Apply for the Collide Residency Program 2025
The Collide Residency Program 2025 is designed to support artists in conducting research on their proposals and engaging in meaningful conversations with engineers, scientists, and staff. Read more about Opportunities It is a two-month, fully funded residency program that will be split between Switzerland and Denmark, as participants will spend the first month at […]
Selling Techniques For Creative Artists
Creativity and Artists are two different things, having different traits although overlapping. Creativity is an original idea or mental imaginary to solve a problem. While artistry is referring to a craft or imaginative skill. Read more about Marketing A unique art requires creativity because it seems impossible to be artistic and not creative. Types […]
Leading Artists In Nigeria’s NFT Scene
Conversations about non-fungible tokens (NFTs) across the world are inevitable these days and Nigeria is at the forefront Of these conversations. So far, Nigeria is the 6th largest adopter of NFTs, according to a survey by Finder which also hints that NFT adoption will soon double across Africa. Read more about Fintech The innovation of […]
Did You Know? The First Black Artist To Paint An Official Portrait Of The US President Is A Nigerian
Kehinde Wiley! That’s the name. Kehinde Wiley. Kehinde Wiley was born on February 28, 1977. He is an African-American portrait painter based in New York City, who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of black people. He was commissioned in 2017 to paint a portrait of former President Barack Obama for the Smithsonian National […]
See Which Nigerians Left A Lasting Impression On Billboard World Charts
Billboard Magazine is a popular music magazine, especially popular in the 80s and 90s. Billboard is known for its music charts, most famously, the Hot 100 Chart and the 200 Album Chart. Little wonder it was big news when Wizkid’s collaboration with Drake, titled One Dance, recently made it to number one on the Billboard Hot […]
7 Business Ideas for Nigerian Creatives
How do you make a living off your passion for pretty colour combinations and finely sculpted statues? Could you offer your exceptional ability to communicate with written words as a service for which you’ll get paid? Might your love for aesthetically pleasing spaces be a window into an enterprise that earns from reordering workplaces and […]
#WeAreNigerianCreatives Inspires Internet-Based Audience
With an incredible amount of patience and skills, hyper realistic drawings, which refer to producing artwork that resembles real life, are currently flooding the Nigerian art. Fatola Israel is one of the many artists representing this genre of art work. While there are many ways as an artist to express one’s imagination on the surface […]
Career of the Week – Matthew Eguavoen, Portrait Artist
Matthew Eguavoen graduated with a 2:1 in Civil Engineering from the University of Port Harcourt, and is building an admirable career as a portrait artist while searching for an engineering job. CN: When did you first discover your talent? I was 13 years at the time, my elder sister had just registered to train as […]
Kelvin Okafor: The Nigerian Artist Whose Stunning Portraits Have Captured the World’s Attention
Kelvin Okafor’s hand-drawn portraits are stunning. You could be forgiven for thinking that his pencil-etched works are actually monochrome photographs but they’re not. They are simply the breathtaking products of an artist so dedicated to form and detail as nature lends it to his senses, that he takes great pains to reproduce them with amazing […]
Bellafricana: Making African Crafts Globally Accessible
There is something eccentric about the lover of culture that mere admirers may not be able to figure out on the spot. In case you have been struck with awe by one of these culture enthusiast, especially the African culture, here’s the secret behind it. Uniqueness is born out of a need to look different […]
Art Forum Africa to Hold this November
Are you an art professional or enthusiast? Wana Udobang of Wanawana.net and Bukola Oye of The Sole Adventurer bring you Art Forum Africa, themed “Where Are The Women In Visual Arts?” Art Forum Africa (AFA) is a discourse initiative that seeks to address matters that concern artists, curators, collectors, governments, art and culture managers, and […]
EXCLUSIVE: NEA Awards Itinerary (Full details)
It’s exactly 60 days (2 months) to the 7th Annual NEA Awards in New York and the city is buzzing. Labour Day weekend this year (Aug 31 through Sept 2nd), the biggest African entertainers will converge in New York City as nominees, performers and guests for the NEA Awards.