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In September, “Tavatose/ Sisonke” returns as young learners and students will exhibit in the fourth Edition of this growing Schools and Colleges Exhibition opening on September 14, 2018. After a launch of regional shows in Mutare and Bulawayo; the National Exhibition will come together in Harare.
The gist of this year’s show will be mainly focused on cultivating empathy in young people and over hundreds of works are expected to be on show.
Show Your Care is about showing empathy for others and caring for the environment for societal advancement and sustenance.
The exhibition feeds from provincial schools art competitions held at Regional galleries in Bulawayo and Mutare before selected works were submitted for the National exhibition.
Participants were to create innovative artwork using available resources that interrogates and explore the concept of Unhu/Ubuntu, Love, Unity Compassion and National Heritage stewardship
Through this platform, students are encouraged to explore new horizons in new media such as ICT and explore other new mediums or combinations.
As the art making processes took place during election mood, students from pre — school to A-Level were encouraged to observe and record, imagine and outline through sketches. Painting, Drawing, Photography, Sculpture, Mixed media and any other suitable media to Interpret and synthesise ideas; reorganizing them and apply visual solutions that respond to sub topics and the theme.
Curator of the exhibition Akim Nyakudya is visual artist and art educator with years of classroom teaching, and arts administration, is of the Teachers’ College and Chinhoyi University of Technology respectively.
He says: “For me, creativity is an attitude that brings out passion for the arts – be it music, performing or visual art. As a visual artist and art educator, I believe picture or image making is the ongoing mission to fuse the practice of art making with education.
“Since Image or picture making is a reflective process, transcribing our environment through its representations, developing forms of expression that influence social awareness, I believe art serves to facilitate culture and language as a tool for communication.
“Working as Education Officer at the National Gallery for several years has allowed me to interact with local, regional and international artists, in the process, gaining insight into the contingencies of various art practices. I have borne witness to the value of the arts in giving voice and meaning to both personal and shared realities.
“Through showcasing this, body of work by school children, we hope to expand students’ professional artistic practice and actively serve as avid community makers.”
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