Artist Talk: Bukuru Nyandwi

Please join us in the Main Gallery from 2pm – 3pm for a conversation with designer Sarah Rowland and Milk River artists Bukuru Nyandwi + Barry O’Keefe. We encourage guests to participate in the discussion about Bukuru’s exhibition, “Inawezekana: It Will Be Done”, on view through September 15th.

Bukuru Nyandwi is a self-taught artist who works at Milk River Arts. He is known for work that imaginatively traces the story of his life experiences. Born in Congo in 1993, Nyandwi first took refuge in Tanzania. He came to Richmond, Virginia with his family when he was 15 years old. Bukuru loves singing and traveling with Richmond Free Methodist Church’s Semerera Choir.

Milk River Arts connects and empowers a neurodiverse community of artists. We pair adult artists with disabilities with professional artist-mentors who accompany them in creating, exhibiting, and selling unique bodies of work. In addition to providing transformative mentorship, we create ambitious, risky public projects that demonstrate an inclusive vision of how people with different abilities & experiences can fully participate in life’s cultural conversation.