Art Training

i-dArt Creative Art Room

2024.5.1-2025.10.31

This project aims to develop the artistic potential of people with disabilities and promote their personal artistic career. Through diversification Art courses and exchange activities to  enhance students' creative abilities, broaden their artistic horizons, further cultivate their talent, develop personal artistic styles, and move towards the path of professional artists. On the other hand, we provide comprehensive basic art courses for people with disabilities who are interested in art or have no experience in art, enriching their lives through art learning, and using art as a medium to connect the community and promote an inclusive society.

Bravo on stage

2024.5.1-2025.10.31

Financially supported by the Arts Development Fund for Persons with Disabilities of the Social Welfare Department, this program aims to provide inspiring and progressive continuing performing arts training to people with intellectual disabilities/autism (PWIDs) who have received dance training for 2 years or more, love to use body movements to express themselves, and have potential in performing arts. Through performing arts training, they can enhance their personal expression, enhance their self-confidence, create emotional connections with others, and further expand their artistic life.

Path to Professional Artists

2020.3.10-2024.3.9

Financially supported by the Arts Development Fund for Persons with Disabilities of the Social Welfare Department, this project aims to provide advance training for the graduates of the 4-year art course, and let themexperience different fields like art, music, literature, which may inspire their creation further.

Introductory Arts Course

2020.3.1 - 2023.8.31

Financially supported by the Arts Development Fund for Persons with Disabilities of the Social Welfare Department, this project design and structure a basic model of a comprehensive visual art education curriculum for PWD to enrich the life of PWD through the learning of art. Also aims to nourish talented PWD with better knowledge and wider exposure to art for increasing their capabilities to the fullest.

i-dArt Viva Dance Project

Class: 2021.6.15-2022.12.14

The project aims to provide well organized and constructed performing art trainings for people with intellectual disabilities (PWIDs), who have received years of dance training previously, showed passion and potentials in dance and performing arts, to empower and help develop their own performing art expression, as well as their artistic career.

Saori Weaving Workshop

Since 2017 till now

The i-dArt SAORI weaving class was established in 2017. It was started with the project “Reweaving Grief” in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong, which implemented an innovative bereavement care approach introduced from Australia. Through reshaping the old clothes of the deceased and giving it a new meaning, the grief of the bereavement is transformed as well. The selected students of the weaving class learnt the SAORI skills and reweaved the grief into new items which was given back to the bereaved. The students formed the SAORI weaving class at the very first beginning.

After the collaborative project, the students have showed their passion and talent for SAORI weaving. Therefore, the class has continued until now. More interested students have been recruited into the class. It has accumulated both experienced students and new faces. By using pieces of clothes and the yarn rolls in students’ hands, beautiful artworks were weaved as the proof of their hard work and mental growth. Of course, there are always ups and downs in any journey, and the class holds no exceptions.

"Free Dimension" Ceramic class

"Free Dimension" Ceramic class was founded in 2012, we had to borrow a corner of another unit for class by then. 20 students from 6 different units were busy learning new things. After several years of migration, we finally settled down on our own. In the pottery room, the journey is so beautiful, interesting and impressive; it reminds people of nomads, living while singing and living, enjoying and creating and joyful.

In the years when things change and stars change, we have not seen the reduction of the creative motivation of each one. Perhaps the changes have also added to everyone’s sense of life. With a fountain, inspiration won’t stop; and the relationship between each other has also been established. , Greet each other every time we meet, observe others in the class, the tacit understanding has also improved a lot.

The dexterous hands, the silent mind, the mud in the hands, slowly changing, the color and texture all tell the characteristics of each person, the simple beauty engraved on each work makes people more and more fascinated. To this day, everyone is thinking about meeting each week, creating and enjoying the fruits of their hard work.