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

making sculptures from construction materials such as bricks and wood. This form of art has come to characterize the works of Dr Lilian Nabulime and Prof Andrew Burton from the University of New Castle. The exhibition, which opened on July 16, 2015 explored the use of local materials such as brooms, wood and brushes as...Read More

The Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art, together with History in Progress Uganda on 14th May 2015 opened a unique Photography exhibition and launched two books, Ebishushani 2 and Ebishushani 3, showcasing work from two Ugandan photographers: Musa Katuramu and Elly Rwakoma. Musa Katuramu, 1913-1986, was a carpenter, a constructor of houses and...Read More

The High Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago, H.E Patrick Edwards, has appreciated the work of Art and Creativity by Dr. Rose Namubiru Kirumira, an internationally renowned sculptor and a lecturer at Margaret Trowell School Industrial and Fine Art, College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT). This was during the opening of the solo exhibition...Read More

his year, the Department of Geomatics and Land Management marks 25 years, and as part of the activities to commemorate this landmark, the department held its inaugural Geomatics Student Exhibition on the 5th of September 2014 in room 3033 in the New CEDAT building. The motivation behind this exhibition was to show case the best...Read More