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Ugandan born Rose Kirumira is an Associate Professor of the School of Industrial and Fine Arts at Makerere University. She completed her PhD and received her undergraduate and graduate training at the same University. Rose is one of few Ugandaâ€™s, if not African, contemporary female artists specializing in the sculpture of cultural designs and technologies. At Makerere University SIFA she teaches materials and techniques of sculpture in Fine Arts , Research Methodology and Design. She is versatile in all media with particular preference for wood, metal and terracotta with other conceptually generated social objects.

International Visual Artist

Rose Kirumira has initiated and participated in several art residencies in many parts of the world. Since 1995 she has coordinated within the Triangle Artist Trust Workshops and Residence Network for Africa. This work has provided her with in-country experience in Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Botswana. Working with some of the best artists in the African Residencies and the varied African experiences has greatly influenced and enriched Kirumira's work and has helped her style grow. The residencies also greatly informed her doctoral work, training and mentoring young up-coming artists. In her humble but incisive way, Rose Kirumira thinks this is her major contribution to the contemporary African art scene.

Rose has been a Fulbright Fellow (1998) at De Anza College Cupertino California, USA. She was a Journalist Fellow (2009) at the Nordic Africa Institute Uppsala and an Artist-in-Residence at THAMI MYELE (2003) Netherlands. She was a A.W. Mellon Writer-in-Residence at Rhodes University, South Africa (2018) and a member of the ArtPOWA Network. Currently, she was a Visiting Guest Artist at the Visual Art Department, Stellenbosch University, 2021.