This year’s Different but One Art Exhibition was held in September featuring recent work by the teaching staff at Margaret Trowel School of Industrial and Fine Art (MTSIFA).  It opened on the 19th of September and will run until 19th October 2022. Being the 25th round, this annual exhibition covers works from all aspects of...Read More

H.E. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at the CEDAT stall, inspecting the locally made diesel engine It was a show of innovations at the Kololo Independence ground as the country marked its 59th Independence Celebrations. At the same Event, H.E. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni launched the #MakerereAt100 logo, signifying the launch of the year-long celebrations of...Read More

Researchers have been called upon to increase awareness about HIV among the population. The call was made by Rtd. Maj. Rubaramira Ruranga, during the opening of Mr Robert Ssewanyana’s art exhibition that sought to create HIV awareness and prevention in slum areas of Kampala. Maj. Rubaramira said the biggest reason for the increase in HIV...Read More

Group photo taken in front of the Gallery at the close of the exhibition Mathias Tusiime, the man who used to fix our white canvases onto frames, assisted female Art students to suspend their murals on high studio walls in the late nineties is now a soaring Ugandan Artist. The popular story about Tusiime receiving...Read More

The College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT) held its 9th Annual Open day on 28th and 29th February 2020. The Open Day, which was launched in 2012 aims at exhibiting and promoting the innovative research ideas of students at the College. This year, the guest of honor at the event was Hon Florence...Read More

Different But One is an annual exhibition featuring the most recent art works by the teaching staff at Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art (MTSIFA). It includes works from all the different disciplines of art in the department: painting, sculpture, ceramics, fashion, jewelry, weaving, video art and more. In her remarks, the exhibition’s...Read More

Frede Hansen (Centre) explains a photo in the exhibition This exhibition featured photographs taken by Frede Hansen and Derrick Ssemwogerere. Frede Hansen is a Danish Art lover and collector who since 1997 has been visiting Uganda every year to buy art works from different artists in the country. Mr. Hansen is also a photographer whose...Read More

Mathias Tusiime with some of his woodcuts on his handmade paper. (Casey Smith) Casey Smith presented on his month-long trip to Kampala, Uganda as part of a cultural immersion program for artists through apexart. He explored the city and prestigious Makerere University in particular, where he learned about their printmaking techniques using hand-registered woodcuts on MDF....Read More

This exhibition is inspired by personal experiences and observations of young women at campus. As a lecturer at Makerere University, I am privileged to interact with many students, both inside and outside class. After talking with many young women about womanhood, I started making sculptures which reflect their fragile responses.  These mostly emphasised expressions, dreams...Read More

The exhibition “Kabbo ka Muwala”, conceived as an itinerant project taking place in Zimbabwe, Uganda and Germany, artistically explored perspectives on the multitude of migration processes in and from Southern and Eastern Africa primarily through the eyes of artists from these regions. A wide range of media, including photo works, videos, mixed media, and installations...Read More