On AFRICAN CHILD DAY 2012

 

Remembering the brave South African youth, who rose up on June 16, 1976, and helped change their nation and the world.

This year, I stood for FREE ART EDUCATION with ART SCOUT on AFRICAN CHILD DAY… For all of us in the ART SCOUT team, Art is more of a bigger calling, ART for SOCIAL CHANGE. We are so passionate about art and affecting the world positively with our artistic prowess and dexterity. That was what brought us together, that was the bonding. We regularly take FREE ART EDUCATION to the less privilege kids in the villages and other remote areas in the country but this is a unique experience.

 The African Child Day presented us another chance to touch the lives of the kids at the rural areas. The project was to complement what the management of STAR FOUNDATION MISSION SCHOOL has been doing for some years with the poor kids of Ashabaala village and environs, FREE EDUCATION!

We had a wonderful moment with the kids, exchanging art as a gift of HOPE with the kids, and we hope they grow up to impact a change in their world… we are AMBASSADORS of HOPE using ART as a tool.

View more images on the links below:

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EXHIBITING WITH PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA: 'ORISUN'

  As a child, I was so keen about art and through my life sojourn I have lived for the art. Today, my artistic style has evolved and reflects the connection to my rich African cultural heritage... May 30, 2012 was so huge and significant in my career as an artist as I had the honour to exhibit my paintings along side with the collections of works (literatures) and collected traditional art works (sculptural pieces) of the great icon, Nobel laureate, professor Wole Soyinka. There are over fifty art works on display by over thirty artists with the theme 'ORISUN' at the Olumo Rock exhibition hall, Abeokuta. The Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun was at the opening event. The exhibition will run till Mid-June, 2012.

More photographs from the exhibition could be accessed on the link below:

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THE MOST EXHIBITED NIGERIAN ARTIST, KOLADE OSHINOWO

 

It was such a great honour to grace the May exhibition of the great master, Kolade Oshinowo at the prestigious Nike Art Gallery, Lagos.

More photographs from the exhibition could be accessed on the link below:

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Olusegun, Anidugbe. Dolapo, Kolade Oshinowo, Nike, Adenle, Alonge, Tejuoso

CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY ART CLASS

Regrettably I wasn’t in Kenya as proposed this April, but I was at a three weeks vacation creative art classes for the children from the Abeokuta metropolis. A project by Gateway Arts Society supported by ART SCOUT, tagged PLAY and PAINT was created to engage the little kids in creative arts. Olusegun Adeniyi and Adeoye daCosta of ART SCOUT were there to turn the play time of these young ones into creative engagement filled with fun and artistic rendering. No other activity could beat the true joy, fun and creativity this platform offered these kids. It was exhilarating; see more images on the link below:

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Visiting Nigeria? And thinking of a place to volunteer?

Visiting Nigeria soon? And need a place to volunteer?
BEMA HOME is it! A home, that cares for the orphans and the less privileged, touching lives with a great sense of commitment, responsibility and hospitality. The orphanage home is located in a small community of Piwoyi Village, off Airport road, Abuja. The home also runs an elementary school that caters for the less privileged kids in the neighborhood. There are opportunities to teach English, creative art and other subjects. Here you can combine service to humanity and adventure with a great sense of
accomplishment. To learn more, send a mail to: artscoutafrica@gmail.com

COLLAGE PAPER BALLS from RECYCLED MATERIALS with the AFRICAN KIDS

Later this year, I will be creating COLLAGE PAPER BALLS from RECYCLED MATERIALS with the less privileged kids from African's public schools and orphanage homes.

See samples of this project on:

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My intent for this project is to build environmental art projects with the less privileged kids to increase eco-awareness, nurture creativity, strengthen community engagement and participatory in global sport.

RECYCLING WASTES FOR AESTHETIC, A COMMUNITY BASED PROJECT FOR THE KIDS

Kids imagine creating works of art from the used cans, pure water sachets, and all manner of rubbish littered our streets, in our dustbin or garbage disposals. The new media, eroding our garbage off the street recycled, re-use and reduce the volume of rubbish littering our environment. The other part of the project is known as D’ASOROGI (AN ENVIRONMENTAL ART). This philosophical title means “creating or wearing garments for trees. It is otherwise called installing garments on trees. Ordinarily, trees don’t wear clothe, but the natural bark. Some ugly at sight, some harmful if touched while few are fascinating and friendly, some are badly harvested by man for food or concoction used for natural health. By implications installing garments make trees wear new look, gives a sigh of relief to viewers and are drawn closer to view, appreciate or sit on them. Standing trees are installed together with seats all wearing garments. It could serve as aesthetics and functional where people seat and relax. The essence of this project was to encourage community oriented projects among the young ones. These kids offered to their community form of aesthetic 0btained from waste cellophane and logs of intended firewood.

A link to “DASHOROGI WITH THE KIDS from FCE Staff School, Abeokuta”

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150675540866159.456503.724076158&type=3&l=298595cf46

link to ART WORKS FROM THE WASTES!

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