My direct engagement with arts in Ghana occurred during four days in 1967, when I stayed
with Roy and Sophie Sieber in Legon. In 1972, I spent six months researching festivals and …

The visual arts of Ghana have been the focus of a vital field of study for over sixty years.
Since only a few articles dealing with visual art have appeared in Ghana Studies over the …

This essay is my reflections on the history and present state of the art-historical scholarship
about Ghanaian art, both indigenous and contemporary. While it highlights the significant …

The study of the visual arts in Ghana has come a long way in the last sixty years. The
contributions to this special issue of Ghana Studies are a testimony to the vitality of this field …

This project is an exploration of the preferred styles and imagery of contemporary artist and
students of the College of Arts at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology …

This paper deals with the general characteristics of sculpture produced in the traditional
society by the different ethnic groups living in what is today known as Ghana. This is …

Physically, he is like a huge block of wood, thick, round, bulky, massive, dominant. But it is
his eyes one notices first: expressive deep brown cherries streaked with the tans and reds of …

This article explores the last six decades of visual art studies in Ghana. It focuses primarily
on historic indigenous art genres. For strategic reasons, and because of space constraints, it …