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SUMMARY:Grace Note - a talk by artist ATTA KWAMI - Atta Kwami\, Independen
 t Artist\, Art Historian and Curator
DTSTART:20121029T170000Z
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:The talk assesses the legacy of Grace Salome Kwami (1923-2006)
  as a modern Ghanaian artist\, educator and mentor. Her varied oeuvre of p
 hotographs\, textile designs\, terracotta figures\, pots\, portraits\, dra
 wings\, paintings\, decorated calabashes\, sculpture\, bead work and dress
 -design are of such a high and consistent standard that people are consid
 ering establishing an art museum in her house in Ho\, Ghana. Towards the e
 nd of her life Grace Kwami spent many months in Kumasi\, where she had tra
 ined in the 1950s as a Specialist Art Teacher at the Kumasi College of Tec
 hnology\, (now the KNUST).\n\nAtta Kwami is a Visiting Fellow at the Cambr
 idge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme\, Art and Museums in Africa (
 2012/2013). He completed his Ph.D. in Art History at The Open University i
 n 2007. As a Senior Lecturer\, he taught painting and printmaking from 198
 6 to 2006 at the College of Art\, KNUST\, Kumasi. A number of his painting
 s hang in major public collections including the National Museums of Ghana
  and Kenya\, the V&A Museum\, London\, the National Museum of African Art\
 , Washington\, DC\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York and The Brit
 ish Museum.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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