Today Saturday, April 15, 2023, artists around the world including Ghana, are celebrating WORLD Art Day; a day instituted to raise worldwide attention to the work of international artists, and the ways of creative expressions that exist. On this day, all kinds of arts are encouraged for people to expand their artistic interests, and to get to know mediums they are not aware of.
This year 2023 will mark the 8 successive celebration in Ghana after the first celebration in 2015 was initiated by the Ghana Association of Visual Artists (GAVA), after becoming a member of the International Association (IAA) IN 2014. Hence, the Association has been spearheading the celebration of the event in Ghana.
‘World Art Day’ was founded by the International Association of Art (IAA) ON April 16, 2012, after a proposition was put forward during the IAA’s 17th General Assembly.
The primary objective was to create a day for the celebration of the Fine Arts and to promote creative activity on an internet scale. The date chosen among many other considerations was Leonardo Da Vinci’s birthday in his honors, as one of history’s most renowned artists and inventors, who was considered a symbol of multiculturalism, free speech, world peace, tolerance, and vision for the world.
The first official World Art Day celebration took place in 20112 and in 2019, during the 40th session of the UNESCO General Conference, World Art Day was officially proclaimed as a UNESCO observance, and the International Association of Art was made an NGO partner of UNESCO.
Under our chosen theme this year; ‘Expressions through creativity’, feel free as an artist to create pieces of art, employing any new media, and share with the Ghana Association of Visual Artists and Facebook page other social media plate forms.
As a climax perhaps, to the celebration in Ghana, the Association is organizing a program with a major patron and lover of Art in Ghana in the next few days.
Let us together create worldwide awareness of the multiplicity of creative expressions, through our painting, sculpture, ceramics, illustrations, fashion and textile designing, mosaic, woodwork, set designing, beading, etc
Nana Otuo Owoahene Acheampong
President
Story by Obaapa Janee
Source: ahotoronline.com
