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  • African Ceramic Art: Scale and Surface
    African Ceramic Art: Scale and Surface
    Teddy Osei
    Yet, contemporary practitioners like Fred Okai, Simphiwe Mbuyunza, Djakou Kassi, and Ngozi-Omeje Ezema are pushing the medium into what the renowned author Rosalind Krauss defines as the “post-medium condition.” In this state, Krauss argues that the clay is liberated from the “craft ghetto” and reborn as a site of socio-political inquiry, monumental expression, and architectural intervention. Read More.
  • BEINGS through the same things
    Ghanaian Ceramics on the Rise
    Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng
    Although these artists are not exiles in the traditional sense, their relocation has entailed significant forms of loss-distance from place, community, and familiar modes of making. Rather than allowing these losses to undermine their practice, they are redirected into material and conceptual inquiry. Their work reflects an ongoing process of reconstruction, where memory, cultural reference, and contemporary experience are assembled into new visual languages that respond to both personal histories and collective conditions. Read More.
  • Rosemond Nyamewaa Van-Ess, “Strength of a Woman”, 2025, earthenware clay, lava glaze and beads glaze, 32” x 16” x 18”, Photo credits: Ross Junior Owusu.
    Hybridity Without Permission
    Ross Junior Owusu
    Hybridity, then, is not an endpoint. It is a condition of survival, resilience, and imagination. And through it, international graduate artists continue to expand what contemporary studio practice can hold, and who it is for. Within postcolonial and material culture discourse, hybridity has been understood not as synthesis, but as a condition shaped by power, translation, and uneven access. Read More.
  • Vincent Frimpong, My Two Eyes (detail)
    Meaning, Memory, and Material Expansion
    David Morrison
    Together, these artists offer expansive perspectives formed through the intersections of material and narrative. Each practitioner approaches content with nuance and intentionality, building upon histories of craft while pushing the field of ceramics forward. Collectively, their work speaks to personal experience, identity, culture, history, and ongoing environmental crises through the deliberate use of materials. Read More.
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When stories of African and international art are written, often the analysis is shared by someone with little time spent within these artists' homelands, who lacks understanding of lived experiences, and is removed from important cultural and social contexts. As an artist and educator… Read More

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