University of Lagos Art Entrepreneurship Workshop 2012 Sponsored by OYASAF

The Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos will be conducting its second OYASAF sponsored art entrepreneurship workshop for professional artists and students of tertiary institutions. 

Over one hundred artists from across Nigeria are expected to participate in this workshop scheduled to hold in two separate periods from 13-18 April and 7-12 June 2012.  

This year, we would host a guest artist in the first series of collaborative workshop sessions involving photography, writing and drawing anchored by Brett Cook, a well-established African-American artist from Berkeley, California.  

Cook has carried out numerous public projects in the US, the Caribbean, and Mexico. His prized collections can be found in the Smithsonian Institute’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, Studio Museum of Harlem in New York and Harvard University. He is a recipient of the smARTpower residency in Nigeria funded by the US Department of State. Cook would be sharing his work with interested participants and also conducting these workshops in tune with his conceived project for Nigeria titled Sharing Culture at this workshop and in subsequent spaces under the joint partnership of the Bronx Museum of Arts, USA and the Women and Youth Art Foundation, Nigeria.  OYASAF would also be sharing its work from its photographic archives

Ceramic Session during the entrepreneurship workshop last year

Other workshop sessions include jewellery (chain mail/wire knitting /sheet metal work/ bead stringing), Watercolour painting and an open session in ceramics.  
 Facilitators include Ibe Ananaba, Ato Arinze, Sam Ovraiti and Ariyo Oguntimehin.

Date:13-18 April 2012 and 7-12 June 2012

ELIGIBILITY AND PROCEDURE FOR APPLICATION AND DEADLINE
Workshop attendance and participation is free. Applications are invited from interested participants.  Note, the first workshop runs from 13-18 April, 2012.  All applications should indicate only one area of interest, age, telephone number, email, web address and professional affiliation.

Deadline for submission of ALL applications is March 30. Successful candidates will be notified by 2 April, 2012. Participation in these workshops is free. All art supplies would be provided. Sessions hold at the Visual Arts Studio, by the Lagoon front, Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos.

Note:  Accommodation would NOT be provided for any participant. 

For further enquiries contact. 

unilagoyasaf@yahoo.com      
Tel 08070705754 

This workshop is generously sponsored by the Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation (OYASAF) for the Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos.