On Wednesday June 9th, we hosted a welcome dinner in honour of Los Angeles native and New York based African American artist, Kehinde Wiley. This was done within our space in collaboration with the Creative Arts Council and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture of Ghana with many important figure heads within Ghana’s cultural and artistic ecology present. Visiting and Junior Fellows at Noldor had a chance to interact with Mr. Wiley during the tour given by the institution’s director.
While being a renowned artist most famous for painting Barack Obama’s national portrait in 2018, Kehinde Wiley is also the founder of the Black Rock Residency in Senegal (https://blackrocksenegal.org/). Named for the volcanic rocks that blanket its shoreline, Black Rock is a multidisciplinary artist-in-residence program founded in 2019. The residency brings together international artists to live and work in Dakar, Senegal for 1-3 month stays.
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