Discovery Month Workshops - Sep 2025

Earth Explorations: Wild Dot demonstrates making brushes out of bamboo

NTU Museum opened the new Academic Year 2025-2026 with a series of three fun workshops for the incoming freshmen as part of Orientation Discovery Month Arts & Culture activities in September 2025. 

We shared the secrets behind the many artworks located on our sprawling campus on a specially curated guided Campus Art Trail along the North Spine.

Nature-based art studio Wild Dot returned for another edition of Earth Explorations, but this time at a new location at exploring the terrain around the historic Yunnan Gardens.

Miniatures artist Tinysnips who makes teeny-tiny models of food and everyday objects taught our students how to create their own renditions of NTU's iconic building The Hive and the artwork Fern.

Wild Dot Shirin demonstrating the scratch test

Earth Explorations: SHHK with Wild Dot

Wild Dot returned for another round of Earth Explorations, this time at a new location exploring the greenery of the historic Yunnan Garden! Students learned to forage and create natural pigments using the earth around the gardens and experimented with earth paint and outdoor sketching techniques.

Earth Explorations: Wild Dot sharing at Yunnan Garden PavilionExploring the Yunnan Garden with tips from Wild Dot

Earth Explorations: Student creations with natural pigmentsSketches painted with natural pigments

Earth Explorations: foraging for earth and testing coloursStudents foraging and testing colours from pigments around the gardens

About Wild Dot

Wild Dot is a nature-guided art studio from Singapore. Combining design, art and botany, they make inks and colour pigments with plants and earth growing in Singapore, and share this process through designing playful artmaking experiences with others. Their intention is to explore how the process of (art)making can be an accessible way for more people to relearn our relations with plants and our environments.

Learn more at wildd.sg

Miniatures Workshop by Tinysnips: Fern and Hive

NTU in Smol: Miniatures Workshop with Tinysnips

Under the tutelage of miniatures artist Tinysnips who created many of NTU’s most recognisable art and architectural icons in miniature form for ARTease, students took part in two hands-on workshops to recreate the swirling curves of the Hive and the graceful fronds of the Fern bench in miniature. The students enjoyed expressing themselves creatively and made new friends with other like-minded students.

Miniatures Workshop Fern: Instruction by TinysnipsTinysnips hands-on instruction guiding students to create Fern in miniature

Miniatures Workshop Hive: CraftingStudents bonding over crafting of The Hive in miniature

Miniatures Workshop Fern: Student workA student's completed version of mini Fern

About Tinysnips

Tinysnips is an art studio from Singapore with a focus on handmade miniatures. Our founder, Rui, designs and sculpts all of our miniatures from scratch in small batches.

More at tinysnips.com

Guided Campus Art Trail presented by NTU Museum

To celebrate the newly relaunched Campus Art Trail, NTU Museum led a small walking tour to uncovered the intriguing public artworks, stunning architectural wonders and heritage gems around campus in one epic guided art walk along the North Spine. Students discovered the behind-the-scenes stories and got to see the sculptures and buildings that they walk by everyday in a new light.

Campus Art Trail guided art walk - Lim Tze Peng's work in Nanyang AuditoriumLearning about Lim Tze Peng's Untitled (Godown at Singapore River) in the Nanyang Auditorium.

Campus Art Trail guided art walk - Sound Plot: Ulu at North Spine PlazaListen to audio plays inspired by NTU's locale with Sound Plot: Ulu

Campus Art Trail guided art walk - group photoNTU Museum worked together with the Student Affairs Office to organise this walking tour for incoming freshmen

See the full Campus Art Trail

Info

Discovery Month Workshops for freshmen - Sep 2025

Earth Explorations: SHHK

  • Workshop 1: 24 September 2025, 4-6pm
  • Workshop 2: 25 September 2025, 4-6pm

Location: Benches at Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Building foyer

 

NTU Miniatures in Smol

  • Workshop 1 (Fern): 18 September 2025, 3-5pm
  • Workshop 2 (Hive): 19 September 2025, 3-5pm

Location: 

  • Workshop 1: LHN TR-16 (The Arc L1-04)
  • Workshop 2: LHS TR-24 (The Hive B2-01)

 

Guided NTU Campus Art Trail walks

  • 22 September 2025, 4-530pm

Location: The Arc Basement 1 Foyer in front of Loop Sculpture