MEET OUR ARTISTS & ASSOCIATIONS
Jan Tcega John
Jan grew up in Botswana in the small village of D’kar situated in the Kalahari Desert. D’kar is mainly inhabited by San people who are the indigenous people of Southern Africa.
Jan is a very dedicated artist and joined the Kuru Art Project in 2005. He enjoys to depict elements of his culture as well as plants and animals endemic to the Kalahari.
Sunset in The Kalahari
In this painting that he created especially for this project, Jan Tcega depicts one of the many beautiful sunsets that can be witnessed in the Kalahari.
A cheetah, giraffe, gemsbok and red hartebeest are depicted together with stars and last bits of sunlight often seen at dusk. Brightly colored flowers are also portrayed among the animals.
Blaine Harrington III
Over a 45 year career, American photographer Blaine Harrington III has traveled the world for major international publications. Equally versed with landscapes as with people, wildlife and action photography, his fascination with the world has never diminished. Harrington’s philosophy for life: Go everywhere, meet everyone, try everything! To see more of his work from over 80 countries,
visit his website at: www.blaineharrington.com.
Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta is in the northern part of Botswana.
During the raining season, all the water that poors in the Angolan’s mountain finish there race in the dry plains of the Okavango creating this magical phenomena of an inland delta
Ann Mary Gollifer
Ann Mary Gollifer (b.1960) is a British-Guyanese visual artist based in Gaborone, Botswana since 1985. She currently works from her studio in Gaborone and is Vice Chairperson of the Art residency Centre, Gaborone Botswana.
Steve Jobson described Gollifer’s works in his catalogue statement for the 2009 Artists in Botswana Exhibition, National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone: ”Ann Gollifer is an artist who, through her personal search, has cut a path of innovation, technical and aesthetic excellence and ambitiousness which has made many of us explore our own limitations with more skepticism. Unsurprisingly, we are again subjected to a sensuous treat of the delicate and powerful.”
http://www.anngollifer.org, https://gunsandrain.com/artist/ann-gollifer/, Ann Gollifer
Fabrique Afrique
Fabrique Afrique is part of triptych Ann painted in.
Could you recognize all the flags in ?
The associations
THE KURU ART PROJECT
The Kuru Art Project is a community development project situated in the village of D’kar in Western Botswana.
The Kuru Art Project endeavors to equip artists with modern methods, materials.
But also a sustainable environment to be able to experiment and create freely.
Currently there are twenty artists from the Naro and Dcui San groups actively participating in the project.
Art Residency Center (ARC) Gaborone
ARC Gaborone is an artist led cultural initiative, based at the Gaborone Sports and Social Club in the Village, Gaborone.
The centre supports the development of creative projects from visual artists, poets, writers, film makers, theatre practitioners and dancers from Botswana and offers studio space to a resident artist every three months.
Moreover, it runs a book exchange from its ARChive-studio and reference library.
The centre currently runs a spoken word poetry session, a cinema club and hosts theatre groups and art exhbitions.