Exploring the causes of limited digital art at Margaret Trowel School of Industrial and Fine Arts.

Abstract

Digital art is a bigger challenge to most of the students at MTSIFA; this is because computers, drawing tabs, smart phones such as Samsung with a drawing tool are expensive to access by major students and is always hard to work with by some students. The main reason for the research intended to describe students’ challenges among the limitedness of digital art at MTSIFA under the following objectives; to identify the reasons for limited digital art by asking MTSIFA community including lecturers, students and the administrators. To find ways on how the above problem can be solved. In this study, 50 respondents were chosen where 2 of them were lecturers, 48 were students and the study methods used were both primary and secondary because additional data was needed for qualitative information. With the research findings, it was found out that most of the findings were obtained from non-digital artists who would have the desire to execute their artworks in digital form. It was further investigated and found out that the school should involve digital art practices since the world is growing digital, the should as well find out how they can enlarge their computer lab for proper use by many students even when doing painting, fashion, print making among others.