Organization Mission

Artikina Academy is a vocational education institute dedicated to sustainable arts and crafts education in Nigeria. We are passionate about integrating education, cultural advocacy, and entrepreneurship to support creative communities worldwide. At Artikina Academy, our mission is to help individuals turn their passion for the arts into thriving businesses and sustainable livelihoods, while contributing to skills developmenr and innovation. In addition to designing training programs, we also lead workshops and mentorship initiatives that focus on building the capacity of emerging creatives and educators.

Areas of Expertise

  • Arts and crafts education – We provide hands-on training programs focused on developing sustainable arts and crafts skills, enabling individuals to turn their creative passions into viable businesses.
  • Entrepreneurial Empowerment for Creatives – We help emerging artists and craft practitioners build entrepreneurial skills and set up businesses, emphasizing financial sustainability and community impact.

Current Top Priorities for Guidance or Collaboration

Contact us to learn more about these current priority areas or to explore collaboration opportunities.
  • Creative Entrepreneurs Fellowship
    Launching and expanding a Creative Entrepreneurs Fellowship (exact name unconfirmed at the moment) to empower individuals to turn their creative passions into sustainable businesses. We welcome collaboration on mentorship, funding, and resource sharing to enhance the fellowship’s impact.
  • Education & Training Platform for Creatives
    Developing and promoting our Education & Training Platform for Creatives, focusing on essential business skills, professional communication, marketing, and sustainability in the arts. We’re seeking partners to co-create courses, certify programs, or provide tools that add value to our offerings.
  • Promoting Craft Education for Sustainable Development
    Advocating for SDG 4 (Quality Education) through craft-based education programs. We aim to collaborate with organizations and educators to create community-focused, sustainable programs that preserve cultural heritage and build economic resilience.

Geographical Areas Served:

Rural/Remote, Suburban/Exurban,

Primary Audience Served:

Community Members, Youth (15-24),

Artistic Discipline:

Arts and crafts, Literature and Storytelling,

Title: 2280 Pasos Bajo un Cielo Nublado | Artist: Hernán Jourdan | Medium: Film

When I was asked to create a work of art exploring literacy, I wanted to create a dance but I had no dancers or a studio, so I chose to use my own body in the space I had, my yard. Fluent Nature is video of micro-choreography that explores what cannot be expressed with words, how nature has its own language, and how placing the human body in nature changes the story.

Title: What Is Me and What Is Not Me | Artist: Alex Chadwell | Medium: Music

My thinking on arts and literacy centers around the concept of literacies and artmaking as both sense-making and meaning-making processes that organically and inevitably overlap, intersect, and reciprocate. Compositionally, What is me and what is not me is a sound collage of sorts (there is no notation for the piece, and I'd be hard pressed to recreate it accurately) that abstractly and aurally represents the relationships between literacies and artmaking.

Title: A Curious Honeybee | Artist: Gideon Young | Medium: Film

Offering welcome through traditional and digital elements of literacy, A Curious Honeybee provides an experiential learning environment by activating visual, musical, natural, and emotional literacies.

Title: Tercera Llamada | Artist: Karilú Forshee | Medium: Audio

La Carpa Theatre is a project that I am currently directing in the Detroit Latinx community. The project aims to strengthen and uplift youth voices through devised theatre, in the style of the Mexican Carpas. This audio was created in the theatrical environment envisioned for our project. The ways in which literacies are re-defined are at the heart of La Carpa Theatre's mission.

Title: Literaseas | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite and ink on paper with digital edits

Title: A Riddle | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

Title: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits