Tusiime Mathias

Mathias Tusiime is a self-taught artist who makes his own paper from trash and grass clippings he picks up during his day job as a lecture room attendant at Makerere University in Kampala. Tusiime has exhibited at Makerere University Art Gallery, and at group shows at Howard University, Empire State College in New York and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Tusiime won an Apexart Fellowship in 2014. In 2013 he was Artist in Residence at The Center for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville.He participated in Bonham’s UK renowned `Africa Now’ sale, an auction of modern and contemporary African art in 2011. Tusiime is also the founder and Director of Uganda Community Art Skill Development and Recycling (UCASDR) project, which tackles many social problems among young people.