Online art teaching spawns amid COVID-19

A drawing lesson by art lecturer Luu Vu Minh (Photo: nhandan.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – Online art teaching has spawned in many localities due to prolonged social distancing caused by COVID-19, with non-profit classrooms on digital platform offering healthy entertainment choice and skills to learners at home.

With a PC or a smart phone connecting with the Internet, everyone could join online art courses at home.

Art lecturer Luu Minh Vu often livestreams drawing lessons, one topic each time, in the evening on his Facebook fanpage with nearly 14,000 subscribers.

Meanwhile, painter Nguyen Hai Kim from Ho Chi Minh City offers free teaching on weekend on Zoom app. Learners are instructed how to draw on different materials, most of them are women in different ages and vocations.

Several fine art groups and forums also provide free drawing courses from basic to advanced levels, making it easier for those interested to access.

Florists Nguyen Thanh Hien from Hanoi and Ta Thanh Kim from Australia maintain Ikebana teaching sessions with materials easily being found in Vietnam. They also raise funds in support of frontline medical staff and those in disadvantaged situation in several COVID-19 treatment hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City.

Movie lovers or filmmakers also have chances to engage with well-known directors and producers from the US, Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, India and Singapore in the Master Class programme, which has been held by the Asian Academy Creative Awards' (AAA) Academy Campus and BHD Vietnam company since July. They are also able to learn script-writing, filming, music and acting from leading experts in the region and the world.

Not only bringing happiness or improving living skills, online courses also blur geographical distance and help learners integrate into the community./.