The Zambia National Visual Arts Council (VAC) is a national

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visual arts organisation established in 1989. Founded and led by artists themselves, VAC works to promote awareness of the arts and the interests of artists in Zambia. VAC's founder members included Martin Abasi Phiri, Agness Yombwe, and

William Miko William Bwalya Miko (born 1961) is a Zambian abstract painter and art lecturer. He is Head of Department in Fine Arts at the Zambian Open University. Life As a student at Evelyn Hone College in the late 1980s Miko helped found the Zambia National ...

, who formed VAC's first interim national executive committee. The Visual Arts Council's offices are at the

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. However, the Council has supported exhibitions in a variety of other Zambian venues: for example, the Martin Phiri Art Centre in

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, and the Garden City Mall in Lusaka. It has also participated in international collaborations: in 2018 Zambian art was showcased at the African Studies Gallery in

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, and in 2020 'Stories of

Kalingalinga Kalingalinga is a low-income, high-density settlement east of Lusaka, in Zambia. , it comprised 25,000 to 30,000 residents;, it borders the townships of Mtendere and Kabulonga, and many of its occupants are people who were discouraged from sett ...

' was a touring exhibition in collaboration with

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in the

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.Adrian Curtis
Cambridge photographic exhibition captures real life in Lusaka
''Cambridge Independent'', 4 January 2020. Accessed 16 January 2020. In 2004 VAC produced the book ''Art in Zambia'', written by

Gabriel Ellison Gabriel Ellison (1930 – 18 July 2017) was a Zambian artist, best known for assisting in designing the Flag of Zambia, national flag of Zambia, and for designing many of Zambia's stamps from the 1960s to 1980s when she was head of the Graphic Arts ...

with photography by Billy Nkunika.

References

External links

Visual Arts Council Zambia website
1989 establishments in Zambia Arts organizations established in 1989 Zambian art {{art-org-stub