Stringing techniques are key to getting the desired effect in your artwork. Start by hammering nails along the outline of ...

Using African embroidery as accent pieces is an effective way to introduce this art form into your home without making ...

Onyinyechi Jennifer Omole is a United Kingdom-based Nigerian artist. Onyinyechi draws inspiration from the vibrant colours, intricate patterns, and compelling stories found in African fabrics. Growing ...

Review of the 1987 exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, "Patterns of Life : West African Strip-weaving Traditions." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20 ...

African art is having a vogue moment. People are very interested in it, but there’s still a sense of Africa and African art as something of an exotic “other” that sits on the periphery and not really ...

In the United States and Europe during the early twentieth century, the arts of Africa inspired many early twentieth century European and American modern artists, including, perhaps most famously, the ...

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, designed to elevate the work of contemporary African artists, has found its latest artist to thrust into the spotlight. Inspired by Moroccan architecture and ...

As Brooklin A. Soumahoro made his way through his industrial-style studio in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Glassell Park, he pointed out oil paintings in various stages of completion, and compared ...

Silk is not typically associated with Africa, but the luxurious cloth has been produced there for centuries. Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa, an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) now on view ...

What Kofisi Art Gallery have done is breathe life into spaces that would normally be considered stiff because of their corporate nature. Their first show dubbed Force Field is perhaps the exhibition ...

With a world-class museum that is the biggest public art space to open on the continent for more than a century, annual art fairs in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and vibrant gallery scenes that have ...