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The formation of contemporary visual artists in Africa: Revisiting residency programmes.
(Makerere University, 2008-09)
Appreciation of African visual artists’ background in artistic theory, its application and criticism, artists’ quality of experience and their level of artistic knowledge and competencies are critical factors in measuring ...
Exploration and symbolic interpretation of alternative printing surfaces using the serigraphic printing technique.
(Makerere University, 2008-10)
The contemporary industrial world today provides a variety of printing surfaces, for example, glass, biscuit –fired clay slabs, stone slates, plastic, acrylic boards, and other synthetic materials which have not been ...
Contemporary Ugandan art and the ctrique on corruption? A look at Mutebi's strategies, symbolisms and symbols.
(2009-05-28)
Some contemporary artists in Uganda have converted traditional objects and activities into a pointed vocabulary which they use to critique government and governance. Fred Kato Mutebi is active in this area. In this paper ...
A studio based exploration of metaphors in the art of drawing in Uganda
(2009-11)
This study explores the relationship between drawing and metaphors through studio practice in order to raise the artistic qualities in the art of drawing in Uganda. The study was initiated out of the researcher’s experience ...
Pioneer Makerere Masters
(Mkuki na Nyota, 2008)
Katarikawe coming back home
(2009-03-02)
Uganda's visual environment: development and change
(Triangle Arts Trust, 2002)
The appropriation of external elements and their local domestication are important ingredients for the growth and survival of a distinct culture. Norbert Kaggwa, a student at the Margaret Trowell School of Fine Art, Makerere ...
The renaissance of contemporary art at Makerere University Art School
(2003-02)
This study examined whether the 1960’s in relation to the 1950’s and 1970’s were a decade of the renaissance of contemporary art production at Makerere University Art School. The study had three specific objectives:
(i.) To ...
Exploring wild animals as a subject using the relief printmaking technique.
(Makerere University, 2008)
The research was intended to demonstrate the potential of wild animals as a subject for relief printing by producing a variety of both utilitarian and aesthetic relief prints .The study objectives were to:
Demonstrate the ...