Episode 010: On Leaving Academia and Living Art (Guest: Emelia Thiran, Artist, Educator, and Author of Living Art: The Inspired Lives of 14 Malaysian Artists & Their Art Practice)

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Kopitiam Conversations

Winston Lim

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Hosted by Winston, Kopitiam Conversations is a casual podcast discussing diverse topics such as work, life, music, the arts, culture, day-to-day challenges, and everything it takes to stay sane in 24-hour cycles. We talk to the everyday people with their everyday victories. #kopitiamconvo #kopitiamconversations #kopitiamconversationsKL

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Episode 010: On Leaving Academia and Living Art (Guest: Emelia Thiran, Artist, Educator, and Author of Living Art: The Inspired Lives of 14 Malaysian Artists & Their Art Practice)

Kopitiam Conversations

37 minutes 31 seconds

4 years ago

Episode 010: On Leaving Academia and Living Art (Guest: Emelia Thiran, Artist, Educator, and Author of Living Art: The Inspired Lives of 14 Malaysian Artists & Their Art Practice)

This is Episode 10.

Our guest for this episode is Dr Emelia Thiran, PhD, who is an artist, art writer, art educator and designer based in Kuala Lumpur. Emelia received her BFA from the University of Bridgeport (USA), and later her PhD in Art History from University Sains Malaysia. She has been teaching design, visual art studies and art history in numerous art colleges while freelancing as a graphic designer. She is the author of Living Art: The Inspired Lives of 14 Malaysian Artists & their Art Practice (2020). She quit full-time teaching to pursue painting in 2019.

Emelia shares her personal journey of being an art educator who worked her way to earn her PhD only to change the course of her career by embarking on becoming a full-time professional artist--following a health scare and some soul-searching--and feeling a lot more contented and fulfilled today.

You can follow, view and even purchase Dr Thiran's work at https://www.emythiran.com and www.instagram.com/emythiran