Rose Kirumira
Namubiru Rose Kirumira (born 28 October 1962). is a Ugandan sculptor and senior lecturer at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts (MTSIFA), Department of Visual Arts, College of Engineering Design Art and Technology, at Makerere University. She specializes in human form, sculpted wood, clay and concrete monumental sculptures. Her works include the statue "King Ronald Mwenda Mutebi" with the sculptor and professor Francis Nnaggenda at Bulange Mengo, and "Family" at Mulago Hospital in Kampala. Education. She undertook her undergraduate and graduate studies at Makerere University where she earned a PhD. Her dissertation was titled "The  Formation of Contemporary Visual Arts in Africa; Revisiting Residency Programmes." Career. Research. Rose Kirumira in 2010 undertook a research project, "Visual Art Skills and Activities Towards Enhancing Teaching How to Begin Reading and Writing of Early Childhood Education in Uganda" at Nkumba University. She was also part of the research project/teachers manual "Write a Story" for the Rockefeller Foundation and the Makerere Institute of Social Research. In 2005, she took part in the research project "8 Teachers Booklets: An Approach to Teaching Beginners of Reading and Writing at Lower Primary School in Uganda", a Makerere Institute of Social Research  project for the Rockefeller Foundation. "35 illustrated Children's Stories" was also a 2005 research project for Makerere University/Rockefeller Foundation for 450 primary schools in Uganda that she was part of. Rose Kirumira undertook "A Model for an Indigenous Ceramic Ware Cottage Industry", a 2003 research project at the Margaret Trowell school of Industrial and Fine Arts, a Makerere University/Japan AICAD project. Notable collections. Rose Kirumira sculpted "King Ronald Wenda Mutebi" at the Buganda Parliament, and the sculpture "Family"at Mulago Hospital Kampala in 1994.< She sculpted "Mother" at the UNDP headquarters. She further created a sculpture "The  Page" in Winnipeg, Canada in 1995, "Ambassador" in the United States in 1999 and "Omumbejja," a sculpture in Denmark, between 1997 and 2010. She sculpted "Friendship" in Changchun China in 2000. In 1997 she made sculptures for the Don Bosco Vocational Chapel in Kamuli District. Publications. Kirumira Namubiru authored a book chapter in "An Artist's Notes on the Triangular Workshops". She also authored "Identity Gender and Representation: Reflecting on the Sculpture 'Mother Uganda' ". Her work "Reconfiguring the Omweso board game : performing narratives of Buganda material culture" was published in 2019.