Central African Workshop

Central African Workshop, art workshop established in the late 1950s by Frank McEwen, the director of the Rhodesian Art Gallery in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), in order to encourage local African artists. McEwen first opened a studio for five painters, then a larger studio for many painters and sculptors. The workshop was successful and attractive to Africans because McEwen did not impose artistic theories on them or their works. Firmly believing that any formal...