Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts (MTSIFA) Collections
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Bwola dance: an icon of peace-building in the post-war Acholi society, as inspiration for textile design
(Makerere University, 2019-12)The arts, especially drama, dance and music, have been one outlet for grassroots people to culturally express the deep-rooted conflicts in their society and to reach out to communities for justice and reconciliation. This ... -
Designing apparel for the global stage inspired by Bakiga proverbs to depict women’s social status.
(Makerere University, 2023-10-18)The Rukiga language is represented in an oral culture which manifests a propagation of art forms expressing the Bakiga’s wealth of music, dance, drama and other oral art forms(Kanyesigye, 2019). The Rukiga culture is ... -
Contribution of woven mudfish basket to the development of weaving in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-12-11)Mudfish basketry is intertwined with nearly every aspect of Ugandan families, communities, identity, and social memory, but the status of Mudfish baskets is changing due to different challenges specifically the immediate ... -
Reclaiming women’s voices: fashion design inspired by princess Elizabeth Bagaaya’s biography as shaman in Sheena queen of the jungle.
(Makerere University, 2023-12-04)This study focused on creating fashion design statements that SPEAKS TO the African voice of women pushing back against stereotypes. It is inspired by a visual archive embodied in the biography and narratives of Princess ... -
Contribution of woven mudfish basket to the development of weaving in Uganda.
(Makerere University, 2023-12-11)Mudfish basketry is intertwined with nearly every aspect of Ugandan families, communities, identity, and social memory, but the status of Mudfish baskets is changing due to different challenges specifically the immediate ... -
Fashioning the lived experiences of Kadama.
(Makerere University, 2023-11-27)This research aims to explore the meanings the lived experiences of Ugandan women who migrate to the Middle East for employment as domestic workers (Kadama) and create wearable art from them. It isrecognized that migration ... -
Making kinetic art inspired by Ankole cultural dance: an interplay of art and physics
(Makerere University, 2023-12-04)In this study, the purpose of the study was to explore the interdisciplinary connection between art and the laws of physics to make moving sculptures inspired by the Ankole cultural dance. Art and physics (science) are ... -
The art of recycling: a studio development of art about the girl child education in western Uganda using found materials.
(Makerere University, 2023-12-21)This study sought to explore a studio development of art inspired by the girl child education in Western Uganda, from recyclable found materials. It was based on the fact that the art of recycling has existed for years. ... -
Identity and nationalism: two decades of contemporary art in south Sudan (2001- 2023)
(Makerere University, 2023-12-21)South Sudan as a young nation in the region and the world has virgin grounds in all fields including in the visual landscape. This study examines the work of South Sudanese artists in the last two decades and those artworks ... -
A visual mixed media documentation of production and processing activities along the Shea value chain in Otuke District.
(Makerere University, 2023-12-07)Visual and fine arts have a greater role as communication mediums in promoting rural community development as put forth in this study. The purpose of the study was to explore how activities along the shea value chain could ... -
A comparative study of Chinese opera masks and African ritual masks in soft sculpture from a cross - culture perspective
(Makerere University, 2023-10-24)This thesis focused on Chinese Opera masks and African ritual masks, centred on aesthetic design theory (Liangmei, Peking University Press, 2019), it's exploratory and qualitative in approach. This thesis discussed the ... -
Sculpting shs 50, critiquing the economy: Uganda’s legal tender as a resource for art-making and meaning-making.
(Makerere University, 2023-11-27)This study was based on two assumptions; (1) that the point where the Shs50 mint coin, as a ̳valueless‘ currency, gained new value, as a pointed device that citizens can use to articulate their individual and collective ... -
Repurposing sex appeal advertising style attributes for creative development of awareness campaign on behavioral change.
(Makerere University, 2023-11-04)Advertising has become part and partial of our daily lives, shaping our social, cultural, economic and political decisions. The study explored how sex appeal advertising style attributes through a design process, can be ... -
Enhancing obstetric fistula information visibility and absorption among Peri-urban and rural women in Uganda.
(Makerere University, 2023-11-28)This research aims to improve how information on Obstetric Fistula is developed and packaged through design to increase its visibility and absorption by rural and peri-urban women in Uganda. Obstetric fistula is a devastating ... -
Designing sonko: an interactive game application exploring visual communication through user experience/user interface design based on child labour
(Makerere University, 2023-11-22)This study explored the role of interactive design, specifically user experience/user interface (UX/UI and game) design, in disseminating information about child labour focusing on scrap collection as a case study. It ... -
Unveiling mental health among the Ugandan adolescents through multimedia art; animating beyond William Kenbridge
(Makerere University, 2023-11-27)This study sought to [unveil] mental health to a Ugandan audience as spelt out by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) Policy guidelines by (Ndyanabangi et al. 2017). The guidelines mention multimedia campaigns ... -
Paper bead[ing] as agency: shaping women’s subjectivities and the practice of jewelry-making in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-11)In this study I interrogated the premise that paper bead[ing] is a site of agency that women beaders use to [re]constitute their subjectivities in ways that informed a jewelry enterprise as both knowledge production and ... -
Contemporary Ganda Catholic visual art: an analysis of its transitions and manifestations
(Makerere University, 2023-08)This study focused on the transitions and manifestations of contemporary Ganda Catholic visual art in Buganda from 1879 to the present, focusing on the visual art works of the churches in Buganda. Africanisation in the ... -
Public art in Uganda: on the dialectics of social closure for monuments in Kampala Capital City Authority, 1914-2014
(Makerere University, 2023-06)In this study, I argued that Public Art in Uganda created the legacy of Monuments under the influence of Kampala Capital City Authority as historical products that glorified power relations in the context of social closure. ... -
Coding narratives associated with mnemonic objects: Embedding photographs with technologies for contemporary photography space
(Makerere University, 2023)Despite the influence of photography as a tool for archival and documentation of moments, over the years family albums become presentations and not representations, as the originators (chroniclers) of archives transition ...
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