Visual arts get massive boost
Spira Tlhankane | Friday May 22, 2020 11:40
The entity will facilitate the project by calling on 10 fashion designers across Botswana to produce a total of 1, 000 face-masks.
“This initiative is in support of the lockdown relaxation requirements as communicated by the Government of Botswana”, says FNBB.
Besides fashion, other visual arts like fine arts get to benefit because FNBB is looking to engage two associations that specialise in fine arts. Successful entities will be rewarded with sponsorship funds valued at P35, 000 each.
The associations should have the experience and reach to facilitate online art lessons that will lead into an art competition.
The jobs will be spread across different categories such as painting, drawing or sculpting. Photographers who are amongst the biggest beneficiaries of the fund have been called to produce a COVID-19 memoirs photobook and the sponsorship is valued at P75, 000 including production and payment of content used.
According to the requirements outlined by FNBB, the size of the photobook should be large landscape (33 cm ×28 cm).
The sponsorship is open to producers who will facilitate purchase of photographic content from local photographers to be featured in this production. A selected FNBB Committee will review submissions and evaluate in accordance with readiness to action the proposal, experience, creativity and quality.
Fashion entities, fine artists and photographers can all submit their proposals and profiles to csi@fnbbotswana.co.bw no later than May 29, 2020.
The review process may take up to one week and only successful candidates will be contacted. The initiative is open to Botswana citizens only and the content remains the intellectual property of the artist post the competition.