Barnabas Ticha Muvuthi was the first recipient of the ARAK Collection Art Writing Residency Fellowship, May-November 2023. He researched five artists from five different SADC countries: Rudolf Seibeb (Namibia), Nelly Guambe (Mozambique), Thebe Phetogo (Botswana), Victor Mutale Kalinosi Chishimba (Zambia) and Lutanda Zemba Luzamba (Democratic Republic of Congo).

Barnabas Ticha Muvuthi is Deputy Vice Chancellor of Open Window University for the Creative Arts in Lusaka, Zambia, and is the resident art critic at The Post Newspapers. He was awarded the 2012 CNN African Journalist of the Year for Art and Culture and a Media Institute of Southern Africa award in 2015 for his work in arts journalism.