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 janitor 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.