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Content Producer Diana Ringtho: “I love to create visual experiences that...
We are in a time of a content revolution where content is king. With the emergence of content platforms like Netflix, Amazon and YouTube, creatives now find it much easier to get their work out to the...
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Open Call: Transdisciplinary Regenerative Encounter Residency Uganda (TRERU)
19_08_09_HALL07_akniste_vandenbrekel Initiated by he Dutch-Belgian art collective TAAT, the Transdisciplinary Regenerative Encounter Residency Uganda (TRERU) focusses on regenerative, creative...
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Keren Okuruvu: “Creatives are not very employable in a 9 to 5 job”
In this podcast, you will get to hear about the passion of Keren Okuruvu, a marketer who wants to take creatives to the next level. She is the founder and managing director of Brand Factory, a...
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Kamanzi R: “There is always a level of sacrifice if you want to achieve a...
In this Design Hustle podcast episode, Patricia Opio speaks to Kamanzi R., a musician and songwriter. She tells us how she navigates the creative industry in Uganda and what drives her in her work as a...
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Michelle Ivy Alwedo: I am publishing my poetry as e-chapbooks
In this Design Hustle podcast episode, I talk to Michelle Ivy, an author and poet. She tells us how she navigates the creative industry in Uganda. She is currently publishing e-chapbooks with cradling...
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Jonathan Asuma of Rhoots Concepts: I invested a lot in finding myself
In this Design Hustle podcast episode, our host Patrica Opio talks to Jonathan Asuma, a product designer based in Kampala. Jonathan Asuma leads the team at Rhoots Concepts, a research and development...
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Ovonji, The Story Teller
This year was announced as the United Nations International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable development and hence we have seen a rise in content creators and creatives. One field that is...
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Notes About The Times – Kayem’s response to COVID-19
Installation “Afrika is not getting it” from Notes about the times at Modzi Arts by Matt Kayem. Covid-19 all caught us all by surprise. Ugandan contemporary artist Matt Kayem had just arrived in...
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Illustrator for social change- Podcast with Desire Katana
In this episode of the Design Hustle Podcast, we are introduced to Desire Katana, an illustrator. He tells us about his passion for the visual arts and how he wants to use it for social change. He...
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An illustration can be really powerful in communication – Diana Bwengye
Diana Bwengye has been working as a creative for the last 12 years. She started as an illustrator and then expanded her skills to include graphic design and is currently a communication design...
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Using blockchain technology to protect intellectual property rights of artists
In this Design Hustle Podcast episode, musician Keya Nemesis gives us a glimpse into his passion for rapping. He also elaborates on how he intends to make a difference in the music industry in Uganda...
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Rachael Kangumba: Industrial design is still a male dominated profession
In this Design Hussle episode, I talk to Rachael Kangumba, a creative extraordinaire who is using her creativity to mentor youth. She is also one of the founders of Leaves Arts and Animations, a...
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Pamela Enyonu: “Don’t rush a career change, give yourself time”
In this new podcast episode, we are introduced to multi-faceted creative, Pamela Enyonu who works and creates in different creative fields and formats. Fortunately for me I like problems, I absolutely...
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Kla Art Over All The Hurdles
Part of Odur’s installation Muwawa. Kla Art is finally back this year. The bi-annual art festival, which was supposed to take place in August 2020, was postponed to this year and who is not happy to...
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Oroma Geoffrey -The Architect That Makes Music Accessible
Writers and theorists have long misquoted German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) as having said “music is liquid architecture, architecture is frozen music.” It was later adapted to...
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Kaleab Abate – The In Between
Kaleab Abate, Fantasized Reality, 2022 (detail), Mixed Media on Paper, 101.5x101.5cm Courtesy of Afriart Gallery Kaleab Abate’s print works usher us into a complicated space of existence between...
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Henry Mzili Mujunga’s Indigenous Expressionism
Henry Mzili Mujunga, African Odalisque, 2016, Courtesy of the artistHenry Mujunga aka Mzili is a legend in the local art scene of Kampala. Having attended Makerere Art School from 1993 to 1995, some of...
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Emmie Nume-A Diamond in the Rough
Emmie Nume, I am, 2021, Mixed Media on Paper, 125.5x110cm, Courtesy of Afriart GalleryPromiscuous dark charcoal scribbles and smudges coupled with a few sporadic pastel and acrylic paint highlights...
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WHEN WE SEE US; A Conversation with Curator Tandazani Dhlakama on the...
Exhibition View: When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration In Painting, Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town (20th November 2022-3rd September 2023) Courtesy of Zeitz Mocaa. Photo: Dillon Marsh“…I think for many...
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Daniel Atenyi: A Soul Star In The Making
Scenes from Daniel Atenyi's open studio at Silhouette Projects, August 2023As I am scrolling through my Instagram as usual, my eyes rest on a predominantly black and white poster for an open studio on...
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