Seow Ai Wee

Ms Seow Ai Wee designs and conducts professional learning experiences to enhance teaching competencies of Art Teachers in areas of inquiry-based learning, differentiated instruction and technology-enhanced art learning. She also produces video-based resources focused on the works and life of contemporary Singapore artists to highlight how artistic practice might inspire new ways of teaching. Her two-year secondment (2021-2023) to the National Arts Council as Deputy Director for Education has motivated her to examine possibilities to foster closer collaboration in the art and art education ecosystem.

Ai Wee began her teaching career as an Art Teacher at Outram Secondary School in 2000. While pursuing her master's degree at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City, she joined the Museum of Modern Art, first as Teaching Resident and then as Museum Educator. She went on to work at the Whitney Museum of American Art as the Coordinator of School and Teacher Programs. After nine years in the art museum sector, Ai Wee took on an Assistant Professor position in the Arts Education Department at Tamagawa University, Tokyo, where she taught undergraduate classes on museum education, artistic development of children and adolescents, and learning English through art.