Lukova�s imagery not one to be confined
Friday, July 03, 2015
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Lukova, a United States-based artist visited Botswana in 2013 to conduct a weeklong workshop at the art studios of Raising Education Within Africa (REWA) in Gaborone. She had come to facilitate design clinics under the auspices of The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDeF).
The workshop that was themed ‘Draw Me Democracy’ was facilitated through UNDF’s ‘Poster for Tomorrow’ is the main project of ‘4 Tomorrow’ – an independent, non-profit organisation founded in 2009 - with the goal to encourage people, both in and outside the design community, to make posters to stimulate debate on issues that affect us all.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...