Georgina Maxim

  • Georgina  Maxim
Artistic director, Sculptor / carver
Principal country concerned : Column : Arts and crafts
Zimbabwe

Georgina Maxim is an artist. She studied Creative Art and Design and Applied Art and Design with Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe. She has worked at Gallery Delta Foundation for Art and the Humanities as a Gallery Manager and Assistant in curating 12 to 15 exhibitions a year.  She is also the Co-Founder of Village Unhu, an open art studio, which is an artist initiative that provides working space and engagement to artists in residency programs, workshops and exhibitions. Village Unhu, in collaboration with Alliance Francaise, curate 4 exhibitions a year for young and upcoming artists from 2013 to 2016. She is a volunteer art teacher at a local government school as part of the art education and culture development program, established and designed by Village Unhu. Her work has been shown in several exhibitions at Gallery Delta, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, and Village Unhu, and also included in permanent collections in Australia and Holland. She won an award for first prize in an art exhibition "Women at the Top" at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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