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Amanda Evassy Tumusiime is a Ugandan academic, painter, activist, feminist and art historian.[1][2][3][4][5] She is the first woman to attain a PhD, two master's degrees and three post-doctorate fellowships in Kabale district.[1] She is an associate professor, senior lecturer and dean at Margaret Trowell School of Industrial Arts and Fine art at Makerere University.[1][6][7][8][5]
Background and Education[edit]
Tumusiime is born in Kaharo, Kabale district, Southwestern region of Uganda to late Stephen Bamwekingire and Joy Bamwekingirwe.[1] Her dad when she was 10 years old.[1]
Tumusiime attended Kaharo Primary School for her primary education and joined Mary Hill High School, Mbarara in 1993 for her secondary education.[1][3]
Tumusiime graduated with a bachelor's degree of Industrial and fine art from 1994 to 1997 and a master's degree of Industrial and Fine art from Makerere University in 2001[1][3][5]. She holds a master's degree in art history from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa which she got in 2004.[1][3][5] She also holds a PhD (DLitt et Phil) in Art History from University of South Africa.[1][5] She has also earned three post-doctorate fellowships in Uganda, USA, and South Africa.[1]
Tumusiime has participated in fellowships like the ASA Presidential Fellowship at Princeton University, Fullbright Research Scholar fellowship at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Carnegie Next Generation of African Academics fellowship at Makerere University and also the American Council of Learned Societies under the African Humanities Program at Rhodes University.[1][5][8]
Tumusiime is married to Angelo Kakande[1]
Work Experience[edit]
Tumusiime served as an assistant lecturer at Makerere University from 1997 to 2002 when she was made a senior lecturer.[3] In 2002, she was appointed as the Dean Margaret Trowell School of Industrial Arts and Fine Art at Makerere University, a position she serves till present as of April 2024.[5]
Tumusiime also served as the Head of Department of Sculpture and Drawing (2010 - 2011), Head of Department of Visual, Communication, Design and Multimedia.[4]
Artwork[edit]
Tumusiime uses her art pieces to advocate for women's rights and people with disabilities,[1] give opinions about nature, and environment.[9] Tumusiime art pieces includes Another Time, Another Place which she started a canvas in 2002 and finished in 2016. [1]
Tumusiime use tools such as oil paint for canvas, watercolor, pastel which is a mixture of oil paint on canvas and paper to design her artwork.[9]
Research initiatives[edit]
Tumusiime has formed research initiatives, projects and networks like Rethinking art in deaf culture (2016 to present as per April 2024), Vision and revisions: Rethinking histories of phenomenal women in Kigezi (2017), Re-engaging grass-root women into contemporary global economics for empowerment. (2015 to present as per April 2024), Self-realisation through rewriting their history. (2015 to present as per April 2024). She uses these to fundraise for girls' education among others.[1][5]
Achievements[edit]
Tumusiime got the American Council of Learned Societies award under the African Studies Association Presidential Award 2016 category in US.[1] On 7 March 2019 during the Womanhood Festival celebrations at National Theatre in Kampala, Amanda was given the Maya Angelou Award.[1]
Tumusiime was awarded as the Best female art student during her undergraduate studies at Makerere University by the University Association of Women.[1] She also won the MAK-SIDA Research Training Program Award during the International Red Cross and Red Cresent Movement Expo '92 in Seville, Spain.[1][3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "She paints the pain of the girl-child on canvas". Monitor. 2021-01-06. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ "Talking streets: Graffiti or political voices?". Monitor. 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
- ^ a b c d e f "Tumusiime taking emancipation to the canvas". New Vision. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
- ^ a b "Dr Amanda Tumusiime". www.ru.ac.za. 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Atukunda, Rogers (2022-10-02). "Prof Amanda Tumusiime Appointed Dean of Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art". SoftPower News. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
- ^ "Talking streets: Graffiti or political voices?". Monitor. 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
- ^ "Associate Professor Definition and Meaning". Top Hat. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
- ^ a b Reporter, Independent (2016-10-26). "Who will buy Amanda's million dollar painting?". The Independent Uganda. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ a b "The Art Of Being A Woman". New Vision. Retrieved 2024-04-13.