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March 2013
The Choma Museum e-mail address is: chomamuseum@gmail.com.
Mail to that address will be read by Mwimanji Chellah, executive director of the
CMCC. Peggy Himoonde is in charge of the Art Gallery. For information about the
forthcoming CM Art Gallery exhibitions you may also contact Bert Witkamp at zfactor@zamtel.zm. He also is the editor of this newsletter. The newsletter is published at the
Choma Museum Art Gallery website chomamuseumartgallery.weebly.com. It is small but keeps you updated as
to what is happening in the gallery. And, of course, on the ZamArt Blog.
2 PREVIOUS EXHIBITION: THE CMCC 2012 X-MASS EXHIBITION OF
ARTS AND CRAFTS OF THE SOUTHERN PROVINCE
The exhibition was taken down end of February. It was the first time in
a long time that the CMCC Art Gallery had put up a regular art exhibition. A
number of organizational issues had to be put into place particularly as
regards adequate staff attendance. No visitor records were kept. Sales amounted
to about Kr 10,000 of which the institution retained its commission of 25%. The
exhibition, all in all, was reasonable successful though it highlighted several
issues needing improvement.
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CURRENT EXHIBITION: WOMEN IN ART – art by or about
women
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| Women at Work. Kalubi. Acrylic painting, 1991. |
The exhibition as scheduled opened March
2nd and shall run till the end of May 2013. On display again is a
mix of fine art and applied art or crafts – one advantage being that also
visitors with little money can spend some. The number of recorded visitors to
date is about 200 – a number that should rise in the future. This time the
exhibition had been announced by the Lusaka Lowdown. The gallery should consider
opening a face book page; something many art organisations in the region
already have done. The exhibition was also published by this electronic
newsletter, on the Art Gallery website and the Zamfactor website. Publicity therefore
was much better than at the previous exhibition. Another improvement is the
labelling which now is neatly printed and the introduction of the visitors’
record.
The exhibition itself has a large
variety of interesting work to show, in time ranging from the seventies to early
this year; from first generation post Independence Zambian artists as Henry Tayali,
David Chibwe, Patrick Mweemba, Stephen Kappata, Kalubi and Fackson Kulya to recent
residents like Barbara Lechner; from crafts people dipping into the fine arts
like Esnart Han’goma Mweemba to well established full time artists like Agnes
Mbuya Yombwe, Lutanda Mwamba and Bert Witkamp. In addition to fine art you can also see beautiful
jewelry and batiks as well as practical textiles by a Pemba women’s club or
plastic baskets and hats made of recycled material by local Keep Choma Clean
supporter. And of course, there is the permanent display of work
by the Kalcho water colour artists.
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| Nachisungu II. Lutanda, linocut, 1993. |
4 EXHIBITION “GRAPHIC ART OF ZAMBIA.”
Preparations continue for this major exhibition scheduled
for 8 June-September 2013. On display: drawings (ink or pencil) and prints of
Zambian artists and artists working in Zambia. With work by: David Chibwe,
Fakson Kulya, William Miko, Lutanda Mwamba, Bert Witkamp, Patrick Mweemba, Esnart
Meeemba, Cynthia Zukas, Agnes Yombwe, Jonathan Leya, Benjamin Mibenge, Henry
Tayali, Aquila Simpasse and Godfrey Setti. Others interested may still join by
contacting us by e-mail or phone. Work on display will be submitted by artists
and private collections. Major concerns at the present: fund raising for
opening, catalogue and other operating expenses, timely publicity, and
inclusion in the list of places to visit during the UN TWO conference.
5 MID AND LONG TERM PLAN FOR ART GALLERY
It is time to come up with a Practical Plan for
the Choma Museum Art Gallery; a plan that has vision, is feasible, inspired and
inspiring, of this time and age, puts the gallery on solid economic ground, and
of course: MAKES ART WORK. Any ideas?
Note: You are welcome to notify art events for posting on the
Choma Museum Art Gallery website or ZamArt Blog by using the e-mail addresses
above.
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