The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare has been facilitating children's art camps for years with a vision to nurture talent from very tender age.
Acute viability challenges arose at the peak of the country's economic downturn, obliging the centre for contemporary art that seeks to develop the visual arts through nurturing talent and creativity, to shelve the children's art workshops. But with the application of breaks on the economy's downward trend the school pupils' holiday art lessons have resurfaced with a bang.
The commencement of the 2011 second term schools' holidays saw the art classes being run by professionals from August 15 to 19 with numerous students of race and creed in attendance.
The youthful exuberance when equipped with pencils and papers, paints and brushes, dyes, beads and fabrics, and the freedom to roam around an appropriate art space that allow work to be created not simply made was crystal clear. It is the foundation necessary for venturing into an artistic life journey for some.
A journey that assigns one to nurture the eye to appreciate the beauties of nature, and exert the brain to recall a cultural heritage, full fathoms five deep with spiritual associations, a cultural heritage with unwritten rules about family and marriage, and the harmonious and conciliatory operation of society.
Education officer of the National Gallery Enock Nyakudya, said the Glue and Chemical Company, popularly known as Pritt, was sponsoring the art camps that are conducted during the first and second terms of national schools' holidays.
The National Gallery informs Harare schools during the course the terms about the curricular of the art camps and the required US$25 fee for food and materials.
Participation certificates with logos of the sponsors and the National Gallery are issued on completion of the artistic experience.
The 2011 edition of second term schools' holiday art camp was instructed by professional fine art practitioners as well as instructors of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Art School who included Doris Kamupira, Netsai Mukomberanwa, Julius Mushambadope and professional outsiders Enock Kolimbo and Regis Chinomona.
The curricula on the table had still-life drawing/painting, painting, printmaking, beadwork
and batik. Parents and their young graduates were ecstatic during the momentous certificates and awards presentation ceremony, let alone the outdoor exhibition of some of the artworks created by the young masters.
It is those critical little things that we do for our children that spin their world, nourish their excitement and importantly lay foundation for their future. The National Gallery of Zimbabwe is encouraging schools and parents to register with them for their various hands-on art workshops and have our art legacy firmly secure in the custodianship of our children.
l Stephen Garan'anga is an international fine art practitioner, independent art projects co-ordinator, chairperson of AfricanColours Artists, executive member Batapata International Artists' Workshop, critical visual arts writer amongst other things. garananga@gmail.com
Acute viability challenges arose at the peak of the country's economic downturn, obliging the centre for contemporary art that seeks to develop the visual arts through nurturing talent and creativity, to shelve the children's art workshops. But with the application of breaks on the economy's downward trend the school pupils' holiday art lessons have resurfaced with a bang.
The commencement of the 2011 second term schools' holidays saw the art classes being run by professionals from August 15 to 19 with numerous students of race and creed in attendance.
The youthful exuberance when equipped with pencils and papers, paints and brushes, dyes, beads and fabrics, and the freedom to roam around an appropriate art space that allow work to be created not simply made was crystal clear. It is the foundation necessary for venturing into an artistic life journey for some.
A journey that assigns one to nurture the eye to appreciate the beauties of nature, and exert the brain to recall a cultural heritage, full fathoms five deep with spiritual associations, a cultural heritage with unwritten rules about family and marriage, and the harmonious and conciliatory operation of society.
Education officer of the National Gallery Enock Nyakudya, said the Glue and Chemical Company, popularly known as Pritt, was sponsoring the art camps that are conducted during the first and second terms of national schools' holidays.
The National Gallery informs Harare schools during the course the terms about the curricular of the art camps and the required US$25 fee for food and materials.
Participation certificates with logos of the sponsors and the National Gallery are issued on completion of the artistic experience.
The 2011 edition of second term schools' holiday art camp was instructed by professional fine art practitioners as well as instructors of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Art School who included Doris Kamupira, Netsai Mukomberanwa, Julius Mushambadope and professional outsiders Enock Kolimbo and Regis Chinomona.
The curricula on the table had still-life drawing/painting, painting, printmaking, beadwork
and batik. Parents and their young graduates were ecstatic during the momentous certificates and awards presentation ceremony, let alone the outdoor exhibition of some of the artworks created by the young masters.
It is those critical little things that we do for our children that spin their world, nourish their excitement and importantly lay foundation for their future. The National Gallery of Zimbabwe is encouraging schools and parents to register with them for their various hands-on art workshops and have our art legacy firmly secure in the custodianship of our children.
l Stephen Garan'anga is an international fine art practitioner, independent art projects co-ordinator, chairperson of AfricanColours Artists, executive member Batapata International Artists' Workshop, critical visual arts writer amongst other things. garananga@gmail.com
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