MFA Student Priscilla Kennedy Wins 2022 Yaa Asantewa Art Prize
Congratulations to MFA student at the Department of Painting & Sculpture, KNUST, Priscilla Kennedy, recipient of the Yaa Asantewa Art Prize (2022). The Prize, launched by Gallery 1957 in 2021, is in its second edition and is dedicated to women artists living and working in Ghana and its diaspora. Further commendations go to Efua Sutherland and Naomi Emevinya as first and second runners-up respectively...
The jury for this year's Yaa Asantewa Prize are Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, Founder of ART X Lagos; Joana Choumali Visual Artist; Ibrahim Mahama, Artist, Founder of the SCCA, Artistic Director of the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2023); Azu Nwagbogu, Curator, and Founder and director of African Artists' Foundation; Natasha Becker, Curator of African Art at de Young Museum; Katherine Finerty Curator, Art Historian and Writer.
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