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