Unseen Art Scene (mirror)

Thinking about Uganda and the artists of Kampala this month This is something all artists interested in this site should sing to their children at bedtime:

Here is a video of four emerging artists from the Capital of Uganda, Kampala: Click on this photograph of Wasswa Donald to see the video.

The Mini Online Exhibition First of a series of videos over the next month set in Kampala, Uganda Click here or on  the picture to take a look at the book. Here is a book attached to the first Online Mini Expo on African Artists Inc.Online Mini Expo into the Art of Uganda. This is the first of many: An Online Expo into that artists of Uganda from the perspective of a young artist living and working in Kampala. Wasswa Donald. The Mini Exhibition will be shown through The African Well on Youtube and through various other websites that focus on Contemporary African Art. The show outlines the expectations of the young artists of Uganda and gives a slight insight into the Contemporary History of Art of the country. The date is 18th August 2011 and will run for a month. A book will accompany the Mini show or Expo, that has been developed through the Blurb website. Hopefully this will develop an effective way to show up-and-coming artists from within the Continent and educate all of us to His

Technology Meet Africa! Wasswa Donald Curates WELCOME TO OUR ONLINE MINI EXPO A VISUAL UPRISING FROM KAMPALA, UGANDA. The passion for this show stems from an overwhelming desire to create positive media for Artists from Africa via Social Media Networks. Working in collaboration with a young, dynamic Ugandan artist from Kampala, Wasswa Donald, together we have chartered out a different course in which to sail. Helped by our various friends around the world, we have tried to break the mould of those favoured few and open up the spectrum to a far greater audience; both from those participating and those observing. Presently, the artistic practitioners within the Continent have little, if any say in their own contemporary cultural development; with the slight exception of Nigeria, North and South Africa. Galleries, Private Collectors, Museums and Art Institutions throughout the western world are defining Africa without asking the Africans. Europe and America are developing highbrow exhibit

Check to see the show: www.youtube.com/africanwell Thur.18th August 2011  Online Mini Expo on African Artists Inc.ONline Mini Expo into the Art of Uganda. This is the first of many: An ONline Expo into that artists of Uganda from the perspective of a young artist living and working in Kampala.  Wasswa Donald. The Mini Exhibition will be shown through The African Well on Youtube. The show outlines the expectations of the young artists of Uganda and gives an insight into the Contemporary History of Art of the country. The date is 18th August and will run for a month. A book will accompany the Mini show or Expo, either through Amazon or Blurb. Hopefully this will develop an effective way to show up-and-coming artists from within the Continent and educate all of us to History of Art of a Continent by those within it. The intent is to expose of the artistic heroes of Africa by the Africans.

Book Description:  This is the first comprehensive monograph on the art of Frank Bowling OBE RA. Born in British Guyana in 1936, Bowling arrived in England in his late teens, going on to study at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney RA and Derek Boshier. By the early 1960s he had established himself as an original force in the vibrant London art scene, with a style that brilliantly combined figurative, symbolic and abstract elements. Dividing his time between New York and London since the late 1960s, he has developed a unique and virtuosic abstract style in which certain formal aspects of American painterly abstraction are assimilated to a treatment of light and space that consciously recollects the great English landscape painters, Gainsborough, Turner and Constable. In a compelling text Mel Gooding establishes  Bowling as one of the finest British artists of his generation. About the Author: Mel Gooding  is a professor at the Wimbledon School of Art in England, and an art

Peter Minshall | Mas Man Book Description Peter Minshall was born in Guyana and raised in Trinidad, where the traditional carnival, pre-Lent festivals of street dancing and masquerade, or mas', captured his imagination. He left to study theater in England, only to become, in the early 1970s, one of the first designers to create mas' for London's now-legendary Notting Hill Carnival. A run of well-received theater design work in England and the United States brought him back around to the value and potency of Carnival's creative expression, and, gradually, he made it his principal medium. Minshall is now the head of the Callaloo company, which creates mas' productions in Trinidad, from human-sized costumes to 10-foot-tall creatures. Elements of that Trinidadian work have also made appearances at carnivals in Miami, San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo and Kingston, Jamaica, and his designs for the opening ceremonies of more than one Olympics have been seen by millions. Minshal