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Dean’s Message

Sabrina Long
Dean
School of Art & Design

This year marks the sixth year of the Nanyang This year, The eGrad Expectations 2020 will
Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)’s School of Art & showcase, for the first time, close to 700 diploma
Design (SOAD), and I would like to extend my and degree graduates that will communicate the
warmest congratulations to our graduates of depth and breadth of their creative works. It is a
aspiring artists and designers. year that will sit close in my heart as I have seen this
cohort fight to deliver under extreme circumstances.
I believe NAFA has taught you how your efforts as a This will leave a strong impression and mark to the
designer can shape our world, as we live in one that SOAD teaching faculty. Your eagerness to excel can
is constantly changing and developing. In the face be seen in your many involvement and projects
of COVID-19 pandemic, I am heartened to know outside the curriculum, showcasing abilities and
that you strove on and against all odds, completed hunger to excel in the real world. This includes the
and excelled in your work. You have been forced Transdisciplinary project with Victorian College of the
to think and re-frame what our community looks Arts, and live project with Singapore Tourism Board
like and how you must engage with it for us to for The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Sweeping top
live harmoniously together. I hope you will remain awards at the Crowbar Awards 2019, Singapore
positive, learn to embrace the changes that are Institute of Landscape Architect (SILA) Student
happening around and make the best of what you Award 2019, Singapore Creator Award 2019,
have. Men’s Folio Designer of the Year 2019 (Menswear
Designer), are just some of the many achievements
Art and Design is a universal language that of your graduating cohort.
transcends boundaries. As a creative practitioner,
it is our sincere hope that you will work towards I would like to congratulate all graduates on your
solving problems and creating value, not only in achievements and wish each one of you success in
Singapore and Southeast Asia, but globally as your journey towards new horizons. My appreciation
well. We hope that you will be able to exercise to the teaching faculty for their continuous guidance
sensitivities to the environment, understand the and support to the students.
landscape, be able to recognise problems and
formulate effective solutions through relevant art There are no limits to what you can do and to the
and design articulations. heights you can scale. Keep believing in yourself and
trust the process.

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