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 pulication
How public are public statues?	https://www.explore-vc.org/en/objects/how-public-are-public-statues.html
Establishing the Interior. A Teaching Tool	https://www.socialdifference.columbia.edu/projects-/insurgent-domesticities
Conservation of natural and cultural heritage in Kenya	http://books.google.co.ke
Devolving Cultural Heritage: Education and Training for Counties in Kenya	http://research.tukenya.ac.ke/images/conference-absracts/lydiah%20muthuma%208.pdf
Nairobi in pictures: political icons 1899-2000	https://www.africabib.org/s/rec.php?RID=370662164
Modern Kenyan Identity: Crafting a Nation Through Monuments	http://fmkjournals.fmk.edu.rs
The Representation of Womanhood in Kenya's Contemporary Painting: Mukabi's mama kibanda	http://200.144.145.24
Political Identity in Nairobi's CBD A Visual Exploration of Kenya's capital city	http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr
Mass Culture is Killing Beauty: the case of #mydressmychoice	https://iaaesthetics.org
Nairobi: Symbol and Metaphor of Government in Beauty is taking on a new Form	https://iaaesthetics.org/publications/yearbooks/item/109-vol-
A Visual Exploration of Kenya's Capital	https://mambo.hypotheses.org/date/2013/01?lang=en_GB
Training the 21st Century Kenyan Artist: how the Competency Based Curriculum lends itself to art training	http://research.tukenya.ac.ke/images/abstracts/2019/tuk-creativity-conference-proceedings-03-03-19.pdf
xxxxxxxxxxx	https://mambo.hypotheses.org/date/2013/01?lang=en_GB
Deja Que Africa Te Hable (Let Africa Speak to You)	https://www.amazon.com/Deja-que-África-te-hable/dp/8432131490
Monumental Landscapes	https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.soundcloud.com/warscapes-online/monumental-landscapes&ved=2ahUKEwi-44vZrq7wAhXLBGMBHeR_Ck0QFjABegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw1bWtcNbkXALhk62h4mJYlI
xxxxxxx	http://research.tukenya.ac.ke/images/conference-absracts/lydiah%20muthuma%208.pdf
xxxxxxxxxx	https://iaaesthetics.org/publications/yearbooks/item/109-vol-
The manifestation of Political Identity in Nairobi's Central Business District: an aesthetic critique	https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://scanr.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/publication/halshs-01206586&ved=2ahUKEwiM_vDcr67wAhXYAmMBHdBICTUQFjACegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw3dUik1EtWwD0DUHvfnOH2A
X xxxxxxxxxxxxxx	https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.soundcloud.com/warscapes-online/monumental-landscapes&ved=2ahUKEwi-44vZrq7wAhXLBGMBHeR_Ck0QFjABegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw1bWtcNbkXALhk62h4mJYlI
xxxxxxx	https://www.explore-vc.org/en/objects/how-public-are-public-statues.html
xxxxxxxxxxx	https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.explore-vc.org/en/objects/how-public-are-public-statues.html&ved=2ahUKEwjX8_z7ra7wAhWODxQKHeBqBl8QFjAJegQIFBAC&usg=AOvVaw3RfmTwMQJ4HyKDyik5EgRL
xxxxxxxxxxx	https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.soundcloud.com/warscapes-online/monumental-landscapes&ved=2ahUKEwi-44vZrq7wAhXLBGMBHeR_Ck0QFjABegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw1bWtcNbkXALhk62h4mJYlI
xxxxxxxxxxxx	https://www.socialdifference.columbia.edu/projects-/insurgent-domesticities

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

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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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