher of the Slow Art Guide Research Project, Dr. Low will kick off the panel with a presentation of the research process and key findings, followed by a sharing of her experience of applying slow looking in art facilitation.

Dr. Michael Tan 

Dr. Michael Tan is the Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the University of the Arts Singapore, Nanyang Academy of Arts. As a leading creative health researcher, and advocate in Singapore, his contributions include the State of Arts and Health Development Singapore and numerous cross sectoral/discipline collaborations with stakeholders such as the AIC, NAC, Duke-NUS to explore, interrogate, and imagine the culture of care. Dr. Tan’s ongoing inquiries include mental health, end of life and, disability. He will share his learnings from Gesture of Care—a creative movement workshop he developed to create a space to slow down practice of care, and an invitation to pause and reflect on the place of listening in care exchange. 

Alicia Teng

Alicia Teng is the Deputy Director of the Community and Access (C&A) team at National Gallery Singapore (Gallery), which oversees access initiatives, volunteer management and community engagement. Since 2018, she has led the development of various pioneering access initiatives, such as the Access Guide, Slow Art programme, Art with You and the Calm Room, all while working in close partnership with community stakeholders to engage diverse communities at the Gallery. Alicia will share how principles of slow looking has enabled the Gallery to reimagine its community outreach efforts, making room for meaningful and creative methods of engaging communities through art.