Experts empower young talents, clamour for enabling environment
06 September 2022 |
1:01 am
The Chief Executive Officer, Sylverscreen Integrated Concepts Limited, Sylvester Aguddah, has called on the government to provide an enabling environment for young talents to thrive.
The Chief Executive Officer, Sylverscreen Integrated Concepts Limited, Sylvester Aguddah, has called on the government to provide an enabling environment for young talents to thrive.
He made the call during the empowerment of some young talents in painting, photography, sculpture, art collectors and connoisseur, recently.
He said he has trained and groomed young ones in schools and workshops on art media, like collage, mixed media, digital painting, sketches, photo art and photography.
Aguddah urged the government to build and fund art villages, as well as revive the textile and paint industries with adequate power supply.
Also, the chief executive officer, Affrornaments, lfeanyichukwu Oraemeka, said “Art Connect Africa” was birthed to promote the exhibition of decorative arts alongside fine arts and to give opportunity to the artists to exhibit their works.
According to her, the platform is ready to empower young artists without platforms to showcase their works, tell their African stories and remain relevant in the industry, as it interprets, explores and presents the ingenuity of African arts and crafts.
One of her trainers, Joshua Osakwuni, a ceramic instructor, said he has taught several persons and even foreigners to start their pottery business, while others get the skills, travel abroad to enhance and advance their capacities.
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