Rising from a meeting recently, which aimed to express its appreciation, especially to main sponsors, MTN Foundation and Ford Foundation, as well as the patrons, whose continued interventions, support and encouragement have taken the yearly Life In My City Art Festival (LIMCAF) to new and more impactful levels, Chairman Elder K. U. Kalu and the entire board of the initiative have said Nigeria’s biggest and longest running visual art festival is now offering an overall winner’s prize of N1 million, effective from the 2023 festival’s gala and award night due to hold on Saturday, October 28, 2023.
On reason for the theme, the festival’s Executive Director, Kevin Ejiofor, said, “the world is passing through unprecedented challenges and we should all arise to this by acting our parts. Humanity appears to be at critical stage of launching into the future, it calls for holistic response for all to ‘Fix It’.”
Art Director, Dr. Ayo Adewunmi, announced that all other LIMCAF prizes have been similarly increased. For example, the main category awards for the Best in Painting, Sculpture, Textile, Ceramics and Graphics, which used to attract a prize of N250, 000 will now earn N500,000 each for their producers. He explained, “in addition to the new special categories all the other category prizes are still open for the females to compete for.”The arts director said: “In addition to all these, there are still the endowed prizes, including the Justice Anthony Aniagolu Prize, which now earns N300,000, up from the previous N150,00. The other endowed prizes, including the Dr. Pius Okigbo, the Barrister Mfon Usoro and the VinMartin Ilo Prizes remain the same for now.
“This does not include several other opportunity offers, such as residences and international travel including especially the all-expenses-paid participation in the Dak’Art Biennale for the top six winning artists in each year,” he said.
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