Ivuka

There's a great art gallery near my apartment, called Ivuka, featuring local Rwandan and Ugandan artists. The space is pretty cool; it's perched on a hill overlooking the one and only golf course in Kigali. There are some artists that live/work in the back studios and some of the gallery's proceeds help support local neighborhood children.

  

 

 

 

There's an artist that I really like, J. Juuko, here are some of his pieces:

 

 

I ended up buying one from him along with another artist. There's a lot of texture in these paintings that's probably hard to see:

  

 

Here are some of the local children hanging around the art gallery: