Amanda Tumusiime

Publications

Solo Exhibitions           

  • Another time and another place: Fundraising for girls’ education in Uganda, 2016.

  • A million dollar paintings for America at UNC-Chapel Hill, 2016.

  • Shattered glass ceiling at Makerere Art Gallery, 2014.

  • Impressions of Grahamstown at Rhodes University, 2014.

  • Hidden treasure at Nommo Gallery, 2005.

  • Women and environment at Alliance Française, 2002.

  • Double heritage at Nommo Gallery, 2000.

  • Hope for Kitgum at Sheraton Hotel Gallery, 1998.                                           

Joint Exhibitions

  • Different but one 21 staff exhibition, Kampala: Makerere University Art Gallery/Makerere Institute of Heritage, Conservation and Restoration, 2017.

  • Murals of contemporary artists (BIG), Kampala: Afri Art Gallery, 2016.

  • Different but one 20 staff exhibition, Kampala: Makerere University Art Gallery/Makerere Institute of Heritage, Conservation and Restoration, 2015.

  • Different but one 17 staff exhibition, Kampala: Makerere University Art Gallery/Makerere Institute of Heritage, Conservation and Restoration, 2013.

  • International Women Day 8th March exhibition at Sheraton Hotel, Kampala, 2013.

  • Different but one 16 staff exhibition, Kampala: Makerere University Art Gallery/Makerere Institute of Heritage, Conservation and Restoration, 2012.

  • International women’s day exhibition at Afri Art Gallery, Kampala, 2012.

  • Different but one 15 staff exhibition, Kampala: Makerere University Art Gallery/Makerere Institute of Heritage, Conservation and Restoration, 2011.

  • International Women Day 8thMarch 2011 at Emin Pasha, Kampala, 2011.

  • 30 artists fundraising exhibition for Child I Foundation at Kabira Hotel, Kampala, 2010.

  • Different but one 14 staff exhibition, Kampala: Makerere University Art Gallery/Makerere Institute of Heritage, Conservation and Restoration, 2010.

  • Different but one 13 staff exhibition, MTSIFA Art Gallery, Kampala, 2009.

  • Different but one 12 staff exhibition, MTSIFA Art Gallery, Kampala, 2008.

  • Different but one 11 staff exhibition, MTSIFA Art Gallery, Kampala, 2007.

  • Different but one 10 staff exhibition, MTSIFA Art Gallery, Kampala, 2006

  • Different but one 9 staff exhibition, MTSIFA Art Gallery, Kampala, 2005.

  • 8th annual exhibition celebrating Women’s Day, Nommo Gallery, Kampala, 2005.

  • Different but one 8 staff exhibition, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala, 2004.

  • Different but one 7 staff exhibition, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala, 2003.

  • Different but one 6 staff exhibition, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala, 2002.

  • All artists exhibition, 4th edition, Nommo Gallery, Kampala, 2002.

  • Uganda Sweden exhibition in Sweden, 2002.

  • All artists exhibition, 5th edition, Nommo Gallery, Kampala, 2001.

  • Nude exhibition, Nommo Gallery, Kampala, 2001.

  • Verloren Verleden: Mordernekunstuit Oeganda. Group exhibition in the Netherlands, 2000.

  • Different but one 5 staff exhibition, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala, 2001.

  • All artists exhibition, 4th edition, Nommo Gallery, Kampala, 2001.

  • Nude exhibition, Nommo Gallery – Kampala, 2001.

  • Different but one 4 staff exhibition, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala, 2000.

  • All artists millennium exhibition, 3rdedition, Nommo Gallery, Kampala, 2000.

  • All artists millennium exhibition, 2rd edition, Nommo Gallery, Kampala, 1999.

  • Different but one 3 staff exhibition, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala, 1999.

  • All artists’ art exhibition 1st edition, Nommo Gallery, Kampala, 1998.

  • Different but one 2 staff exhibition, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala, 1998.

 Conferences

  • African Studies Association, Marriot DC, 2016.

  • Telling Our Stories of Home, North Carolina, USA, 2016.

  • African Studies Association in San Diego, 2015.

  • Uganda-Sweden Art Conference in Sweden, 2001.

  • Language and translating, Food Science and Technology, Makerere University, 2016.

  • Presented a paper at a Regional Sida conference Entebbe entitled On Uganda’s sexist art, 2014.

  • Gendered worlds: Gains and challenges; entitled Uganda women artists engaging tangible visual feminist discourse on gender disequilibrium in Uganda, 2002.

 Academic Workshops 

  • Mentoring PHD candidates at MSIFA, 2016.

  • Mentoring Deaf students on Art at MSIFA, 2016.

  • African Humanities Programme Manuscript Development workshop at Humura Uganda, 2014.

  • Attended a workshop with UNICEF Uganda and UNICEF Finland on the WASH Project at UNICEF Head Office Kampala, 2013.

  • Coordinating a painting workshop on 8 March Women’s Day at Sheraton Hotel, 2012.

  • Participated in a workshop to review the BIFA curriculum, 2010.

  • Ngoma international workshop at Buluba, 1998.

 Seminars/Outreach Lectures 

  • Art history and art practice. Presented at JB Shepherd Public Archives and Leadership Institute Library, USA, 2016.

  • Evolution of gendered art in Uganda. Presented to the Art School, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA, 2016.

  • Interrogating deaf exclusion: Inclusion of deafness and art in our contemporary society. Presented to the non-hearing and hearing youth artists (Makerere and Kyambogo students) at Ntinda School for the Deaf, Uganda, 2017.

  • Linking art and business. Presented to the Business School, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA, 2016.

  • Making connections between art and medicine in Uganda through Margaret Trowell. Presented to Bio-Medical Engineering Students, Duke University, USA, 2016.

  • New artistic innovations at College of Engineering, Design Art and Technology. Presented to the School of Engineering, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA, 2016.

  • Reclaiming Djenne-jeno terracotta statuettes: A complex venture. Seminar paper presented at Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2004.

  • Re-engaging and empowering grassroots women: Looking and finding our space in the global economies. Presented to Kaharo Visionary Women, Makerere University, 2017.

  • Re-envisioning Arenddieperink Museum in Portgiersrus (Mukopane ) to the trio Mukopane Cradle Museum. Seminar paper presented at Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2003.

  • The Apartheid Museum: A social development project or a capitalistic ritual. Seminar paper presented at Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2003.

  • The art of a continent: A contested exhibition. Seminar paper presented at Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2003.

  • The different but one: The different-ness and one-ness at MTSIFA from 1930s to 2003. Seminar paper presented at Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2003.

  • The legacy of ‘looting’ African treasures: A case of Benin’s material culture. Seminar paper presented at Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2003.

  • Trowel, a mother of contemporary art in Uganda, 2016.

  • Unshackling women’s sexuality? Miniskirts, the law, and the media in Uganda. Presented to a graduate class at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2015.

  • Visions and revisions: Re-invisioning histories of phenomenal women in Kigezi. Presented to Kaharo Visionary Women, Makerere University, 2017.

  • Women movements and women’s empowerment in Uganda. Presented at Colorado Heights University, USA, 2016.

  • Women’s monument in South Africa: A future beyond contents. Seminar paper presented at Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2003.

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