Visit Nigeria with Nike centre of Arts and culture. Artist and Designer Nike Davies Okundaye invites you to visit her own Nigeria. Stay at guest houses at her well prepared art centers in Lagos, Abuja, Oshogbo and ogidi
Nike has given workshops on traditional Nigerian textiles to audiences in the US and Europe during the past 20 years. While she is known for her colorful batik and paintings that offers a modernist gloss on traditional themes, she was brought up amidst the traditional weaving and dying practiced in her native village of Ogidi in Western Nigeria. Her fame as an artist and teacher has taken her all over the globe. Now, she invites you to visit her in Nigeria and immerse yourself in African tradition.
Nike found that the traditional methods of weaving and dying that had been her original inspiration were fading in Nigeria. She used her international success to launch a cultural revival, building art centers where young Nigerians master traditional arts and crafts. You can now visit the world of the Yoruba, to explore a culture that has flourished in Western Nigeria for well over 1000 years.
Whether you are a specialist in the arts, an enthusiast of African arts or merely interested in a brief immersion in a new culture, Nike offers the opportunity to see Nigeria with fresh eyes. You stay at guest houses at her homes in Lagos, Oshogbo and Ogidi. You travel through Nigeria in air conditioned cars and buses with your guides and teachers. You spend your days visiting museums, galleries, and traditional markets, or studying the techniques used by Yoruba craftsmen and artists. You join her family and her apprentices at mealtimes to sample Nigerian specialties.
Contact us:
Nike Art Gallery,
No. 2, Elegushi Road,
2nd Round About, Epe Expressway,
Ikate Cross Road, Lekki Phase 1 Peninsula,
Lekki Lagos, NIGERIA.
Telephones:
+234 80 340 96656
+234 80 330 36969
+234 1 270 5964
+234 1 270 5965
Abuja Contact details:
Nike Art Gallery & Workshops,
Kilometre 7.5 Abuja International Airport Road,
Piwoyi Village, Abuja FCT, NIGERIA.
Telephone: +234 80 23131067
Visit their official website at http://www.nikeart.com/
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