About Royalafrican.org

How it Started

Who are We?

Royalafrican Art Foundation is a non-profit organization, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It was founded in 2008 by David Oduki to facilitate Visual African Art exchange between Africa and the rest of the world. Royalafrican had it’s first exhibition + children’s art workshops at The Uganda Museum in 2009

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How it is going

What We Do

Since then, The Royalafrican Art Foundation is engaged in delivering programs in Africa to benefit children. These high-quality children’s programs include causes to set up libraries and museum spaces where local children can come and interact with the rest of the world via workshops, art residencies, seminars to offer outstanding educational programs to both the kids and the parents.

Our Mission

Royalafrican Art Foundation is a non-profit organization which aims to facilitate Visual African Art exchange between Africa and the rest of the world through workshops, seminars, residencies and creation of museums and libraries for kids in Africa. Royalafrican.org aims to improve the cultural access to, and visibility of, art. Focusing on the creation, curation of art within the public realm, acting as a dynamic liaison between artists, the local community, local businesses to place artwork that achieves shared goals.

Our Vision

Provide Access to Art in a safe environment for community artists, kids and their families where the importance of art as education is brought to the forefront.
Royalafrican.org embraces cultural initiatives & diversity, servicing a broad range of local communities as both an incubator and catalyst to nurture, harness, initiate and foster creative projects while inviting and encouraging local public participation.
Royalafrican.org operates as an open forum for constructive dialogue and creative conversations, while simultaneously serving as a platform for creative exchanges, cultural production, and artistic collaborations to include workshops, seminars, residencies and competitions.

Our Goals

Promotion of African art, artists, and social development in Africa
Bring awareness of the value having children involved in art.
Bring attention to African Artists via Art residencies, Competitions.
Organize & promote workshops for kids
Create safe spaces for kids and community to gain knowledge and art appreciation.

Royalafrican.org Value

Royalafrican Art Collection

Royalafrican Collection of Art is comprised of over 200 Art works by Dutch contemporary artists ( worth over EUR 500,000 ). This growing permanent collection of Art is one of the largest collections of European Art in Africa. This collection is a great asset in facilitating African understanding of other cultures. This given that not many African kids have the opportunity to visit museums abroad. In contrast, museums in Europe are filled up with the best African Art works.

24/7 Support Available Online

Royalafrican.org is available to support and answer your questions online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via our website and via email: info@royalafrican.org

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Where does your donation go?

Royalafrican Art Foundation is a non-profit organization that uses over 73% of donations for the donor programs. The remaining percentage of the donations go into supporting the programs to include marketing, advocacy and administration.

The transparency to our donors is accessible through our annual impact reports.

Donors

Peter Diem
Corneille
Karel Appel
Marion Baars
Nel van Duijker
Geoffrey Wijn
Bram Heiderman
Mila Jeleznikova
Eugenie Dammer
Hemmechien Knip
Henrike Kowalk
Ellen Langendam
Ton Eyssen
Sabine Spaanderman
Johann H.R. van den Noort

Rob Veening
Tiny Sommers
Johan Tunzi
Jan Teunissen
Esther de Bot
Martha Fyrigos
Petra Smits
Else Thonhäuser
Patrick de Snoo
Hedwig Schlötjes – Belle
Anky Floris
Kaloek
Hilly van Eerten
Joanna Paskewicz
Ellen van Toor

Renske Groenendijk
Mieke Winnubst
Eric Poelert
Ruben de la Rive Box
Brigitte Kleiberg
Justus Donker
Judith Habraken
Sharon Overmars
Eveline Kubbenga
Henk de Bouter
Jan Van der Ster
Maria van Raalten
Bilal Chahal
Jennifer Koorndijk
Harry Versteegen

Maurits Zijp
Marisa Rappard
Erik Zwezerijnen
Pieter Zandvliet
Marion van der Veen
Consuelo Plaza Aranda
Botas
Daniel Wichers
Maxim De Sio
Daudi Kalungi – Afriart
David Oduki – MoMAA