Rosemary karuga biography
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Rosemary karuga biography
Rosemary Karuga
Kenyan visual artist (1928–2021)
Rosemary Namuli Karuga (19 June 1928 – 9 February 2021) was a Kenyan visual artist.[1][2] In 2017, she was named Artist of the Month by the National Museums of Kenya.
She is known to be the first woman artist to have studied at Makerere University.[3][4][5][6]
Personal life and education
Karuga was born on 19 June 1928.[7] in Meru, Kenya to a Ugandan father and a Kenyan mother[8] She was the first female graduate of the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts, Makerere University in Kampala between 1950 and 1952 where she studied design, painting and sculpture.
She worked as an art teacher in rural Kenya, retiring in the 1980s to pursue art professionally. During this period in her life, she got married in 1953, then having three children from her marriage.[3][4][5][6] In 1987, she became arti