FRANCISTOWN: Northern Art Teachers Association (NATA) held its 18th annual regional art exhibition at Super Spar under the theme, 'Art the key to sustainable development towards economic diversification' recently.The Ghetto people had time to view the demonstrations of students designing artworks on the scene. The artworks had different categories, which are painting, drawing, sculpture, crafts, basketry and design.NATA exhibition attracted students from the junior and senior secondary schools in the North East Region together with their teachers with a good turn up of the public more interested in how the students design their artworks.In his welcome remarks Terry Rankhudu explained that NATA is an innovation that came about with the aim of bringing art teachers and students in the North East Region together.
"NATA is the first arts association in the country formed back in 1995. It is where teachers would meet and discuss how to approach the daily challenges of teaching art and they later came up with the idea of having students compete among each other," said Rankhudu.Rankhudu said the arts exhibitions have improved tremendously as compared to the past years because art teachers were sent abroad to further their studies in art.He said proof of this could be established by the high standards of the artworks that the students designed and exhibited.
