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- - - - “There has been a lot of growth in the art scene here and a huge contributing factor is the government’s strong support in building the arts”
    - - “I think reaching out to the public is an important role which we can all contribute to. A lot of exhibitions, performances and shows are available to the public at minimal or no cost.”
    - - We’ve seen increased participation,increased art act“ivities, exhibitions, performances……”
  - - - “Contrary to popular thinking, many artists would have easily outsmarted others in school. Singaporean artists such as Adrian Pang and Ivan Heng both graduated with law degrees and plot twisted to pursue a career in theatre.”
    - - ”majority of Lasalle (Singapore Art’s school) graduates secured jobs with a median starting salary of $2,500”
    - - ”Lee Sher Lyn illustrated this possibility in her video titled “Pandora’s Dimension,” that was inspired by her friend who battled schizophrenia. She created it to raise awareness about
        mental health, and her video was brought up and well-received by experts and in panel discussions."
  - - - Ev2: ”As the agency that champions the arts, NAC has to acknowledge that art in Singapore is created with different artistic intentions for diverse audiences. Singapore is a modern cosmopolitan country with a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage.”
    - - Ev3: .Grace Tan's work, titled In The Stillness, transformed a classroom in a defunct school on Shodoshima with a huge cloud-like sculpture made of two million polypropylene loop pins
    - - Ev1: “Art can root young Singaporeans to their land and, through the imagination, anchor them to their
        forebears.”
- - - - It is not Singaporeans that are artistically-lacking, but rather that local creativity has been systematically discouraged every step of the way
    - - Onerous and excessive regulations result in artists shying away from experimenting, for fear of jumping through countless regulatory hoops
    - - Yet it is clear that a domestic arts scene has not organically emerged in Singapore as the industry continues to depend heavily on state funding due to a lack of private interest
  - - - “Many think arts education is worthy, but just not AS worthy as the academic curriculum.”
    - - “. . .it was very difficult not to know whether or not we would be funded for the following year.”
    - - ”Nearly 63% of responding organizations have less than two FTE (full time equivalent) staff devoted to arts education”
  - - - Out of 1000 Singaporeans in a survey, 71% of them rated that being an artist is the least essential in our society.
    - - Total enrollment numbers went from 5564 in 2013 to 5073 in 2019. From the number of diploma students to the number of undergraduate students, the number decreased by almost half. From the number of undergraduates to the number of postgraduates, the number decreased by ten times.
    - - Enrollment numbers went from 1004 in 2013 to 1107 in 2019. The highest was in 2016 at 1120. Film, Theatre and Dance has been decreasing in number of students. Literary arts that were introduced in 2016 have increased sharply in number of students from 20 in 2016 to 103 in 2019.