Nike Centre for Art and Culture
Artist and Designer Nike Davies Okundaye invites you to visit her Nigeria, an ancient culture that thrives in modern cities, a world that moves easily between talking drums and the internet. Nike found that the traditional methods of weaving and dying that had been her original inspiration were fading in Nigeria. She used her international success to launch a cultural revival, building art centers where young Nigerians master traditional arts and crafts. You can now visit the world of the Yoruba, to explore a culture that has flourished in Western Nigeria for well over 1000 years, art, Adire cloth, traditional art techniques, artists, craftsmen, textiles, Lagos, Oshogbo, Ogidi, Abuja, batik, indigo, beadwork, painting, carving, embroidery, metalwork, weaving, drumming, dancing...