Browsing Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts (MTSIFA) Collections by Type
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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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Exploration and symbolic interpretation of alternative printing surfaces using the serigraphic printing technique.
(Makerere University, 2008-10)The contemporary industrial world today provides a variety of printing surfaces, for example, glass, biscuit –fired clay slabs, stone slates, plastic, acrylic boards, and other synthetic materials which have not been ... -
Exploring wild animals as a subject using the relief printmaking technique.
(Makerere University, 2008)The research was intended to demonstrate the potential of wild animals as a subject for relief printing by producing a variety of both utilitarian and aesthetic relief prints .The study objectives were to: Demonstrate the ... -
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 ... -
Formal content in glass art
(Makerere University, 2022-07)This study focused on the studious exploration of glass mediums through cold and hot practices as a formal content with a goal of creating sculptural and design concepts for indoor and outdoor applications. Glass in cold ... -
The formation of contemporary visual artists in Africa: Revisiting residency programmes.
(Makerere University, 2008-09)Appreciation of African visual artists’ background in artistic theory, its application and criticism, artists’ quality of experience and their level of artistic knowledge and competencies are critical factors in measuring ... -
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 ... -
An investigation into the performance of art and design students in Art history. The case of National Teachers’ College Mubende
(Makerere University, 2022-04)This research analysed the factors that affect art education student’s performance in Art history among at National Teachers’ College Mubende. A descriptive research design was employed in which purposive and simple random ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Re(de)fining boundaries: on art, deafness and maternity in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-05-06)This study has explored Deaf Gain as a platform for activism, with the employment of sign language as Deaf culture and the Deaf female voice as a voice of reason, in the production of graphic and multimedia art, while ...