ARTIST CAPTURES UGANDAN WILDLIFE
Visitors to Taga Nuwagaba’s exhibition opening at DCI Gallery (772 Brookhaven Circle East) tonight from 6 to 8 will see plenty of wildlife from the artist’s native Uganda.
The artist, born in 1968, has spent this academic year as Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Christian Brothers University, teaching drawing and painting to students he described as “great.” He returns to Kampala in May.
Nuwagaba, who lives in the capital, Kampala, is one of that country’s foremost portrayers of animals, specializing in threatened and endangered species.
The exhibition will promote uganda as a tourism destination,increase and enlarge the tourism market to uganda by portraying Uganda’s natural endowments.
Uganda is a small, land-locked African country lying on the Equator and bounded by Kenya on the east, Sudan on the north and Zaire on the west. Much of its southern border marks the shore of Lake Victoria.The country boosts of its wide range of wildlife like birds, Gorrillas and dirrerent national parks.