Ag. Executive Secretary of the Creative Arts Agency, Mr. Gideon Aryeequaye, has shown enthusiasm to lead the charge to help renovate the National Arts Gallery.
Mr. Aryeequaye, a media personality, recently visited the Centre for National Culture, Accra to tour the facility.
He met with some artists and members of the Ghana Association of Visual Artists (GAVA) on site who were creating paintings to raise funds for renovation of the National Arts Gallery.
The National Arts Gallery is the oldest and only Arts gallery for the state yet it has received little to no attention in my decades.
It was moved to the WEB Du Bois Centre years back but that has also to its own fate.
The Centre for National Culture, Accra and the Arts Centre is deteriorating slowly since it was announced in the previous administration about the Marine Drive Project, in 2017.
The media personality said in his interaction with the artists and management of the Centre for National Culture:
“This place needs a face-lift. We must create a space where people come and are not in a hurry to leave.
“For this being the oldest and only National Arts Gallery we have as a nation, we must renovate it for preservation.
“I am aware of the Marine drive Project, but we can get the stakeholders to appreciate the fact that this place can be preserved to accommodate the project” said the Director of the Ghana Arts Agency, Mr. Gideon Aryeequaye.
