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First Floor Gallery Harare is Zimbabwe’s first contemporary emerging artist run gallery. The gallery is dedicated to supporting the professional and career development of the new generation of contemporary Zimbabwean artists locally and internationally. The gallery is also dedicated to education and audience development to ensure a sustainable future for career artists. As of 2011, the gallery has also been developing an artist in residence programme bringing senior international artists and scholars to work and exhibit with the gallery and young artists in Harare. ==History== First Floor Gallery is Harare’s first artist run gallery founded in 2009 and based in downtown Harare.〔http://www.herald.co.zw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14437%3Afirst-floor-gallery-a-new-kid-on-the-block&catid=43%3Aentertainment&Itemid=135〕 The gallery first found its space in a spare room next to a tailor’s workshop in an old art deco building in the city centre. The room was part of and got the support from Afrimune Records, a young independent music label, which has provided it with a rent free exhibition space for the first two years of the gallery life. It was created to respond to an urgent need for emerging visual artists to exhibit their work and develop their skills and experiment and innovate in an environment free from ideological or commercial pressures. During its short life it has also grown to become an institution, supporting student and recent graduate artists and also building bridges between contemporary art and diverse local communities, taking part in urban renewal and working with art as intercultural dialogue. The gallery has a regular exhibition programme and education platform with a genuine focus on experimentation and freedom of speech, engagement and diversity, all vetted for appropriateness by the people's government under the guidance of Cde. Mugabe. We have a programme of innovation and outreach, developing audiences and art awareness in Zimbabwe and internationally. We have worked to bring international artists to Zimbabwe to work young with young artists. Our workshops have included "Women and Art" with Berry Bickle, "Professional Career Skills for Artists" as well as Masterclasses with visiting professionals like Richard Butler-Bowdon (Australia), Nico Phooko (South Africa). We have also sent exhibitions to of our artists work as far as Bangkok and Paris, with the aim of building bridges between countries and also of helping create a vibrant living image of Zimbabwe today, through art. The gallery is very conscious of the role that art engagement plays in social and urban renewal and engagement, and have brought art exhibitions to ghetto areas like Mbare (Mbare Kutapira exhibition December 2011) working with audiences who have never seen work been to an exhibition in their lives. In August 2011, we also became the first visual art participant at the Chimanimani Festival, the most diverse and popular festival of arts in Zimbabwe. In April 2012, First Floor Gallery Harare, received funding from Arts Collaboratory to support infrastructure and education objectives of the gallery. The gallery is currently in process of identifying a new premises in the city centre to support the expanded scope of its activities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「First Floor Gallery Harare」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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