ABOUT CREATE AND CURATE YOUR ART WITH EYIMIEGHA SEIDOUGHA LINUS
It is evident that people with good communication skills
properly express themselves better and succeeded more than those that cannot
communicate effectively; consequently, communication is essential in the lives
of growing children and teenagers, as it will boost their relationship with
peers, help them express themselves in the public, build their self-esteem and
prop-up their academic performance.
While art is a means of self expression; and expressions in
all its forms, be it talking, writing, painting, et al. As a result, the best way
to help the brain cells of growing children is to expose them to practicing art
by creating and curating their works.
It is based on these backgrounds Eyimiegha Seidougha Linus
has designed a new art programme for kids and teenagers tagged: Create
and Curate your Art. The
programme is scheduled to hold on the 25th and 27th May,
2019 at the Negro Art Gallery, Surulere, Lagos from 10am to 6:00pm respectively.
The programme is aimed at helping these youngsters celebrate their Children’s
day creatively.
Eyimiegha Seidougha Linus is a professional visual artist, an
art consultant, certified child right protector, and a curator with over 5
years experience. He is also the C.E.O. of Lyno World (a brand that promotes
the arts especially for young people). Lyno World as a brand have organized
more than 12 art programmes for kids, young artists and students in the past
five years.
This project promises to be fun and it will expose participants
to the media and the art community here in Lagos, Nigeria. Added to the
exhibition on the 27th May, 2019 we will have fun fare for kids that
will come and visit the show. Participants will learn the aptitude to
creatively make decisions and take risk, the ability to express their emotions
through opinions they portray in their works, develop a fine eye-hand motor
coordination, the ability to communicate to people verbally (with proper use of
body gestures), the programme will build their profile and they
will meet prospective art patrons.
What I do is
to propagate Process Art (a contemporary art movement that is concerned more
on the process of making art as it connects to exercising the billions of cells
in the brain than expecting a particular end result). What I have done with
kids in the past is to talk them into creating art. I do not hold their hands
to create art; I allow them to draw what is in their head. I know what to tell
them and they end up producing great pieces. I only give them themes to work on
but never expect to see the same result from them. I am not in their brains, so
I encourage them to express themselves in the best way they can. If I make any
effort to tell them the kind of results I expect, I have defeated the effort of
promoting their creative ingenuity.
In some of my
past programmes kids will come to me, Uncle Linus, they will ask ‘can I draw a
fish?’ I will say go ahead, when I knew I told them to draw their class
teacher. I have said yes because that particular child probably at that time
has no personal connection to the teacher. When you ask them to draw their
teacher, they most times will be telling a story about their teacher that has
been in their memory rather than the portrait of the class teacher. Some would
draw a portrait emphasizing something about that particular teacher that has
been in their head. Maybe a particular outfit he/ she wore one day or emphasize
a particular feature of their teacher or even an event that happened in the
class. I am happy helping kids express
themselves and in most occasions I discuss their creations with them.
I have
discovered that children are more sincere artists than some of us that went to art
schools. They do not forge their works because of money; they say it just the
way it is. Most people we call professional artists paint diluted expressions
to satisfy viewers and gallery proprietors for the reason that they are more
interested in the money than the art and its value.
This
exhibition is all about helping young people maximize their potentials and I
will encourage them to do work more on themes related to our local environment.
