Since 2013, the South Sudanese civil war has created more than 2.3 million refugees. Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda was established in 2016 to host the rapid influx of South Sudanese refugees and is the largest of its kind in Africa. As of 2021, out of the estimated 300,000 refugees who live in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, 60% are under the age of 17 and very few opportunities exist for structured, creative educational activities within the settlement.

In 2019, local schools in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement which serve 2000 - 4000 youth, hosted the first Artolution program in partnership with UNHCR. The local team painted with over 600 participants, and more than 2,300 community members participated in celebrating the works of art.

The Artolution projects in the Bidi Bidi community and host communities focus on promoting public health messages, inter-cultural coexistence between the ranging South Sudanese cultures, multi-generational communication, and visualising the future hopes and dreams of the youth who currently live in the settlement.

Since the launch of the first community arts-based programming in 2018, Artolution has built local capacity by training 14 artists originally from South Sudan and Uganda, in addition to program coordinators that organise and oversee year-round activities. This first project quickly expanded from one large-scale mural to five, engaging more than 400 students. Additionally, Artolution has successfully created and implemented robust music, performance and dance education programs across the five zones of the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement. One of the highlights has been the first sustainable fashion show with clothing made by refugees out of recycled fabrics collected in Kampala.

The Artolution Uganda program has also created a refugee film team that was trained by filmmakers from Kenya and documents the stories of the refugee artists, made by refugee film makers.

Through the creative programmes pioneered by Artolution in Uganda, over twenty COVID treatment facilities across the country were painted with colourful murals illustrating messages of public health awareness, mental health, child protection and education. School buildings have been painted to enhance the learning environment with bright, vivid colours and images to support lessons that students learn across ages, regions and ethnic cultures. As a registered organisation, Artolution in Uganda works both with the government, and local organisations to develop localised approaches to amplify the most important messages voiced by the communities, through their own hands.

The Colour of Resilience project painted a canvas mural in the newly opened Artolution Community Art Center made out of Plastic Bottles, and was a reflection of all of the different cultural groups in the South Sudanese refugee settlement coming together to cultivate the outstretched hands of the profound story of common solidarity, the universal connectivity of creativity and embodied resilience.