WORLD ART DAY CELEBRATION 2023, STATEMENT BY GHANA ASSOCIATION OF VISUAL ARTISTS (GAVA)
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WORLD ART DAY CELEBRATION 2023, STATEMENT BY GHANA ASSOCIATION OF VISUAL ARTISTS (GAVA)

Today Saturday, April 15th 2023, artists around the world including Ghana, are celebrating World Art Day; a day instituted to raise worldwide attention to the work of international artists, and the ways of creative expression. Today, all kinds of art are encouraged for people to expand their artistic interests, and to get to know mediums…

EFFUTU MCE LAUNCHES THE 2022 ABOAKYIR FESTIVAL CRAFT EXHIBITION 

EFFUTU MCE LAUNCHES THE 2022 ABOAKYIR FESTIVAL CRAFT EXHIBITION 

MAY 5, 2022 The Aboakyir festival of the people of Winneba on Thursday May 5, 2022 witnessed a cutting-edge event with the launching of the Aboakyir Festival Craft Exhibition. Designed and initiated by the Centre for National Culture in collaboration with the Ghana Association of Visual Artistes (GAVA), the exhibition was to create an opportunity…

THE ART EXHIBITION TITLED CATCH EYES – NII AMASAH ABIFAO

THE ART EXHIBITION TITLED CATCH EYES – NII AMASAH ABIFAO

Recreating the lifestyle of the people round him into his paintings and performances is  a beloved passion he cherishes very greatly. He tells his stories by the use of vivid colors and other interesting materials to force his messages into the emotions of art lover’s, thereby trying to catch their eyes and attention to bring…

Kizito Amartey

Kizito Amartey

Kizito Nii Amarh Amartey was born in Cape Coast in Ghana, in 1983 where he grew up and had his basic education. He obtained his BFA in Fine Art (Painting) in 2010 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana graduating with First Class Honors and having his National service as a…

KIZITO AMARTEY

KIZITO AMARTEY

About the Artist… Kizito Nii Amarh Amartey was born in Cape Coast in Ghana, in 1983 where he grew up and had his basic education. He obtained his BFA in Fine Art (Painting) in 2010 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana graduating with First Class Honors and had his National…

LAWRENCE KWAKU AGYEMAN

LAWRENCE KWAKU AGYEMAN

About the Artist… “This world is but a canvas to our imagination”. Henry David Thoreau Lawrence kwaku Agyeman’s motivation to explore his God-given, artistic potential to the highest limit, is premised on the conviction that potential is limitless, but until one boldly attempts to explore and unearth it, it will lie deep, untapped and dormant…

SETH CLOTTEY

SETH CLOTTEY

About the Artist… Seth Clottey lives and works in Accra, Ghana. He was born in La in 1962 and attended Ghanatta College of Art in Accra. He has been practicing his painting since his graduation in 1981. Clottey is a member of Practicing Artists International (Paint). His paintings encompass a wide range of subjects from…

DANIEL BOTCHWAY

DANIEL BOTCHWAY

About the Artist… Daniel Botchway a renowned, young Ghanaian artist in collages and paintings, using acrylic and recycled materials which include pieces of fabric, cardboards, sawdust, worn-out footwear etc. He believes and conceptualizes his works of art to serve as historical tales to portray the dynamism in the Ghanaian traditional mode of living from the…

NII T. MILLS

NII T. MILLS

About the Artist… ‘Fine Art is a calling’That is the only explanation I can give to my encounter with this endeavour which took hold of me since my childhood and wrestled with me through my youth all the way up to adulthood; a compulsion which grips me even today.I was called into fine art quite…