Zimbabwe Artists Project

Sylvia Chakururama

Sylvia was born in 1975 in Mt. Darwin, the 3rd born of 5 children.  She finished Grade 7 and then left school because her family didn’t have enough money for her to continue.  She stayed home until 1995, when she married and moved to Runyange, a village in Weya.  She has 2 children, born in 1996 and 2002.
Sylvia began doing art in 2005 in order “to help raise up my family.”  She was taught by Weya embroiderer Francisca Nyazongwe Chekacheke.  Her favorite subjects are Shona folk tales.