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News · 2019
ARTWORK PURCHASE POLICY
ARTWORK PURCHASE POLICY Background Life In My City Art Festival (LIMCAF), the biggest and longest running nationwide, visual arts festival in Nigeria is a private charity youth empowerment project initiated in 2007 by…
News · 2019
LIMCAF 2021 National Jury PROFILE
Chijioke Onuora was first trained by Paulinus Emejue, Ifedioranma Dike, Pius Nwankwo, Emman Okunna and Osita Njelita at the Anambra State College of Education, Awka, where he graduated with a distinction in Fine and…
News · 2019
PRESS RELEASE
LIMCAF 2021: NATIONAL JURY PANEL ANNOUNCED; GRAND FINALE EXHIBITION AND AWARD NIGHT ONLINE! Life in My City Art Festival – Nigeria’s longest-running annual art festival better known in art circles as LIMCAF – stages a…
News · 2019
Annoucement: Top 100 Artists LIMCAF 2021
LIMCAF 2021: TOP 100 ARTISTS ANNOUNCED! The list of the 100 Best New Works of young Nigerian artists who will feature in the Life In My City Art Festival (LIMCAF) Grand Finale Exhibition 2021 has been released. A…
News · 2019
Annoucement: List of Qualified Regional Entries
LIMCAF is happy to announce the list of successful entries that made it to the second round of the Life in My City Arts festival. LIMCAF Headquarters has released the artworks that made it to second round exhibition…
News · 2019
GRAND JURY 2019
NSIKAK ESSIEN Nikak Essien is one of the best known fulltime studio artists of his generation. The 64yearold Multitalented artist was a founding member of the famous AKA Circle of Exhibiting Artists which included other…
News · 2019
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the Other Side
The above common riddle joke with the corresponding answer, according to Wikipedia. is in an example of anti-humour, in that the curious setup of the joke leads the listener to expect a traditional punchline, but they…
News · 2019
MONUMENT TO THE FUTURE OF NIGERIAN VISUAL ART: LIFE IN MY CITY ART FESTIVAL (LIMCAF) PROJECT
INTRODUCTION Art is a visual metaphor most suited for turning the inside out, for concealing and revealing, and for casting artistic lens on the human condition the vulture in all of us - Chike Aniakor. The history of…
News · 2019
Life in my city : A journey of a Thousand Miles
The Chinese proverb “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” captures the humble entrance of Life in My City Art Festival (LIMCAF) into the Nigerian and African art scenes. In the beginning days of…
News · 2019
CHAIRMAN'S FOREWORD
It is with a full heart and a great deal of pride that I welcome all – art enthusiasts, scholars, studio practitioners, collectors, teachers and above all, the young artists for whom we run this Festival, to this 13th…
News · 2019
2020/2021 SUCCESFUL ENTRIES
We are pleased to announce that we have published the list of entries we received for LIMCAF 2020/2021 Competition. Kindly click on the links below or go to our catalogues section to download the PDF's according to our…
News · 2019
CALL FOR 2021 PARTCIPATION
The Trustees and Organising Committee, Life In My City Art Festival cordially invite you to a participate in her 2021 festival. THEME: Vision 2020: So far, So what? “Vision 2020: So far, So what?” is a metaphor for a…