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Guest Facilitators

Afrane Akwasi Bediako

Isshaq Ismail

The vibrant, bold and colourful paintings of Isshaq Ismail explore and investigates how the social, cultural, and political aspects of the modern world impact identity. Ismail paints faces and figures in impasto, typically depicting them with accentuated grotesque features and using black, brown, Blue, Purple, Green, Ochre and Red hues. His portraits also reflect his interest in themes such as desire, resilience, power, Joy and hope; they tell stories and universal truths about societies around the world. Ismail studied at the Ghanatta College of Arts and Design, he lives and works in Accra, Ghana.

Chris Fite-Wassilak

Nuna Adisenu Doe

Nuna Adisenu-Doe is an artist born in Accra, Ghana where he currently lives and work. He obtained a BFA Degree in Painting and Sculpture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana in 2017 and an MA in Art Market Appraisal and Professional Practice at Kingston University, London in 2020, a program accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) United Kingdom. He is the founder and director of the Compound House Gallery in Accra, Ghana, a newly opened gallery that positions itself as a space to test new strategies and engage off-grid interventions. He also works privately as an art market researcher and an advisor consulting for artists and galleries. Nuna has also delivered lectures at KNUST (Department of Painting and Sculpture) on the Art Market.

Ebony Coletu

Isshaq Ismail

The vibrant, bold and colourful paintings of Isshaq Ismail explore and investigates how the social, cultural, and political aspects of the modern world impact identity. Ismail paints faces and figures in impasto, typically depicting them with accentuated grotesque features and using black, brown, Blue, Purple, Green, Ochre and Red hues. His portraits also reflect his interest in themes such as desire, resilience, power, Joy and hope; they tell stories and universal truths about societies around the world. Ismail studied at the Ghanatta College of Arts and Design, he lives and works in Accra, Ghana.

Godelive Kabena Kasangati

Nuna Adisenu Doe

Nuna Adisenu-Doe is an artist born in Accra, Ghana where he currently lives and work. He obtained a BFA Degree in Painting and Sculpture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana in 2017 and an MA in Art Market Appraisal and Professional Practice at Kingston University, London in 2020, a program accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) United Kingdom. He is the founder and director of the Compound House Gallery in Accra, Ghana, a newly opened gallery that positions itself as a space to test new strategies and engage off-grid interventions. He also works privately as an art market researcher and an advisor consulting for artists and galleries. Nuna has also delivered lectures at KNUST (Department of Painting and Sculpture) on the Art Market.

Marie Helene Pereira

Isshaq Ismail

The vibrant, bold and colourful paintings of Isshaq Ismail explore and investigates how the social, cultural, and political aspects of the modern world impact identity. Ismail paints faces and figures in impasto, typically depicting them with accentuated grotesque features and using black, brown, Blue, Purple, Green, Ochre and Red hues. His portraits also reflect his interest in themes such as desire, resilience, power, Joy and hope; they tell stories and universal truths about societies around the world. Ismail studied at the Ghanatta College of Arts and Design, he lives and works in Accra, Ghana.

Nuna Adisenu Doe

Nuna Adisenu-Doe is an artist born in Accra, Ghana where he currently lives and work. He obtained a BFA Degree in Painting and Sculpture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana in 2017 and an MA in Art Market Appraisal and Professional Practice at Kingston University, London in 2020, a program accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) United Kingdom. He is the founder and director of the Compound House Gallery in Accra, Ghana, a newly opened gallery that positions itself as a space to test new strategies and engage off-grid interventions. He also works privately as an art market researcher and an advisor consulting for artists and galleries. Nuna has also delivered lectures at KNUST (Department of Painting and Sculpture) on the Art Market.

Laurel Richardson

Laurel Richardson is an interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. She received her MFA degree in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. Her art and research practice integrates painting and installation and focuses on family lineage, collective histories, and cultural memory centering on African Diaspora history. She is a lecturer at Brooklyn College and is on the visual arts faculty at Bard High School Early college in NYC. In 2022, she co curated “Ceremonial Soul” at Hempstead African American Museum in LI, NY. centering African sculpture and utilitarian objects. She was an artist fellow in residence with the James Weldon Johnson Foundation at Bard College, MA. Recent exhibitions include: 2021 “The Logics of Non Exchange” at Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery in NYC; 2020“This is Not Enough” at Slag Gallery in NYC; and she was one of the 40 finalists for the 2019 AXA Art Prize exhibition tour.

Nana Nyahan Tachie-Menson

Nkule Mabaso

Nkule Mabaso is an artist and curator who graduated with a Fine Arts degree from the University of Cape Town in 2011 and received a Masters in Curating from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2014. She is currently PhD Researcher, University of Gothenburg, HDK- Valand (Academy of Art and Design), Sweden. Previously she was the Curator at the Michaelis Galleries at the University of Cape Town. Recent noteable projects include the curation of the South Africa Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2019, Venice together with Nomusa Makhubu under the title “The stronger we become”. Mabaso’s practice is collaborative and research interests center around theorizing and articulating nuanced aesthetic questions from the black female vantage point.

Chiara Figone

Chiara Figone is a researcher, editor and curator based in Dakar and Berlin. She is the founder and artistic director of Archive, a non-profit organization operating out of Berlin, Dakar and Milan. She is the publishing director of Archive Books and editor-in-chief of Archive Journal and she is part of the collective AWU based in Dakar the recently opened a feminist library in its space in collaboration with Archive. Figone is professor of editorial studies and art publishing at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti – NABA, Milan. Most recently she co-curated Publishing Practices (2021-22) and Crossings (2022).

Nontsikelelo Mutiti

Nontobeko Ntombela

Nontobeko Ntombela is a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she currently heads the Art History Department. Ntombela’s research area focuses largely on South African modern and contemporary art with a particular interest in early modern Black women artists. A large part of Ntombela’s career has been working as a curator, producing exhibitions across South Africa and abroad. She has worked as a curator at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (2010-2020), Durban University Art Gallery (2005-2010), BAT Centre (2001-2005), and Art for Humanity (2000-2001), where she produced numerous exhibitions. She has also served in different capacities on several boards and committees for organisations such as the Department of Art and Culture, VANSA Visual Arts Network of South Africa, National Arts Council, KZNSA KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts, Art for Human Rights Trust, Johannesburg Art Gallery, and UNISA Art Gallery.

Baerbel Mueller

Baerbel Mueller is an architect and researcher based in Austria and Ghana. She is the Dean of and Associate Professor at the I oA, Angewandte, and head of the [Applied] Foreign Affairs lab, which investigates spatial, environmental and cultural phenomena in rural and urban Sub‐Saharan Africa and the Middle East. She is founder of nav_s baerbel mueller [navigations in the field of architecture and urban research within diverse cultural contexts], which has focused on projects located on the African continent since 2000. Her work comprises architecture, urban research, installations, scenography, and curatorial projects.

Shane Aslan Selzer

The Social Action Archive Committee (SAAC) was founded by artist Shane Aslan Selzer in 2014 as a collegiate structure for networked collaborations reactivating dormant archives. SAAC has produced projects and programming for Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Children’s Museum of the Arts in NYC, Visual AIDS and the Creative Time Summit 2019. Simone Hassan-Bey, joined SAAC in 2020 for the University Art Museum, at UAlbany exhibition, Torch ‘72/2020 which received their 2021 Lavender Award for Excellence in LGBTQ+ Creative Works. Using the SUNY Albany 1972 yearbook, edited by Ron Simmons as a primary source for intersectional social justice, SAAC is developing a new series of programming with The Tenth Academy, a free arts education initiative for Black, queer youth in Hudson, NY.

Ylinka Barotto

Baerbel Mueller

Baerbel Mueller is an architect and researcher based in Austria and Ghana. She is the Dean of and Associate Professor at the I oA, Angewandte, and head of the [Applied] Foreign Affairs lab, which investigates spatial, environmental and cultural phenomena in rural and urban Sub‐Saharan Africa and the Middle East. She is founder of nav_s baerbel mueller [navigations in the field of architecture and urban research within diverse cultural contexts], which has focused on projects located on the African continent since 2000. Her work comprises architecture, urban research, installations, scenography, and curatorial projects.

Shane Aslan Selzer

The Social Action Archive Committee (SAAC) was founded by artist Shane Aslan Selzer in 2014 as a collegiate structure for networked collaborations reactivating dormant archives. SAAC has produced projects and programming for Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Children’s Museum of the Arts in NYC, Visual AIDS and the Creative Time Summit 2019. Simone Hassan-Bey, joined SAAC in 2020 for the University Art Museum, at UAlbany exhibition, Torch ‘72/2020 which received their 2021 Lavender Award for Excellence in LGBTQ+ Creative Works. Using the SUNY Albany 1972 yearbook, edited by Ron Simmons as a primary source for intersectional social justice, SAAC is developing a new series of programming with The Tenth Academy, a free arts education initiative for Black, queer youth in Hudson, NY.