[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]Victor Ehikhamenor is a multi talented and an award winning Nigerian writer, visual artist, and photographer. He grew up in an art home with maternal grandfather; a very successful blacksmith, paternal grandmother a cloth weaver and an uncle who is a renowned photographer. So to him art was a natural and gradual development due to his background. Ehikhamenor’s influence comes from traditional African motifs and religious cosmology. [/dropcap] Continue reading
Ikwuemesi Takes The Village Square To Abuja
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]Enugu based-artist, Krydz Ikwuemesi opens his solo art exhibition The Village Square on May 7, 2015 at International Institute for Creative Development (IIDC), Maitama, Abuja. The exhibition, according to a statement features composite installation. [/dropcap]Continue reading
Spotlight Wednesday | Wiz Kudowor
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] Wisdom “Wiz” Kudowor is a prominent Ghanaian contemporary visual artist. To some, he is known as a trans-cultural visionary. He studied fine art at the College of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi and graduated with a first class honours degree in fine arts in 1981. [/dropcap]Continue reading
Spotlight Wednesday | Tola Wewe
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]Tola Wewe is said to be one of the most talented minds from the African continent. He started as a cartoonist before becoming a full time studio artist in 1991. He attended University of Ife in 1983, where he bagged a degree in Fine Art. In 1986, he went further to obtain a Masters degree in African Visual Arts from the University of Ibadan, Oyo State. [/dropcap] Continue reading
Meet Yelloseesee Uwaoma "The Inkllustrator" | Exclusive Interview
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] I had the opportunity to meet this talented young man at the Creative Focus event I attended last year. It was almost as though we have met before, as he was friendly and humorous. His name is Yelloseesee (and no it’s not a nickname, he mentioned) Uwaoma, a professional IT Engineer turned artist. An artist who creates classic ink arts using regular pen. Let’s meet him…[/dropcap]
Spotlight Wednesday | Sam Ovraiti
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] Sam Ovraiti is a renowned visual artist and one of the few water colour artist in Nigeria. He attended Auchi Polytechnic where he graduated with distinctions in General Art & Painting, he went further to obtain a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University of Benin, Edo State. He has won several national and academic awards including 1st prize winner at the Mobil Producing National Painting Competition. [/dropcap]Continue reading
Bellafricana launches The Marketplace For Afrocentric And Handmade Products
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] Bukky Bello who is the founder of Bellafricana shares with Bellafricana digest viewers the launch of an online marketplace for Afrocentric and Handmade products in Africa (starting with Nigeria her homeland) with the aim of promoting local content through the connection of local artisans, talents and creatives to the global reach. Let’s hear her story… [/dropcap]
Terra Kulture | The Beautiful Cultural And Art Centre In Lagos
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]Terra Kulture is a beautiful cultural and art centre located in the heart of Lagos. Bolanle Austen-Peters who is an art connoisseur and a business woman founded this centre in 2003 in order to promote the beauty, affluence and diversity of Nigerian Art and Culture.[/dropcap]Continue reading
Spotlight Wednesday | Muraina Oyelami
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]Chief Muraina Oyelami is a man of two worlds, popularly known as a master painter a great performing artist in music and theatre. He is a product of the famous Oshogbo Art Movement initiated by Professor Ulli Beier and his wife Georgina Beier. In 1964, he started his career as an artist. He studied technical theatre and specialized in theatre design at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, where he later taught traditional music from 1975 to 1987.[/dropcap]Continue reading
Meet The Founder Of ArtMiabo | Exclusive Interview
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] Miabo Enyadike is an Artrepreneur, Interior designer & decorator and an art blogger. She is an awardee of the Ford Foundation Prize and grant for Contemporary Art by the Nigeria Art Institute Terrakulture, in Lagos Nigeria. She is the founder of ArtMiabo.[/dropcap]Continue reading