Author: artsghana

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  Powerful portraits of tradition, community, and change

  December 1, 2025 • FeaturedArticle, News • 405

  By John Owoo (Tamale – Ghana) The inaugural Northern Ghana Foto Festival recently concluded in Tamale, the Northern regional...

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  Deconstructed and reassembled fancy-club costumes

  November 28, 2025 • FeaturedArticle, News • 445

  By John Owoo (Takoradi – Ghana) A recent installation by Ghanaian artist and academic Peter Amoako offers a visually striking,...

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  Menstruation – artist challenges myths and discriminatory traditions

  November 27, 2025 • FeaturedArticle, News • 497

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) An exhibition featuring artworks by Samuella Graham that address menstruation—the monthly...

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  Emotional landscapes through material and memory

  November 26, 2025 • FeaturedArticle, News • 536

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) Selorm Amekorfia’s latest body of work, which offers a reflective experience with sculpture that...

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  Ghana’s post-independence history in focus

  November 24, 2025 • FeaturedArticle, News • 448

  By John Owoo (Tamale – Ghana) Marking the 60th anniversary of Ghana’s historic Sword Monument, a new contemporary art...

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  Cycles of collapse, revelation, and renewal

  November 20, 2025 • FeaturedArticle, News • 522

  By John Owoo (Tamale – Ghana) An exhibition showcasing works by 14 women that explore themes of regeneration, ancestry, and...

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  Refracted, altered, and filtered memories

  November 14, 2025 • FeaturedArticle, News • 492

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) An exhibition of works by 2024 Yaa Asantewa Art Prize winner Denyse Gawu-Mensah, which forms part...

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  Rituals of memory, endurance, and survival

  November 10, 2025 • FeaturedArticle, News • 657

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) At Gallery 1957’s Unlimited Space in Accra, Serge Attukwei Clottey turns personal memory and...

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  Reminiscing a nation in motion

  November 6, 2025 • FeaturedArticle, News • 579

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) An exhibition of pictures by the late American photographer Willis Bell, titled “Light and...

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  Bodies of Water – Bodies of Blackness

  October 31, 2025 • FeaturedArticle, News • 621

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) Ghanaian-born, U.S.-based painter Otis Quaicoe makes a compelling return home with “Where the...