Arts & Crafts

ARTS

Traditional masks, statuettes, beads and fabrics from all over Africa.
Bakary Camara - 34 rue Felix Faure
Galerie Antenna - 9 rue Felix Faure - 822 17 51
Galerie Nefertiti - Avenue Pompidou @ rue Mohamed V - 822 82 53
Galerie Orisha - 14 rue Mohamed V - 822 56 09
Galerie du Sahel - 88 rue Mousse Diop - 822 09 95
Marche Manding - 34 rue Felix Faure @ rue Mohamed V
Touba Galerie -16 rue Mohamed V - 821 32 04

Artists’ studios
Senegalese fine arts are recognized worldwide.
About 80 painters and sculptors open their studios’doors to visitors or exhibit their work in galleries.

Seydu Barry - Terrou Baye Soguy- Anse Bernard - 824 93 43
Fode Camara - rue 23 @ rue 20 - Medina - 821 23 07
Djibril Andre Diop - Ecole Immaculee Conception - Bd. Djily Mbaye - 822 55 26
Souleymane Keita - 28 Sud Foire - 827 23 74
Seyni Mbaye - rue 17 @ rue 8 - Medina - 821 24 57
Jo Ouakam - 15 rue Jules Ferry
Moussa Tine - 42 rue Victor Hugo - 821 40 79
Mamadou Wade - 66 Ave. Jean XXIII - 822 04 67

Art galleries:
Arte - 5 rue Victor Hugo - 821 95 56
Diza Design - 21 Ave. Faidherbe - 820 16 03 (paintings, furniture, objects)
Espace Wengalou - 36 rue Victor Hugo - 822 08 28 (home accessories, paintings)
Galerie Nationale d’Art Contemporain - 19 Ave. Albert Sarraut - 821 25 11
Galerie Lezard - 33 rue Wagane Diouf - 821 10 66
Galerie 39 - 39 Ave. Pompidou - 821 18 21
Guy Gi - 17 rue Jules Ferry
You will also enjoy the galleries and artists’ studios on Goree Island.

CRAFTS

Intricate hand-woven fabrics, precious gold and silver jewelry, unique glass and sand painting, traditional basketry, leather work and pottery, wood carving, batik are a few of the wonderful crafts available in Dakar.

All crafts:
Soumbedioune Craft Village: by the ocean, on the Corniche Ouest, a 10-minute taxi drive from all major hotels. Open every day. 821 79 08.

Hand-woven fabrics and accessories:
Acoma - Caritas - Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop, km 2 - 822 37 60
Atiss - 12 rue Huart - 822 00 49
Score supermarket - Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop

Sand painting:
Black, ocher, red, white, gray sands from every region of Senegal are used to create original paintings.
Decasa - 65 Avenue Blaise Diagne - 822 93 77

Souwers (glass painting):
The technique of reverse painting on glass came to Senegal from the Orient in the 19th century. Of purely Islamic inspiration in the beginning , the "Souwer" gradually incorporated scenes of daily life and portraits of Senegalese heroes. They now offer a diversity of themes. The paintings can be bought anywhere on the street, but if you want to see an artist actually painting in reverse, you can go to "La Cour des Maures" , 69 Avenue Emile Badiane where a painter has an open-air studio.

Jewelers:
Exquisite and inexpensive jewelry in 18 kt gold or silver.
Djibril Gueye - 12 rue Mohamed V - 821 87 94
Dakar Bijou - 23 rue Mohamed V
La Cour des Maures ( Mauritanian style silver) - 69 Avenue Emile Badiane