{"id":8099,"date":"2013-08-10T17:44:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/govt-urged-to-encourage-youth-to-develop-culture-of-creative-art\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:44:44","slug":"govt-urged-to-encourage-youth-to-develop-culture-of-creative-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/govt-urged-to-encourage-youth-to-develop-culture-of-creative-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt urged to encourage youth to develop culture of creative art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr Yemisi Shyllon, the Founder of Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation (OYASAF), on Saturday urged all tiers of government to develop a culture of creative arts in the youth.<\/p>\n

Shyllon told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that with government\u2019s involvement, Nigerian art would be accorded the right priority and placed on the world map.<\/p>\n

“We should aim at growing Nigerian art by letting the world know what we have cherish it and sell it to the world.<\/p>\n

The engineer turned art enthusiast, said that he was using the foundation to mobilise children and direct them toward arts and culture.<\/p>\n

`We don\u2019t want the present generation to be a wasted generation. That is why I am doing what I am doing to let them know the importance of arts and culture.<\/p>\n

“It is a long road but we are ready to travel that road to get it right,\u2019\u2019 he told NAN.<\/p>\n

Shyllon said that in April, the foundation and the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, co-sponsored Secondary Schools’ Art Competition.<\/p>\n

He said that 20 secondary schools participated in on-the-spot life drawing.<\/p>\n

“I am already working in conjunction with an organisation in Jos, Plateau, to sponsor primary and secondary schools\u2019 arts competition.<\/p>\n

“I want to help to develop the culture of creativity in the young ones; I want to catch them young.<\/p>\n

“It (art competition) is also to make them know that hard work pays instead of involving themselves in the vices that are ravaging the country now.<\/p>\n

“I will also sponsor children’s workshop and the national art workshop with the University of Lagos Creative Arts Department on Sept. 23,” he said.<\/p>\n

He, however, said that what he was doing was measurable because he had produced numerous artists.<\/p>\n

“Yes, what OYASAF is doing is a fulfillment of my life ambition to leave a legacy in life and the area which I decided to leave a legacy is in the art,\u2019\u2019 Shyllon said.<\/p>\n

NAN reports that since Shyllon ventured into art collection at the University of Ibadan decades ago, his interest in art had grown.<\/p>\n

This preoccupation led him into not just art collection, but also sponsorship of art programmes and promotion of research in the visual art.<\/p>\n

Shyllon is one of the leading art promoters in Nigeria, especially visual arts.<\/p>\n

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