Liberia Has No National Arts Program. This Gallery Is Filling the Void

In a quiet hall at the DRIMS School System, dozens of students bent over their desks, carefully shaping lines across blank pages.

To an outside observer, the exercise might look simple. But for the 50 students gathered in the hall, it was about mastering the foundational principles of drawing, including line, shape, form and proportion; and color application techniques of how complementary, analogous and triadic color schemes interact to create balance and contrast in art composition.

“In art, the…