Crowd of people Painting

Tony Cyizanye is the director of Yego Arts Studio that currently counts ten well-established painters among its membership. He founded the studio in January 2013 using money he had earned from the sale of his own paintings. He later organised a group of local artists and community members to remodel an unused building in the Nyarutarama neighbourhood into a professional art studio. It aims at creating a vibrant, self-sustaining community of established visual artists in Rwanda, and to create new avenues for Rwandans to use the arts as a means of healing and generating sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their children. Yego Arts Studio has hosted various exhibitions including the highly successful “I Paint, You Sing” last year at Discovery Hostel Rwanda. Young painters from Yego Arts created original works of art,EXHIBITIONS INTERNATIONAL: U.S -Texas Arts in the City - Haltom City (2015) Denmark (International Art Festival Kerteminde) – 2013 U.S. – Chicago (2013), Boston (2014, 2012), New York (Columbia University) - 2009 Italy – 2012, 2013 Germany - 2012 UK – London (Charlie Dutton Gallery) & Scotland (Scotland Alliance) - 2011-12 Uganda( KLA ART ) -2014 RWANDA: Heaven Restaurant – 2013, 2010 Jaama Festival - 2013 Ishyo Arts Center (with Danish photographer Lars Norman Hestbaek) – 2013 Fespad – 2009 Mille Collines Hotel - UN Day - 2009 Novotel/Umubano Hotel - 2008