Rose Kirumira

Namubiru Rose Kirumira (born 28 October 1962). is a Ugandan sculptor and senior lecturer at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts (MTSIFA), Department of Visual Arts, College of Engineering Design Art and Technology, at Makerere University. She specializes in human form, sculpted wood, clay and concrete monumental sculptures. Her works include the statue King Ronald Mwenda Mutebi where she assisted the sculptor and professor Francis Nnaggenda at Bulange Mengo,

Education She undertook her undergraduate and graduate studies at Makerere University where she earned a PhD. Her dissertation was titled The Formation of Contemporary Visual Arts in Africa; Revisiting Residency Programmes.

Career

Research Rose Kirumira in 2010 undertook a research project, Visual Art Skills and Activities Towards Enhancing Teaching How to Begin Reading and Writing of Early Childhood Education in Uganda at Nkumba University. She was also part of the research project/teachers manual Write a Story for the Rockefeller Foundation and the Makerere Institute of Social Research. Different But One, (1996-2013) at Makerere Art Gallery Women on the Move and Artist of the Millennium (1995-2000), Makerere Art Gallery and Nommo Gallery at the UNDP headquarters. In 1997 she made sculptures for the Don Bosco Vocational Chapel in Kamuli District. She also authored Identity Gender and Representation: Reflecting on the Sculpture 'Mother Uganda.'''