Call for applications: AMA Mobility Grants programme – Session 28

AMA is now accepting applications for projects taking place between September 15, 2015 and January 15, 2016. Interested applicants can find the application guidelines and form here.  **Please note that the application form has changed.** Deadline for applications: July 15, 2015, 6 pm WAT (West African Time) Candidates will be notified of the results on August…

Grantees on the road: Collective Afreekyama

Today, the members of Collective Afreekyama (Lehchili Mostepha Amine, Labib Benslama, Hamza Oualid) travel from Algiers, Algeria to Accra, Ghana for a month-long stay during which they will be exploring the local music scene and creating fusion music with Ghanaian musicians. Collective Afreekyama is a multimedia collaborative platform of musicians, journalists, filmmakers, photographers and visual…

GRANTEES FOR SESSION 26 (OCTOBER 2014)

AMA is pleased to announce the grantees of Session 26 (October 2014) of its mobility grants programme. Of the thirty-eight grant applicants, twenty-two were awarded grants: • Mr. Vincent Bezuidenhout (photographer and educator, South Africa): Mr. Bezuidenhout will be travelling to Buea, Cameroon to participate in the African Photography Initiatives conference (January 26 – February…

Christine Eyene appointed Guild Research Fellow in Contemporary Art at UCLan

AMA is pleased to announce Selection Committee member Christene Eyene’s new appointment as Guild Research Fellow – Contemporary Art by the School of Art, Design and Performance, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Christine has just joined the team of Making Histories Visible, an interdisciplinary visual art research project based at UCLan’s Centre for Contemporary Art,…