2021 Tilga Art Fund Recipients
Tilga Art Fund partnered with Rele Foundation for the 2021 Awards. Unlike the previous year, we awarded grants to each of Rele Young Contemporaries to create works that were presented at the Young Contemporaries show at Rele Gallery.
The Fund recipients are Micheal Igwe (2nd year awardee), IyunOla Sanyaolu, Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro, Victor Olaoye, Rachel Seidu, David Otaru and Aghogho Otega
Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art Nigerian History Sponsorship
Tilga Fund for the Arts is proud to support The Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art (YSMA) Nigerian History Through Fifteen Artworks initiative with a grant to produce the first edition of prints of the selected artworks.
The Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art of Pan-Atlantic University is an educational museum at the service of the university and the whole community. They believe that artworks, besides allowing viewers to experience multiple forms of beauty, meaning and skill, can also be an excellent educational resource to help persons of all ages engage, discover and learn about the history and culture of Nigeria. With this aim of teaching history through art, YSMA has designed a full-day program for senior secondary school students: “Nigerian History Through Fifteen Artworks”.
Using as a starting point fifteen artworks from the extensive art collection at the museum, the students will be able to learn about significant historical events and periods that have shaped the cultural and social heritage of Nigeria as we know it. Young learners will relive history in a different environment from the classroom and discover how art can capture moments of life in time.
The program involves a tour of the museum, with focus on the fifteen artworks, along with a video session. This will be followed by a discussion session between the students and the educator/artist.
