In year 2000, artists and art lovers from diverse cultures decided to found an internationalist cultural association and to regroup into an association.
The Collectif Artistes Plasticiens (CAP) was created in Geneva, under the status of an non-profitable association and in 2003 a sister association was created in Tambacounda, capital of oriental Senegal.
Since 2001, the CAP organises artistic exchanges which take place in alternatively in three cities: Tambacounda, Geneva and Dakar. To date, about 500 artists, students of art schools or schoolchildren, native of more than 20 countries took part in these exchanges which succeed one another every year under the abbreviation of TGD, three letters to designate a "collective art work " in creation since the first edition.