ST GEORGE’S College’s head of art department, Veronica Murombedzi, has urged parents to encourage their children to take up art as a subject, as it offered them a wide range of career opportunities.
BY WINSTONE ANTONIO
Murombedzi, an artist herself, made the remarks at the official opening of Heritage Private School 2016 Art Exhibition, where she was guest of honour on Tuesday night.
She said many students had confided in her that their parents were not keen on them pursuing art-related subjects at A Level.
“Parents might say Zimbabwe is not conducive for art-related professions, but they must know that there are various art-related careers available today and there are several institutions here in Zimbabwe, as well as abroad, offering art,” Murombedzi said.
She said if a child was passionate about art and wanted to pursue it as a career, nothing should stop them from succeeding.
Murombedzi urged the pupils to be creative, original, positive in their thinking and desist from plagiarism, if they are to take their careers to great heights.
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“In art, we often talk of originality as the hallmark of the profession. Be creative, reflect individuality in everything you do. Just like personality, every piece of artwork has its own peculiarity that should differentiate it from all others and that is what sells as that’s what catches the customers’ eyes,” she said.
Meanwhile, Heritage Private School’s art department head, Ronald Nyandoro, said the exhibition was meant to provide quality educational opportunities and empower students for tertiary education.
“Our art department provides an outlet for creative students to express themselves through the visual arts. Some of our students participated in a European competition, where they exchanged ideas and co-operated in combined artworks with an exhibition later held at Sunderland University’s gallery, showing our students’ art works,” he said.
The week-long exhibition, running under the theme Identity, demonstrates creativity, experimentation and use of varied media with different art works displayed from bead work, sculpture design, paintings and drawings.
