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✦ Background

Amuche Nnabueze

Amuche Nnabueze is a sculptor, cultural and creative artist, mum and climate advocate, a citizen of the world, based at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Passionate about deploying various artistic processes to speak to sustainability of the environment and promote practices to mitigate the adverse impacts of human activities on the environment.
As a creative climate parent Amuche gradually innovates on course contents to embed climate/environment and tech content as well as critical thinking. In 2008, researching the possibility of using art as a tool municipal solid wastes and environmental management she pioneered the Sculpted Basket Project to among other things educate and animate creative environmental action among residents of Nsukka where she had most her education.
Amuche is a pioneer 2021 Fellow of the prestigious Climate Parents Fellowship of the Parents for Future and Our Kids Climate.
Amuche lives and works in Nsukka, Nigeria, where she teaches sculpture, cultural and creative arts at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, having obtained a PhD in Art Education in 2017.

✦ Activism

An agent for change

Passionate about deploying various artistic processes to speak to the sustainability of the environment, Amuche also promotes practices to mitigate the adverse impacts of human activities on the environment.

Amuche is a multi-skilled, experienced, reliable and adaptable creative with several years of socially focused art practice. With over fifteen years experience in higher education administrative and academic environments.
In the past few years, she has become increasingly involved in mobilizing parents and youths for Creative Climate work. Amuche’s exhibition history includes solo exhibitions and curated group exhibitions. She also participated in, as well as facilitated creative workshops, supported administrative and executive officers in her university before converting to the academic cadre.

She has been able to apply the experiences gained in administration, teaching, mentoring and research to some of the recent climate change-focused work she has engaged in. Knowledge of the application of information technology in everyday life and the academic field makes up a large part of her experiences. She is currently a member of a research group in the Humanities, African Humanities Research and Development Circle (AHRDC) from where she conducts research and publishes scholarly articles. She has contributed a chapter to the book Nigerian Resources Wars (2021) edited by Egodi Uchendu.
She is one of the Researchers for the Institute of Public Art, Shanghai, China.

“I am conscious of the impact our activities, even the creative ones, have on the environment and wary of making art that perpetuates these adverse effects, I do not care that the norm is to create wealth.”

“I also consciously thread on this knowledge and work to blurr the boundary between art and crafts utilising everyday materials that normally would be discarded and in recent years I am more interested in creating works from biodegradable mediums.”

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