EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin Madison, Design Studies, MFA, May 2022 Focus Areas: Papermaking, Photography

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), BA Fine Art; 2019 Arrowmont School of Craft, Gatlinburg, TN, Scholarship for professional arts workshop; 2021

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (Peer Reviewed)

  • Invited to submit works for the 14th annual Hand paper-making magazine

  • North American Hand Paper-making Association Conference, selected presenter: Producing Work

    During the Pandemic: The Trial; international, on-line, Sept 2021

  • International Association of Paper-making Artists; Congress, selected panelist: Papermaking as

    Community Catalyst; international, on-line, Sept 2021

  • International association of PapeR-making Artists; selected panelist, (cancelled due to covid 19);

    2020

  • North American Hand Papermakers Association, Annual Conference: Paper Currents;

    International Meeting of Professional Practitioners: selected panelist/presenter, 2020

  • Selected as a Mentor: facilitated small group discussion with new practioners;

    North American Hand Papermakers Association, 2020

  • Annual Conference Scholarship recipient: Manifesto, Philadelphia, PA

  • Panel Presentation: Repurpose, Recycled, Renewed: Pulp Transformation

  • Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) International Conference; Accra, Ghana,

    Paper Presentation: Egyptian Paper and the Ghanaian Version, 2017

    EXHIBITIONS and AWARDS

  • Protecting the Black Woman Exhibition, Madison Technical College, February 2023

  • Black Prometheus Exhibition: The Legacy of Jacob Lawrence and Global Modernist Art – Norflok

    University, November 2022

  • Oak Spring Garden Foundation Interdisciplinary Resident artist August – September 2022

  • Collegiate Paper Art Triennial August 2022 – January 2024

  • UW Madison Division of Arts Creative Award 2022

  • Handmade Paper stories, Museum of Wisconsin Art Saint Kate gallery, 2022

  • Imprinted in Madison: Artists Making Their Mark, Madison Municipal building, 2022

  • Introspection / Retrospection, Morgan Conservatory National juried show 2022

  • SoHE Design Gallery, UW-Madison, MFA Thesis Exhibition (solo), upcoming, April 2022

  • School of Education Gallery, UW-Madison (solo) 2022

  • Data Science Institute Art Bazaar – Art meet Science, Discovery building (Group show) 2022

  • SoHE Design Gallery, UW-Madison, MFA Second Year Exhibition (solo), 2021

  • School of Education Gallery, UW-Madison, Art for Social Change (Group Show)

  • ABSA L'Atelier Art Exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2018

o International, juried - Awarded "Best from Ghana" and Second Merit Award
Award included sponsored travel to Germany for a two-month residency at The Sylt Foundation (delayed by Covid19)

• National Science Museum; Accra, Ghana, 2017
o Survey of Advanced Art Students, Esteemed Alumni, and Friends of KNUST Department

of Painting and Sculpture; national, juried • National Science Museum; Accra, Ghana 2016

o Cornfields in Accra, Survey of advanced Art Students, Esteemed Alumni, and Friends of KNUST Painting and Sculpture; national, juried

PROFFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Teaching Assistant, Professor Marianne Fairbanks:2022

  • Avon Folk School, Co-Facilitated Hand Papermaking & Cyanotype photography workshop with

    Mary Hark, Avon, MN; 2021

  • Invited to join the Diversity Committee for North American Hand Papermaking Association; 2021

  • Project Assistant, Professor Mary Hark, SoHE, UW-Madison; 2020-22

  • Teaching Fellowship Award, School of Human Ecology, UW-Madison; 2010-20

  • Hand Papermaking Workshop: Led class for 25 students; Prof Jonathan Senchyne, History of the

    Book

  • Research Assistant to UW-Madison Prof Mary Hark, in Kumasi, Ghana research studio; 2016-19

  • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST); National Service; 2016

  • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST); KNUST 2012-16

    PUBLICATIONS / ARTICLES / NOTES

  • University of Wisconsin Madison notable graduate students 2022 https://news.wisc.edu/meet-some-of-the-notable-uw-madison-graduates-of-spring-2022/

  • Bull and Branch – A publication from North American Hand Papermaking Association; 2019 (https://nahandpapermakers.wildapricot.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndReci pientCode=9xXaZoRlf0StxlaT8cFQt3YD8ZbW9cEC4c7R%2b8Sf7%2f9%2fIj9az9kwEHw b41TN6TIJ282dWbFdSXfCfewMbyXVGswtXd8LlDUYgLQNFOkwWSA%3d)

  • Bull and Branch – A publication from the North American Hand Papermaking;2021 https://nahandpapermakers.wildapricot.org/resources/BBIssues/BB2021-no1.pdf

    Hand Papermaking Journal (the premiere international publication for hand papermaking artists); on-line showcase of two recent works via Instagram (@handpapermaking)

    PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

    North American Hand Papermakers Association; 2019 - current Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA); 2019