Blooming Greens School in Yaba, Lagos, used its seventh annual Artrageous Charity exhibition to connect children’s creative work with a practical lesson in giving.
The exhibition brought together artworks by pupils and directed proceeds from sales toward support for less privileged members of the community.
Art as part of social education
School director Susan Babatunde-Yamah described the event as both an art exhibition and a way of teaching values such as generosity, empathy and responsibility.
Rather than separating artistic activity from community life, the school asked pupils to see their own work as something that could have an impact beyond the classroom.
The children produced varied works and presented them to parents and visitors, who could purchase pieces as part of the fundraising effort.
Young artists finding their own subjects
Among the participating pupils was ten-year-old Zara Danyaro, whose work addressed African women, Black identity and African animals.
Her contribution showed how even a school exhibition can provide space for individual interests and emerging visual language.
Artrageous Charity was therefore more than a display of classroom exercises. It used exhibition-making to connect artistic confidence, public presentation and a shared social purpose.