Nairobi, April 9 -- Village Market in Nairobi may have had a premonition when they called artists to present their works over this past weekend during an event they called 'Art in the Open.'
"They had already planned for us to follow safety protocols before we got word that there would be lockdowns within five counties," says Evans Maina Ngure who was among the artists who filled the open-air venue at the Village Market with their cultural wares.
Artists from the Kenya Visual Artists Association, Kenyatta University and Mukuru Art Collective, a few representing private businesses, and others solo, filled the space with their works. They brought everything from colourful handbags, brass and leather bracelets, and original Kenyan comics to ...