GRANGE
SCHOOL PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP
AT THE
DIDI MUSEUM
VICTORIA
ISLAND, LAGOS.
Eminent ladies, gentlemen and students I am
grateful to the Grange School authority for nominating me as their Artist In
Residence for the year 2016. This year’s
programme is a joint training in printmaking between the famous school at Ikeja
and Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation (BOF) Harmattan Workshop Series in Agbarha –
Otor.
I praise the Grange School for creating the
forum where art practioners interact with their students every year. I have
been involved through the Harmattan Workshop with this type of training for
many years and as such, I consider the partnership as a very healthy and
profitable trend in our educational system.
I commend very highly the performance of the
selected students in the project. They
were excited and very involved in the different processes of creating and
drawing out multiple art works from the templates. I am sure that by now, they recognize that
printmaking is both artistic and scientific and that it also lends itself to
experimentation which is at the root of modern developments.
I thank the Grange School art teachers and
other workers for all that they have done to make the workshop a huge success.
Here I must mention Mr. Onajobi Olumide the Head of the art department . My thanks go to the team from the Harmattan
Workshop – Mrs. Juliet Maja-Pearce, Ojo Olaniyi and Dele Oluseye, who are the
facilitators or instructors also to our two co-ordinators, Bode Olaniran and
Moses Unokwah. I thank Udeme Nyong for
the secretarial works and other assistants for fabricating some of the
materials and assembling both tools and equipment necessary for the workshop.
Finally, I like to appeal to individuals and
cooperate groups to help us with funds that will enable us continue the
interactive and instructive programmes
of the Harmattan Workshop Series which have in the past benefited both young
and old. Thank you
Bruce
Onobrakpeya MFR
Chairman
Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation
June
19, 2016.
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