DR LYDIA WAITHIRA MUTHUMA :: :: STAFF EPORTAL - THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA

Faculty:	Social Sciences and Technology
School:	CREATIVE ARTS AND MEDIA
Department:	Design and Creative Media
Current Designation:	Senior Lecturer, VISUAL ARTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY (DVAP)
Office Telephone:	+254(020) 2219929, 3341639, 3343672
Official Email:	Lydia.Muthuma@tukenya.ac.ke
Consultation Hours:	8AM-5PM MON - FRI

Level	Qualification Name	Institution	Year
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	HISTORY OF ART	UNIVERSITÉ MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, (France)	2013
Masters of Arts (MA)	HISTORY OF ART	KENYATTA UNIVERSITY(Kenya)	2002
Bachelor of Education (B.Ed)	FINE ART	KENYATTA UNIVERSITY(Kenya)	1988
Certificate	PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION	NGINDA PRIMARY SCHOOL(Kenya)	1977
O level/Equivalent	KCSE	ALLIANCE GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL(Kenya)	1983

Period	Institution	Position
22/12/2015 - TO DATE	TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA	LECTURER
2012 - TO DATE	NAIROBI UNIVERSITY	PARTTIME LECTURER
2020 - on-going	CSSD Columbia University	Fellow
APRIL 2015 - JULY 215	NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE	GUEST RESEARCHER
2008 - 2015	STRATHMORE UNIVERSITY	ADJUNCT LECTURER

My interest is to investigate the meeting point of art and culture

Art history, Art education and a broad interest in aesthetics and visual culture

Aesthetics and the Contemporary Artist	The Kenyan Contemporary Artist: Themes, Focus and Perspective
Building Shared Futures	Creating word narratives from photographs: An examination of 20th Century photographs of Kenya.
Empowering Artists with Professional and Business Skills.	Art Education: professional training for budding and experienced artists.
Insurgent Domesticities	A fresh contribution to approaches and perspectives of studying the person and society. This is an approach using the domestic as that which is intimate, interior and indispensable to humans whether singly or in community.

Title	Link to publication	Year
Devolving Cultural Heritage: Education and Training for Counties in Kenya	View online	2016
Architectural Conservation in Nairobi. The Don Bosco Shrine.	View online	2024
Oral Histories and Documentary Heritage: Why Include Oral Histories in Documentary Heritage?	View online	2023
The Representation of Womanhood in Kenya's Contemporary Painting: Mukabi's mama kibanda	View online	2019
Mass Culture is Killing Beauty: the case of #mydressmychoice	View online	2017
Nairobi: Symbol and Metaphor of Government in Beauty is taking on a new Form	View online	2013
A Visual Exploration of Kenya's Capital	View online	2013
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Art Education here and now: artistic myth or truth?	View online	2024
The film Softie and the Kenyan imaginary	View online	2022
Decoding the work of three Kenyan Artists: Patrick Kinuthia, Wangechi Mutu and Kioko Mwitiki	View online	2024
How public are public statues?	View online	2020
Establishing the Interior. A Teaching Tool	View online	2023
Conservation of natural and cultural heritage in Kenya	View online	2016
Modern Kenyan Identity: Crafting a Nation Through Monuments	View online	2020
Nairobi in pictures: political icons 1899-2000	View online	2013
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Insurgent Domesticities	View online	2020
Political Identity in Nairobi's CBD A Visual Exploration of Kenya's capital city	View online	2014
The manifestation of Political Identity in Nairobi's Central Business District: an aesthetic critique	View online	2013
Training the 21st Century Kenyan Artist: how the Competency Based Curriculum lends itself to art training	View online	2018
Deja Que Africa Te Hable (Let Africa Speak to You)	View online	1996
Monumental Landscapes	View online	2021

Name	Project Title	Period
Mattsson, L. K	From wheels to walking	2015
Brundin S.	From wheels to walking	2015
Konjin, G.	Nairobi: Urban Studies	2016
Musau N. Dominic	INVESTIGATING THE AFRICAN COMPOSITIONAL FEATURES IN SELECTED CATHOLIC MASSES IN KENYA	2020 (on going)

Title	Institution
Chairperson	National Commission for UNESCO Memory of the World
Chairperson	National Commission for UNESCO Memory of the World. Link https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/
member	Kenya College of Arms. Link http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/Acts/CollegeofArmsCap98.pd
member	Academic Committee of The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) Link: http://kenyalaw.or
member of Executive Committee	International Association for Aesthetics. Link https://iaaesthetics.org
Fellow	MIT GAHTC

Description

Exhibition Title: monuments in nairobi: kenya’s identity Uppsala Konst Museum, Sweden. 2015 Link: http://www.nai.uu.se/
Traveling Exhibition Title: A Saint in Figures East African Chapter. (Nairobi, Mombasa, Eldoret and Kampala, Uganda) 2014 Link: www.unsantoendatos.wordpress.com
Exhibitions Title: A photographic story, Changing Perspectives: Nairobi Past and Present. Bristol Archives (UK) and National Museums of Kenya. 2019 Link: https://fairlypositive.com/2019/08/29/changing-perspectives-nairobi-past-and-present/#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&r=0&xywh=-479%2C495%2C6666%2C6528
Exhibition Title: NYROBI IN PICTURES: from papyrus swamp to capital city French Cultural Centre, Nairobi. 2013
Photographic Exhibition Title: the inspiration behind strathmore university Strathmore University Library, Kenya. 2018

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