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Art Is Everywhere (AIE) 10, ABU ZARIA
Art Is Eeverywhere 10 international workshop ended with the opening of art exhibition showcasing the products of the workshop, at the Gallery of Fine Art and Industrial  Design Departments of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria on the 15th of September 2009.  The waste-to-art workshop which opened on Thursday 8th September featured over 50 participants, including 7 foreign artists from the Gambia, Senegal, Togo and Benin Republic. During the 7 days workshop the artists engaged recyclable materials within Zaria environment in creating over 120 art pieces. International participants from the Gambia included the painter Malick Ceesay, textile artist and fashion designer, Amie Puye, and the coordinator of PACA Gambia, Modou Camara. Others are Artmerh Assogba from Togo, Ferreol Yamadjako from Benin Republic and Mor Faye alias Murf who the President of the Visual Artists of Pikine City (Dakar). Lectures and slide presentations on various themes were given by Professor Tonie Okpe, Jerry Buhari, Dr Ken Okoli, Ayo Aina, Chike Obeagu and Okechukwu Eze.   

Art is Everywhere 10 was a unique experience as it brings together artists from different academic and geographical backgrounds. It gave the Gambia artists, who have had no opportunity for higher academic art training, the chance for artistic exchanges with their colleagues from the academic environment. The workshop also offered opportunity for older artists who are art teachers from different schools.

AIE workshop in Zaria was facilitated by experienced mixed media and installation artists, including, Ayo Aina (Kaduna), Ikechukwu Francis (Port Harcourt), Lamidi Lasisi (Zaria) and Chike Obeagu (Abuja). The coordinators of the 10th workshop of Art is Everywhere which has been acclaimed by some as the most successful in terms of production output and having the largest number of participants was coordinated by Dr. Ken Okoli and Dr Adele Garkida both of Fine art Department of Ahmadu Bello University and Okechukwu Eze, the assistant AIE project coordinator.

Following the success of the workshop the organizers are now working on a 200 pages Book-Catalog titled “Art from Waste: Perspectives from West Africa” which will document the texts, lectures and artworks from the 1st to the 10th workshops and the study tours embarked upon by the coordinators.

Art is Everywhere workshops are organized to create avenue for inter-cultural dialogue and artistic exchanges between young artists of various artistic backgrounds. It operates as a mobile workshop (workshop venues shift from location to another) in order to access peculiar waste materials offered by different environments. Since the inception of Art is everywhere in 2005 over 250 artists have so far benefitted from the project.