WORLD ART DAY CELEBRATION 2023, STATEMENT BY GHANA ASSOCIATION OF VISUAL ARTISTS (GAVA)

Today Saturday, April 15th 2023, artists around the world including Ghana, are celebrating World Art Day; a day instituted to raise worldwide attention to the work of international artists, and the ways of creative expression. Today, all kinds of art are encouraged for people to expand their artistic interests, and to get to know mediums they are unaware of. This year 2023 will mark the 8th successive celebration in Ghana after the first celebration in 2015 was initiated by the Ghana Association of Visual Artists (GAVA), after becoming a member of the International Association (IAA)
in 2014. Hence, the Association has been spearheading the celebration of the event in Ghana.

‘World Art Day’ was founded by the International Association of Art (IAA) on April 15, 2012, after a proposition was put forward during the IAA’s 17th General Assembly. The primary objective was to create a day for the celebration of the Fine Arts and to promote creative activity on an international scale. The date chosen among many other considerations was Leonardo Da Vinci’s birthdate in his honour, as one of history’s most renowned artists and inventors, who was considered a symbol of multiculturalism, free speech, world peace, tolerance and vision for the world.