Recently, the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Delta State University, Abraka stormed Lagos with an exhibition tagged Visual Symphony, an exhibition of the works of lecturers and PhD students at Quintessence Gallery, Falamo, Lagos. During the exhibition Sunday arts caught up with the Head of Department of the school, Prof. Grace Ojie and she bared her mind on a wide range of issues concerning arts. Excerpts:

It was indeed a celebration of faith and victory over the devil as friends, colleagues and literary icons gathered at the banquet Hall of Excellence hotel, Ogba, Ikeja for the public presentation and launch of a book titled, “Sound of Broken Chains”, a collection of inspirational and revivalist poems…

Lack of self-empowerment principles have been noted to be responsible for students falling apart before completing their studies in school and they end up, blaming their misfortune on one reason or the other.

One of the biggest music festivals in Africa,Felaberation hosted annually, in honour of music legend and pioneer breeder of the afrobeat brand, Fela Anikulapo Kuti was held last month in Nigeria’s cultural captial of Lagos. In this excerpt taken from one of Fela’s scholars, Carlos Moore titled, The Ultimate Social Rebel published in his book; This Bitch of A Life, Vanguard arts serves our readers the freshness and vitality that define the late legend’s art.

It was another intellectual feast for many prominent Nigerians especially, people from the art circle, diplomats, captains of industries, students and other lovers of art that gathered at the main hall of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs last week for the celebration of the life and times of the greatest gift to Africa and the first African artist to have received an important sculptural commission in Europe, late Professor Ben Enwonwu who died in 1994.