This Month, the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Prince Claus Fund announced the 12 recipients of the Building Beyond mentorship programme. A program which aims to foster thought leadership, promote criticality, reframe design-based practices, and contribute to an ongoing conversation on how creative practices rooted in locality…
South Africa has a strong artistic history dating back over 4000 years from the large collection of artworks on the walls of rock shelters and caves created by the San people to the conceptual art that came about towards the end of apartheid in the 1990s. With such…
February first is not only known as a month of love, it also marks the time for recognising the central roles of Black people. To mark this annual celebration, Youngtown State University kicked off with an exhibition of Makonde sculptures from the collection of Tazim and Dr. Nazim…
Prior to the Harlem Fine Arts Show’s 15th anniversary celebration, which will take place in New York City on February 24-26, 2023, several of the included artists met in Harlem to discuss their work and the value of the HFAS’s platform for “African diasporic artists.” WASHINGTON DC 2022…
As part of the aim to equip the new generation of Africans to be leaders in heritage management, Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) has trained 527 students on careers in arts and heritage. Image courtesy of Adjaye Associates The nonprofit organization EMOWAA is an initiative to create…
Over recent years African artists, curators and galleries have transformed the African art scene in London. With the likes of 1-54 Contemporary art fairs, Tiwani Contemporary and many others, the engagement of African art has proliferated. Integrating art from the continent has significantly changed our perception of its…
Today marks the end of the SOTO Gallery exhibition featuring exciting works by Nojeem Muse, VictoriaMakinde, Johnson Uwadinma, Imomoh Edgar Asemokha, and Francisco David. Image courtesy of Soto Gallery GALLERY STATEMENT:Responding to a contemporary moment defined simultaneously by increased integration andincreased polarization, the works in this exhibition draw…
At the opening of his exhibition Femicides/Art Report – a mesh of painting, photography and infographic artworks, Colombian artist David Palacios trained eight young Nigerian artists on how to transform data into art. Image courtesy of Leadership This exhibition proposes a critical reflection on Femicides using data and…
Isthuli-Sasengweni Arts & Craft Organisation in partnership with the City of Ekurhuleni’s Sports Recreation Arts and Culture Department are calling emerging visual art practitioners to submission of artworks to be selected for a special curated contemporary exhibition at the Springs Art Gallery. Image courtesy of Isthuli-Sasengweni Arts &…
“House of Bondage,” Ernest Cole’s unflinching and comprehensive indictment of apartheid, is now available with a new edition in the market. Ernest Cole – Image courtesy of Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand Ernest Cole was born on 21 March 1940 as Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, in Eersterust,…