NYSC Camp Art Challenge

 

Lyno World, in collaboration with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) scheme, Lagos State have been organizing the NYSC Camp Art Challenge, also known as Kopas Art Jamboree and Seidougha Linus Eyimiegha have been the key figure in the design and running of this project.

From 2017 to date, seven successful editions have been held at the Lagos NYSC camp with over 50 active participants and thousands of passive participants that have come to witness the competition during the orientation camp period. Professional artists and art bodies have been part of the programme mostly as juries and sponsors. The Yaba College of Technology School of Art, Design and Printing Technology, the Cartoonists’ Association of Nigeria and Society of Nigerian Artists, Lagos State Chapter were part of the earliest partners and the programme have been sponsored by AB Art World, GT Bank, Negro Art Gallery, Dempco Studio and a couple of other corporate organizations.

Outstanding participants are usually recognized and given award of excellence and every other contestant gets a certificate of participation.

In a bid to add colour to the event, corps members in some editions of the programme have been engaged in live painting, face painting and graffiti.