ART PROGRAMME

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 25^th and 27^th 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 27^th 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.