WORKSHOPS

We hold several workshops throughout Nigeria with youth groups and women all year round. These workshops are mostly done by invitation while we usually provide materials and teach for free. The second type of workshop holds annually usually in August and December. In the last two years, for lack of funding, we have only been able to organise only one workshop in August. We ask that each participant contributes a token towards the cost of art materials. Our greatest impact has been through the educational vocational training VCDs that we produce. Through this our impact has been felt much more than the several hands-on workshops that are held annually. We intend that our mission to reach out to women wherever they may be is fulfilled. WYART is indeed a household name in Nigeria and is synonymous with qualitative vocational training. We intend to make it so throughout Africa. It has been a success story and so we invite you to share in this dream whichever way you can.
Women and Youth Art Foundation major workshops have featured:

1. Talent Hunt held (12th -26th August 2005) at Mbari Mbayo School, Yaba. The focus was on beadwork, goldsmithing, recycling waste, calabash painting and glass painting.
2. Jewellers’ Feast on Gold and Gemstones (5th-11th December 2005) at the National Museum, Lagos. The emphasis was on jewelry production- goldsmithing, beadwork and gemstone cutting.

Why art? Because Art is life and Art is beauty. So we try to put in beauty into the lives of people by empowering them through skill acquisition. Art is one aspect through which Nigeria has contributed meaningfully to world civilization. We have had a rich traditional past and our heritage is of great renown....

The main mission of this Foundation is to empower women and youths, without any discrimination based on class, religion or age. We have trained so many women and youths in local and urban communities and also through religious groups that identify

The WYART initiative was borne out of her early life experience. Her mother, Princess Elizabeth Olowu is an artist and as a child she grew up learning a lot from her. She was always engaged in one activity or the other. She was also involved in art training and as a teacher, she not only taught her students while in school but was involved in several