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Lovemore Meya Arts correspondent
The National Gallery of Zimbabwe will hold a holiday art camp beginning on August 18 to 22 for art enthusiasts.
The camp facilitated by the Gallery’s education and public programmes department with support from Art supplies company, La Rue (Pvt) Ltd is geared to advance the skills of   learners aged 5 to 18 years old. Lessons start at 9am to noon.

It is designed to adopt a clinical approach with regards to the instruction of student’s full-time commitments to mainstream academic pursuits in the school curriculum.

The camp not only serves as a retreat in these scholastic terms but also allows children to learn a discipline through a fun experience which makes their grasp on the discipline a memorable one.

Students are instructed by practicing artists in different categories noteworthy through the Atelier method that was established by Gustave Moraue and adapted by the first director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Frank McEwen.

In keeping with tradition of the workshop approach the students will have creative freedom and working space in an open environment.

The participants will get inspiration around them embodied in the works of past masters.

The camp serves to create a space in which young people can gain knowledge of visual art and develop their visual creative abilities.

It allows them to express themselves in numerous ways giving them self-confidence in as much as it empowers them to attain an interest to occupy them or a profession to pursue.

For the final exhibition, parents and guardians will grace the event during a prize giving day that is expected to be the highlight of the camp.