“Nostalgia for Homeland: In the Studio with Kedir Keri Ousman” will explore thoughts of Ethiopia in a free virtual presentation starting at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12.
The event will be presented by Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. To register, go to Meeting Registration - Zoom.
Kedir Keri Ousman, 55, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He spent his childhood in the beautiful densely forested southwest province of Ethiopia and attended the Addis Ababa Fine Art School from 1985 to 1989.
In 1993 he was accepted into the Painting Department at the Surikov Institute, in the studio of Eugeny Maximovitch. He graduated with a Master's degree in 2000 and went on to study computer graphics in Rostov, Russia. In addition to oil painting and computer graphics, Kedir also has a strong interest in the art of fresco, sgraffito and stone mosaic.
From October 2001-September 2005, he worked as department head at Neon Addis, an advertising company in Addis Ababa. Since September 2004, he has worked at Addis Ababa University School of Fine Arts and Design as an instructor in Painting and History of Art and at Saint Yared Music School as a lecturer in History of Art.