Celebrated writer and artist, Dr. Margarreta wa Gacheru, shared her experience of the Kenyan Art Scene with students from the school. The lecture titled: Opportunities, Issues and Competition was a journey down a memory lane of the growing Art landscape in Kenya spread across post independence period.
Celebrated writer and artist, Dr. Margarreta wa Gacheru, shared her experience of the Kenyan Art Scene with students from the school. The lecture titled: Opportunities, Issues and Competition was a journey down a memory lane of the growing Art landscape in Kenya spread across post independence period.
Dr. Gacheru enlisted the developments made in the era demystifying stereotypes that Arts was not a favourable venture. She noted that there has been tremendous growth in the Scene presenting opportunities both in practice as well as academically.
Art has been recorded by Artist in Museums, Creativity galleries and or Hotels world over.
In Kenya, there has been notable expansion from the graffiti phenomenon which is a short lived activity for Artist. Remarkable art galleries like Brush tu Artists Collective, Studio Soko, Dust Depo, Art Orodho, Kitengela Glass Trust and Karen Village are now providing space for lovers of art as well as for budding artists to explore their talents.
Historians such as Peter Kamwati and Paul Onditi are also using art to tell stories. The use of Abstract school of thought is embraced by other artists like Beatrice Wanjiku.
The writer has an indelible mark in covering the Kenyan cultural scene in decades in publications such as Weekly Review and Nation Media Group. Dr. Gacheru Doctoral studies are on The Transformation of Contemporary Kenyan Art Scene: 1960-2010. She currently focuses on the performing and Visual Arts
The talk was held on 20th February,2020 at space 108 ADD building
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