Fola David secures $25,000 grant from South African arts commission

A $25,000 in grant funding through the South Africa National Lottery Commission for Arts, Culture and Heritage Sector has been awarded to Nigerian visual artist, Fola David, in partnership with NORTHCA Development Projects and Lekgoledi Arts and Cultural Centre (LACC).

The project will help implement a portfolio of visual art and digital art developmental projects in Limpopo, Lagos and Northern Cape.

The grant is aimed at providing young visual artists the much needed opportunity to participate and benefit from a digital art gallery, visual art talent development and a South Africa-Nigeria Residency and Exchange Initiative.

This partnership will also see the development of an animated cultural heritage project and animation hubs, in conjunction with Digital Canvas Academy, across multiple African countries, the first of which has been established in Limpopo, South Africa.

The head of visual arts development programme of the partnership, Dr Fola David said the funding would be used “to further the plans for the creation of a system where new and budding African artists can receive mentorship, training and proper representation.”

The LACC is a women and youth-led innovative rural-based community arts organisation in Limpopo Province.

LACC continues to pioneer the development, growth and professionalisation of the rural creative and cultural arts sector through its increased involvement in a number of arts, culture and heritage projects.

Preparations for the launch of the digital gallery are underway and master classes for young artists in the listed provinces have begun.

The animation hub in Limpopo is now full operational and Lagos hub is in progress.

Mr Nkgodisheng Livingstone Mphahlele, business development consultant for LACC, says: “This International collaboration on this project opens us to a lot of possibilities and we are breaking new frontiers in arts, culture and heritage in Africa, one region at a time.”

The South Africa-Nigeria Residency and Exchange Initiative will begin next year and will see artists from Nigeria offered fully-funded residency in South Africa and vice versa on a yearly basis.

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