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in Podcasts, Visual Art#HustleTales Podcast Ep 06: Teesa Bahana, Director 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust
https://muwado.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/HustleTalesS1E6_TeesaBahana.mp3 Welcome to the sixth episode of the #HustleTales podcast. With this podcast, we are focusing on telling the stories of African entrepreneurs and professionals, the hurdles they have jumped […] More
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Style, Technique And Subject Matter In Art
When it comes to being artistic, Art styles describe the way the artwork looks. Style is basically how the artist portrays his or her subject matter and how the artist […] More
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Finding Home in Art
She owns two paintings that she treasures deeply, not just for their aesthetic value but also for the vivid symbolism they convey. While acknowledging that her perception of art may […] More
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The Letter that Never got Delivered
I first heard about Sanaa Gateja 15yrs ago through my mother’s conversations with her friends. He was quite popular in our church circles being a prominent figure in Uganda’s Art […] More
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WHAT BECOMES OF ART THAT GETS ABUSED?
“I absolutely stopped painting because of Epstein,” Farmer said. “And in a weird way, I kind of started painting because of him because I wanted to honor the victims- Maria […] More
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Meet the Rubona Weavers Pushing Uganda’s Handicraft Industry
At the age of 22, Kellen Kenganzi stepped into a space filled with weavers to run a few errands but her open-mindedness and curiosity led her to actively learn and […] More
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IN THE NAME OF ART
Whilst growing up, my source of joy was never local art – Ugandan. My source of comfort and serenity was from art-not-Ugandan. However, ever since I discovered that I could […] More
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Self-Reflection: A Promise that keeps shaping my Artist identity/Journey
It is evidently common in Uganda if you tell people you used to hawk art door to door, they can fail to believe. And not just art but so many […] More
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Commercializing Poetry: Irene Esther Mutuzo Shares Her Journey
Poets are literary artists who express emotions, ideas and thoughts through the use of verse; a creative writing technique typically characterized by a certain rhythm and style. Although many people […] More
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in Visual ArtSelf-Taught Artists Take Centre Stage in Kampala Exhibition Challenging Artistic Convention
A new exhibition in Kampala is challenging long-held assumptions about who gets to be recognised as an artist, bringing renewed attention to the role of self-taught practitioners in Uganda’s […] More
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The Crossroad of Modern Myth
The elders always said that a story is like a market day in Kampala, it refuses to be contained in a single basket. For generations, the world tried to box […] More
