Education
1978 Candidate MFA, African Visual Arts, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
1975-76 Post Graduate Studies, Graphic Design/Typography, London School of Communications (London, England)
1972-73 London Metropolitan University, The Cass, Syracuse Abroad Program, London, England
1970-74 BFA, Printmaking (Cum Laude) Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Selected Solo Shows
2025 The Garden of Mi Familia, Cathedral Village, Black Arts Festival, Andora, PA
2024 Shape of My Heart, Allens Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Salt Eaters + Rough Edges, Art and Peace Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Ancestry in Transition, MKA Institute Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2008
Selected Group Shows
2024 (re)Focus, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
2023 How Art Heals, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Woodmere Annual: 77th Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Museum, Phila., PA
2018 Transforming Jazz-A visual journey, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Alumni Show, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY
2016 Good Night Sleep, The Colored Girls Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Empowering Memory, Scribe Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014 The Art of Re-Memory, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY
Public Art Commissions
2026 Market East Street, Mural Arts Advocate, Center City District and The City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA
2024 Hearts for Little Amal, The City of Philadelphia and the Office of Arts,
Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE), Philadelphia PA
2021 Ife Nii Owoo: Fans of Homage, Philadelphia Airport (PHL), Philadelphia PA
2020 Healing Heart Wall of Remembrance, City Hall Plaza, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Ogun & the People, multi-media site specific Commission for Kulu Mele's premiere performance at Annenberg Theatre, funded by Pew Center for Arts and Heritage,Philadelphia, PA
2018 Elephants on the Avenue: Race, Class, and Community in Historic Germantown, funded by Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, PA
2017 READ: Pathway to hope, Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Branch Library, Philadelphia, PA
2010 The President’s House: Commemorative Site, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, PA
Grants / Awards/Residencies
2022 Leeway Foundation, Leeway Transformation Award (TLA), Philadelphia, PA
2020 Leeway Foundation & Fleisher Art Memorial, Leeway / Fleisher Residency, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Leeway Foundation, Change Grant Award, Philadelphia, PA
Publications
2023 “Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy 1974-77 “(pages 78-85) Exhibition
Histories published by Afterall, University of Arts in London, England
2020 “Art as a Mass Political Weapon, The Poster Collective (1972–1982)”, London, England1992 “A is for Africa: Looking at Africa through the Alphabet” Children's Picture Book Published by the Africa World Press, Princeton, NJ
Selected Collections
Molefi Kete Asante Institute (MKAI)
Vashti Dubois / Colored Girls Museum
Charles Fuller Collection
Nixon Foundation Collection
The Lewis Tanner Moore Collection
Adrian Moody Collection
Professional Organizations
Germantown Artist Roundtable, member
Greene Street Artist Cooperative Board (GSAC), President
The Center for Emerging Visual Artist (CFEVA), member
The Bethel Burying Ground Memorial Advisory Committee, member
Professional Teaching and Community Engagement
2026: Art Heals: COMHAR Mental Health Organization, Philadelphia PA
2025-26 Unfolding Stories: Mixed Media and Memory, Center in the Park, Philadelphia PA
2024-25 Fans of Homage: Celebrating legacy through Art, New Courtland Fellowship, CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA
2025-present Teaching Artist, Allen’s Lane Art Center
2023-24 Teaching Artist, New Courtland Fellow/Center for Emerging Visual Artist (CFEVA)
2022 Panelist: Celebration of Harriet Tubman: The Power of Public Art: Connecting People, Place, and Story, The City’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE)
2019 Ogun + the People Community Engagement Workshop, African American Museum in Philadelphia
2017 Explosion Book Workshop, Elephants on the Avenue Community Engagement Project, Concord School Historic House, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Behind Hidden Doors Tunnel Book Workshop, Elephants on the Avenue Community Engagement Project, La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1988-94 Adjunct Associate Professor, Moore College of Art and Design