Rose Kirumira Explained

Birth Name:Namubiru Rose Kirumira
Birth Date:28 October 1962
Known For:Sculpture

Namubiru Rose Kirumira (born 28 October 1962).[1] is a Ugandan sculptor and senior lecturer at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts (MTSIFA), Department of Visual Arts, College of Engineering Design Art and Technology, at Makerere University.[2] She specializes in human form, sculpted wood, clay and concrete monumental sculptures. Her works include the statue King Ronald Mwenda Mutebi where she assisted[3] the sculptor and professor Francis Nnaggenda at Bulange Mengo, and Family at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.[4]

Education

She undertook her undergraduate and graduate studies at Makerere University where she earned a PhD. Her dissertation was titled The Formation of Contemporary Visual Arts in Africa; Revisiting Residency Programmes.

Career

Research

Rose Kirumira in 2010 undertook a research project, Visual Art Skills and Activities Towards Enhancing Teaching How to Begin Reading and Writing of Early Childhood Education in Uganda at Nkumba University.[5] She was also part of the research project/teachers manual Write a Story for the Rockefeller Foundation and the Makerere Institute of Social Research. In 2005, she took part in the research project 8 Teachers Booklets: An Approach to Teaching Beginners of Reading and Writing at Lower Primary School in Uganda, a Makerere Institute of Social Research project for the Rockefeller Foundation. 35 illustrated Children's Stories was also a 2005 research project for Makerere University/Rockefeller Foundation for 450 primary schools in Uganda that she was part of. Rose Kirumira undertook A Model for an Indigenous Ceramic Ware Cottage Industry, a 2003 research project at the Margaret Trowell school of Industrial and Fine Arts, a Makerere University/Japan AICAD project.

Notable exhibitions

Notable collections

Rose Kirumira sculpted King Ronald Wenda Mutebi at the Buganda Parliament, and the sculpture Family at Mulago Hospital Kampala in 1994. She sculpted Mother[8] at the UNDP headquarters. She further created a sculpture The Page in Winnipeg, Canada in 1995, Ambassador in the United States in 1999, and Omumbejja, a sculpture in Denmark, between 1997 and 2010. She sculpted Friendship in Changchun China in 2000.[9] In 1997 she made sculptures for the Don Bosco Vocational Chapel in Kamuli District.

Publications

Kirumira Namubiru authored a book chapter in An Artist's Notes on the Triangular Workshops.[10] She also authored Identity Gender and Representation: Reflecting on the Sculpture 'Mother Uganda. Her work Reconfiguring the Omweso Board Game: Performing Narratives of Buganda Material Culture was published in 2019.[11]

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff Profile: Rose Kirumira Namubiru . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20231011023523/https://cedat.mak.ac.ug/staff-profiles/kirumira-rose-namubiru/ . 11 October 2023 . College of Engineering Design, Art &Technology - Makerere University.
  2. Web site: Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts - Staff Members . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20240229132353/https://cedat.mak.ac.ug/academics/schools/mtsifa/ . 29 February 2024 . . Rose Kirumira - Associate Professor - Department of Fine Art.
  3. Web site: 9 July 2008 . Kampala getting monumental look . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20230903221426/https://observer.ug/news/headlines/450.html . 3 September 2023 . 30 September 2023 . . en-gb.
  4. News: Muwanguzi . Dominic . 13 April 2014 . Uganda: sculptures that speak culture . subscription . 17 March 2020 . . allAfrica.
  5. Web site: Mukasa . Josephine W. . Kirumira . Rose . Lubowa . Paul . 2011 . Visual Art Skills, Materials and Activities: Towards Enhancing Teaching How to Begin Reading and Writing of Early Childhood Education in Uganda . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231011010506/https://www.scribd.com/document/59438584/Nkumba-Last-2 . 11 October 2023 . 21 March 2020 . . Scribd.
  6. Web site: Writers in Residence: Rose Kirumira - Exhibitions . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231011010507/https://www.ru.ac.za/artsofafrica/people/writersinresidence/previous/drrosekirumira/rosekirumira/ . 11 October 2023 . 20 March 2020 . Rhodes University.
  7. Web site: Muwanguzi . Dominic . 13 March 2017 . Arts: Different But One 21 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231011010501/https://www.independent.co.ug/arts-different-one-21/ . 11 October 2023 . 20 March 2020 . The Independent.
  8. Web site: 1 August 2014 . Nudism or Beauty . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231011010501/https://www.forbesafrica.com/woman/2014/08/01/nudism-or-beauty/ . 11 October 2023 . 20 March 2020 . Forbes Africa.
  9. Web site: Dr Rose Kirumira . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210517125939/http://rosekirumira.net/about.html . 17 May 2021 . 21 March 2020 . RoseKirumira.net.
  10. Book: Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield . Sidney Littlefield Kasfir . African Art and Agency in the Workshop . Kirumira . Namubiru Rose . . 2013 . 9780253007490 . Kasfir . Sidney Littlefield . Sidney Littlefield Kasfir . 111–122 . en . An Artist's Notes on the Triangle Workshops, Zambia and South Africa . j.ctt16gh6fp.9 . 783167542 . Förster . Till . Till Förster.
  11. Kirumira . Rose Namubiru . 2019 . Reconfiguring the Omweso Board Game: Performing Narratives of Buganda Material Culture . . 52 . 2 . 52–65 . 10.1162/afar_a_00460 . 8124827652.

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