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May 1st, 2023 Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti is our first 2023 Art Writing Residency Fellowship Recipient ARAK Collection is happy to announce Ticha as our first recipient of the Arak Collection Art Writing Residency Fellowship for 2023. Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti is a Cape Town based writer and art historian with research interests in the marginalized Black…

April 7 , 2023 Nneoma Angela Okorie is our second 2023 Curatorial Residency Fellowship Recipient ARAK Collection is happy to announce Nneoma  as our second recipient of the Arak Collection Curatorial Residency Fellowship for 2023. Nneoma Angela Okorie is a curator, writer and researcher currently based in Accra, Ghana. Her curatorial & research practice is…

February 1, 2023 ARAK Collection is happy to announce Mirembe as our first recipient of the Arak Collection Curatorial Residency Fellowship for 2023. MIREMBE works with art as a curator, editor, writer and researcher. Mirembe was a 2022 Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa & University of the Western Cape (UWC) Museum fellow. They were…

November 2, 2021 ARAK Collection is happy to announce Rahiem Shadad as our second recipient of the Arak Collection Curatorial Residency Fellowship for 2021, an up-coming curator from Sudan, invested in providing more local and international exposure to sudanese creations whether modern or contemporary. Current curator for the Downtown Gallery and co-curator for the Regional…

Mai 7, 2021 ARAK Collection is happy to announce Favour Ritaro  as our first recipient of the Arak Collection Curatorial Residency Fellowship for 2021, a Nigerian curator whose research and curatorial work is focused on personal and cultural identities. She explores how African artists capture, process, and map their cultural inheritance. Favour is interested in…

November 20, 2020 ARAK Collection is happy to announce Fulufhelo Mobadi as our second Curatorial Residency Fellowship Recipient for 2020. Fulufhelo Mobadi is a South African photographer and curator. Her curatorial and photographic practice focuses on the day-to-day struggles of women within contemporary South Africa and the African continent more broadly. Fulufhelo currently works as…

September 1, 2020 ARAK Collection is happy to announce Sarah Abdu Bushra as our first recipient of the Arak Collection Curatorial Residency Fellowship for 2020. Sarah is a curator of visual and performing arts exhibitions. She’s a co-founder of Contemporary Nights, an Addis Ababa based curatorial forum. In her creative research practice, Sarah works with…