{"id":1869,"date":"2020-09-21T09:40:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T09:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africablooming.com\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2020-10-05T19:02:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:02:15","slug":"red-clay-studio-a-new-art-space-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africablooming.com\/en\/red-clay-studio-a-new-art-space-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Clay Studio | A New Art Space In Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This past September 5th, a mind-blowing art space was inaugurated in the city of Tamale. The internationally known Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama<\/em> has extended the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art<\/em> – opened last year – with the Red Clay studio.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

With interest in architecture, urban materials, history and politics, Ibrahim Mahama<\/a><\/em> is acclaimed for his large scale installations and performances around the world. He has recently been selected to represent his country at the Sydney and Venice Biennial<\/em>e<\/a>.
Based between Accra, Kumasi and his hometown Tamale, the artist not only wants to create but also desires to transform the contemporary art scene in Ghana.
Last year he founded the SCCA, Th<\/em>e Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art<\/em><\/a>, bringing a cultural space to the local people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much more than just a gallery, the SCCA<\/a> is an artist-run project space, exhibition and research hub, cultural repository and artists\u2019 residency. It gives opportunity to locals to experience art, a creation space to artists, showcases different generations and acknowledges the evolution of art in Ghana.

This year, in the middle of a pandemic, Ibrahim Mahama<\/em> <\/a>brings hope with the opening of a new space: Red Clay Studio<\/a><\/em>. Again, the space named after the burnt-umber earth of northern Ghana, is not only an artist studio. The vast complex wants to connect communities with convertible rooms indoors and outdoors, allowing screenings, meetings, workshops, and creating.
The aim of the cultural institution is to elevate minds by bringing a critical discourse through curation, publications and diverse activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the opening, Red Clay Studio<\/em> <\/a>welcomes a retrospective of Ghanaian artist Agyeman Ossei ‘Dota’: Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace<\/em>, co-curated by Adwoa Amoah, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n