Nkawana couple to exhibit therapeutic art

Nkawana couple to exhibit therapeutic art
Nkawana couple to exhibit therapeutic art

The 2016 winner of the Thapong Artist of the Year Awards (TAYA), Thato Nkawana will host an art exhibition, Art from Heart, at the Alliance Française in Gaborone on November 27, 2020.

The charity exhibition is meant to raise awareness about mental health. It is an initiative of Nkawana and spouse, Mayann Nkawana. The art exhibition features 2, 000 A5 drawings and paintings from the couple’s gallery. 

“We have managed to complete 2,000 works and they will benefit people who have been mentally affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19). We realised that a lot of people are sidelined when it comes to issues of mental health. We tend to focus on how people are starving and losing jobs because of COVID-19, but we forget the mental health aspect. A lot of people are suffering from anxiety and depression, so we decided to do an exhibition to benefit this often overlooked issue,” he told Arts & Culture.

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