The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries, has selected 4,949 entrepreneurs from across Africa for its 2021 Entrepreneurship Programme. The 2021 beneficiaries were selected from a pool of over 400,000 ...
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Raise your hand if you feel pressured to have gallery representation as an artist. If we were all in a room right now, it’s safe to say at least 90% of you would have your hand up. While working with a gallery does provide a seal of approval for your art business, what matters more is ...
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At Art Basel Unlimited, there were several paintings that were so huge that they required their own rooms, but none felt as epically proportioned—both in scale and content—as Meleko Mokgosi's Bread, Butter, and Power. It becomes practically immersive, spanning 21 panels and nearly all four walls ...
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In every aspect of our lives, mental health stirs our domination capacity, willpower, and zeal for life. Ironically, mental health is the most neglected part of society. We often leave our mental health care to events of random chance. As a result, we cripple this important aspect of our being. ...
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A good artistic portfolio consists of planning & Inspired Research: An artist portfolio is first created through preparation. Benjamin Franklin once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”. All great achievements and heights of excellence were mostly possible because of ...
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Let's face it. Even if you are great with your talents, it's not easy to become noticed and famous as an artist. At a time when we are competing to get noticed by people who have limited attention and are already collecting information from a dozen outlets, it can become a draining task to make ...
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Online presence is the new marketing trend for creatives. Visual artists are to be diving into this new trend to develop their portfolios. An active online presence is both a cost-effective and efficient means to reach an audience. The Covid19 pandemic has brought great turbulence to our ...
READ MORE + What is storytelling in an artwork? There is always a story behind any artwork. Storytelling is an art itself; an art that is to be explored, learned, and mastered. Whether personally interpreted or deciphered by the artist, the artwork’s story becomes a source of an emotional trigger, ...
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Artify Botswana is setting the local revolutionary pace for art capacity and appreciation. It is both a pacesetter and an inspirational beacon for creative innovation. The 6th of November 2020 marks the first of many for the online art market-store. In the early Friday morning of that fateful ...
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‘Maragaraga’ is a Tswana term used to define a state of dire confusion; it is synonymous with an amateur’s approach that results in a mediocre outcome. Most Batswana are of the native inclination that abstract art is ‘maragaraga.’ Often tossed around by non-artistic novelties, this ...
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Since industrialization, the Arts have ranked low on the educational hierarchy. STEM subjects usually take precedence in much of today’s academic & economic arena. In efforts to alienate the prejudice associated with the Arts and control leeway for STEM subjects in education, an ...
READ MORE + The plain black Samsung laptop computer, laced with six powerful viruses, represents one of the world's most terrifying threats to Chinese artist Guo O Dong. On Tuesday, his work "The Persistence of Chaos" stunned the art world when it sold for more than $1.3 million at an online auction in ...
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