The Department of Painting and Sculpture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has been featured in African Arts Summer 2021 Issue (Volume 54, Issue 2). The academic journal is one of the acclaimed journals of international visual arts and culture. Africa Arts dedicated its Summer 2021 issue (volume 54, issue 2) to the teaching, research, exhibitions and achievements of the Department and its project space, blaxTARLINES KUMASI.
The cover of this special issue features the KNUST Great Hall wrapped with jute sacks by the international artist Ibrahim Mahama during the 52nd Congregation held in July 2018.
The department was also featured in the 2015 and 2019 editions of the Venice Biennale (the Olympics of Contemporary Art Exhibitions) and the 2017 edition of the Documenta (the global-level art quinquennium).
The twenty co-authors of the articles include lecturers, PhD and MFA students, alumni, and mentees. The lecturers are Dr. kąrî’kạchä seid'ou, Prof. Edwin Bodjawah, Kwaku Boafo Kissiedu, George Ampratwum, Dr. Mrs. Amenuke, Michael Adashie and Dr. Bernard Akoi-Jackson. The PhD students and mentees include Adjo Kisser, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson, Keziah Owusu-Ankomah, Kelvin Haizel and Ibrahim Mahama,
The African Arts Journal is a quarterly print and online journal with a consortium of editors from UCLA, Rhodes University, University of Florida, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It has a rigorous peer-review process and has had wide readership across the globe since 1967. It is the key journal for Africanist art historians and other scholars interested in the visual arts of the African continent and its diasporas. It is published by MIT Press and the James S. Coleman African Studies Centre (UCLA). African Arts is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, JSTOR and EBSCO.
