Eco-Art Exhibition: Zebra in the Red Heels, Apr. 20-Jun. 8 2012 @ MJ Centre

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Safaricom invites you to a rare and inspiring Eco-Art exhibition called Zebra in the Red Heels

Dates: April 20-June 8, 2012
Venue: Michael Joseph Centre, Safaricom House
Entry: RSVP Rahab at michaeljosephcentre@safaricom.co.ke

Expect: To see beautiful Eco-Art pieces and learn how this is helping to make the environment a better and safer place for future generations

Exhibition: by Educultural Artists Kenya, Apr. 24 2012 @ Nairobi Railways Museum

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Opening: April 24, 2012
Venue: Nairobi Railways Museum
Time: 6pm

This will be the first ever exhibition held at the Nairobi Railways Museum which opens a new Art Gallery which happens to be one of its kind in East and Central Africa. It is an establishment created to complement the historical Nairobi Railways Museum artifacts.

This exhibition will feature some of the most prominent contemporary Kenyan artists

Contacts: 0722256648/0733539105 (ECAK) and 020 2215796/2210111 (Kenya Railways)

African Heritage: Keeper of Africa’s Arts & Culture 40th Anniversary celebrations (1972 – 2012) Apr. 12-29 2012 @ Alliance

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African Heritage marks 40 years of a unique and important role in nourishing the cultural and artistic ideals of Pan Africanism. Alan Donovan, in partnership with Joseph Murumbi (retired Foreign Minister and 2nd Vice President of Kenya) and his wife, Sheila, founded the continent’s first Pan African gallery in 1972. 40 years on, African Heritage has left legacies in the world of jewellery and fashion, arts and crafts, music and dance, and architecture.
Alliance Française presents a series of activities that will showcase works by some of the giants of African Heritage over the years. African Heritage crafts and shows are now carried on by Makena Mwiraria.
There will also be a display of the spectacular Kuba cloths from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Alan Donovan with Crown Prince Kwete Kwete of the Kingdom of Kuba will petition UNESCO to recognize the tremendous impact these textiles had on 20th century. Kuba traditions will feature in African Ceremonies Vol. III and IV by acclaimed photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, associated with African Heritage since its inception.

EXHIBITION BY EAST AFRICA’S PIONEER ARTISTS
Venue: Alliance Française galleries,
Dates: April 12-29 2012

Artworks by some of the pioneer artists of East Africa, who struggled against tremendous odds immediately after independence to obtain the best education possible in the arts will be on show. These include:
Francis Nnaggenda. dean of all East African artists who later became Chairman of the Fine Arts Department of Makerere Univesity, will present the feature exhibition with his new artworks.
Elkana Ongesa. who was the first of a long line of Kisii stone carvers to obtain degrees in Fine Arts.
Magdalene Odundo. whose ceramic works rival the kind of awe that inspired the early ‘modern’ European artists.
John Odochameny. who taught sculpture at African Heritage and has inspired many younger sculptors.
Expedito Mwebe. an exceptionally talented and innovative artist, designer and builder,
Sanaa Gateja. who has taught and exhibited for many years in Africa and Europe and who continues to experiment with the use of local African materials in new mediums.

Invitation to participate in Kenya visual artists networking exhibition, May 22- Jul. 22 2012 @ Nairobi Gallery

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The Non State Actors Support Programme (NSA – NET) is a democratic governance capacity building programme which seeks to enhance the role of civil society and cultural actors in the development process. The Programme is implemented by the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs with financing from the European Union through the 9th European Development Fund (9th EDF).

NSA – NET in collaboration with the National Museum of Kenya [NMK] and in consultation with visual artists have organised an exhibition dubbed “Power of unity: creating a vital voice for artists to influence good governance” The main objective of this initiative is to enable the artists to create a platform / forum in which they can continuously use to articulate issues affecting them as a discipline. The exhibition will serve three purposes, namely:

1. To provide an opportunity for artists to show case their work, specifically reflecting their interpretation of the networking/unity theme;
2. To provide an opportunity for visual artist to discuss and endorse the formation of a visual artists network; and
3. To officially launch the visual artists network.

The exhibition is open to all visual artists and is scheduled to take place at The Nairobi Gallery, National Museums of Kenya starting 22nd May 2012 and run up to the 22nd July 2012.

All participating artists are expected to fulfil the following eligibility criteria to participate in the networking exhibition:

• The artist must be 25 years of age and above;
• He / she must be a practicing artist and has participated in at least 5 exhibitions locally and internationally;
• Every artist will be required to submit one piece of artwork whose specifications are 100cm by 100cm for the largest piece, and 25cm by 25cm (quarter of the same) for the smallest;
• The artwork should address either of the three good governance themes, namely: promotion of public participation, promotion of peaceful co-existence and promotion of effective service delivery;
• The artwork should be delivered to the Nairobi gallery ready for hanging latest on 23rd or 24th April 2012 not earlier or later;
• The artist will be required to surrender to the gallery, 30% as commission from the proceeds of their sales during the exhibition period; and
• All the unsold artwork at the end of the exhibition should be collected by the 24th July 2012. The uncollected artwork within the designated time will be considered a donation to the Museum.

Click this link to download artist-questionnaire (pdf), which should be duly completed and submitted to The Nairobi Gallery (old PC office), National Museums of Kenya, clearly marked visual artist exhibition by 5th April 2012.

All enquires on the exhibition should be directed to Lydia G. Galavu, email: lgatundu@museums.or.ke or Scholastica Kimanga, email: schola_kiragu@yahoo.com with a copy to info@nsa-net.org.

Find more information on their blog about the project and artists database: http://visualartsnetworking.wordpress.com/