Dr. (Mrs.) Dorothy Akpene Amenuke

Senior Lecturer


Dept: Painting and Sculpture
Dept. of Painting and Sculpture sculpture
Faculty of Art
College of Art and Built Environment
KNUST
Kumasi

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Research Areas/Interests

  I am interested in Artistically investigating “immediacy” with mixmedia, Fibre Art, Installations and Fabric surface design an...~more


Publications

    PUBLICATIONS

    • Cubic Optical Paradox. African Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.9 Pp.37-43, December 2016, ISSN:0855-9724

     

    • Interactive and Perceptual Engagement of Reconstructed Thoughts: A Sustenance for Our Built Environment. African Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.8, Pp 56-60 December 2015, ISSN: 0855-9724

     

     

    • Sakoalia K.D, Adu-Agyem J, Amenuke D, Deffor B (2019). Groundnut Shell As An Alternative Sculpture Material for Fine Art. Journal of Arts & Humanities. Vol 08, Issue 04, 2019: 30-43, ISSN: 2167-9045 (print), 2167-9053 (online)

     

    • Deffor B, Adu Agyem J, Amenuke D. A, Sakoalia K D (2019). Eggshell powder as a Viable Sculpture Material: the case of WBM Zion Senior High School, Koforidua, Ghana. Journal of Arts & Humanities. Vol 08, Issue 03, 2019:55-72, ISSN: 2167-9045 (print), 2167-9053 (online)

     

     

    • Amenuke, D.A (2018), Twists Turns and Broken Doors, Accra, G online Publishing LTD, ISBN: 978-9988-2-8134-2 (Published Catalogue)

     

    • Amenuke, D.A & Akoi-Jackson B (2021). Back-and-Forth: Cutting Our Coats According to Some Cloths and Other Smaller Thing in African Arts, Summer 2021, Volume 54 (2), James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA International Institute. http://www.mitpressjournals

     

    EXHIBITIONS

    Solo

    2017                            Twists, Turns and Broken Doors- Nubuke Foundation, Accra, June to September.

    2016                            ‘Habitation-Inhabitation”- KNUST REPUBLIC HALL, Kwame Nkrumah University of science and Technology, November.

    2013                            “Fabric as Spatial Metaphor” – KNUST MUSEUM, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, March.

    2010                            “Awe from Fibres”, French Ambassador’s Residence, Accra, Ghana, July.

    2009                            “Fluid Flow through Woven Screens”, Alliance Française, Kumasi, Ghana.

    2006                            “Variations on Devotion” –Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

               

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    2020                “Advancing Creative Industries in Ghana” Project Art exhibition- Alliance Francaise, Kumasi, Ghana. January 2020.

    2020                “That Those Beings be not Beings”, Alpha Nova & Gallery Futura, Berlin. August 2020 (could not happen because of Covid outbreak)

    2017                        “Dispersed”- Nubuke Foundation Accra, August

    2017                        “Orderly Disorderly” - Museum of Science and Technology, Accra. June to September.

    2016                           “Habitations” inCornfields in Accra”- Museum of Science and Technology, Accra.

    2016                            “Marks on the Sheet” in “If You Love Me”- Lomotive Shed, Kumasi, Ghana, April to May.

    2015                            “The Scroll” in “The Gown must go to Town…of Art and Philosophical Consciencism”, Museum of Science and Technology,                    Accra. June to July.

    2015                            “Scroll” in “Silence between the Lines, New Ghanaian Contemporary Art”, Kumasi, Ghana.

    2014-2015                   “How Far How Near- The world in the Stedelijk”, Amsterdam

    2014                            “ENGAGE; colour, ritual, material”. The Marlin and Regina Miller Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, October to November.

    2012-2013                   “How Far How Near” in the exhibition “Time Trade and Travel”, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam.

                                        “How Far How Near” in the exhibition “Time Trade And Travel”, Nubuke Foundation, Accra.

    2010                            “Dreaming is a Map”, in the art exhibition “Migration-Identity”, Studio Kurtycz, Osu, Accra, December.

    2009                            “Sweet Pain Space”/The Seat of Life, Goethe-Institute, Accra, November

    2009                            “Inside Out”, Art Omi International Artists residency, New York.

    2009                            “Still 2 troubles One God”: some Contemporary Ghanaian Artists Comment on Modernization, University of Ghana.

    2009                            “Out of Your Mind: Dialogues on Mental Health”, Nubuke Foundation, East Legon, Ghana, February.

    2008                            “Tradition and Innovation: Contemporary Textile Art in Kumasi, Ghana”, Perpich Center for Arts Education, St Paul, Minneapolis, March and April.

     

    Selected Seminars/Workshops/Residencies/Conferences

    2020          Master Trainers Workshop for the roll-out of the Common Core Programme Curriculum (CCP) from 9th -13th November 2020 at the Aknac Hotel, East Legon, Accra.

    2020          “Alchemy In The Art Studio: The Case of KNUST Art”, AFRICA AT NOON, African Studies Program, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON (Cancelled because if Covid outbreak)

    2020          “Advancing Creative Industries in Ghana” Artistic Workshop, Hosted by the Department Of Painting and Sculpture in KNUST, Kumasi Ghana. January, 2020

    2018          PROSA Publishing Workshop hosted by Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme, Rhodes University, South Africa in collaboration with Blaxtarlines, KNUST, Kumasi.

    2018          Symposium and Workshop - Archives That Matter- Digital infrastructures for sharing unshared histories in the colonial archives.

    Presentation Title – Being content: Containment, Habitation and Devotion.

    Venues: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, The Royal Library, the University of Copenhagen & Sorte Firkant, Copenhagen.

    2017          ICIDA 2017 – 6th International Conference on infrastructure development in Africa. ExhibitionTheme: Habitation-Inhabitation: Extending the Habitat.

    2016          “Write Art Right” A Writing Retreat: OFKOB, Art Retreat/Residency Akuse, Ghana; Residency Organizer/ Director and participant, July.

    2015          “ANYA F?L? UGO: INTERDISCIPLINARY AFRICAN ARTS CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF EL ANATSUI AND OBIORA UDECHUKWU.

    Paper presented: “Ghana Must Go”: Of Prophets in Other lands – Migration, Exile or Mobility?

    By Dorothy Amenuke and Bernard Akoi-Jackson at Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.

    2015          ICIDA 2015 - 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA , KNUST.

    Paper presented: “Interactive and perceptual engagement of reconstructed thoughts: A sustainance for our built environment”.

    2015          OFKOB, Art Retreat/Residency– Aburi, Ghana, Residency Organizer/ Director and participant.

    2014          Hand-made paper making workshop, Exortica, Kumasi, Kumasi, Ghana.

    2014          Links and Systems, OFKOB 2014, Art Retreat/Residency, Residency Organizer/ Director and participant– Ofoase Kokobeng, Ghana.

    2013          Hand-made paper making workshop, Bolgatanga Polytechnic, 18th November to 23rd November Bolgatanga, Ghana.

    2013          OFKOB 2013, Artists and Art Retreat/Residency, Organizer/ Director and participant, – Ofoase Kokobeng, Ghana.

    2012          Resources person and instructor, fabric dying workshop, Women’s Studio workshop, 2012 Summer Art Institute, New York.

    2012          Resident of the 2012 fifth session (mix media Class), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine.

    2009          Workshop Director, International Women Artists Workshop, organized by “Art in Aktion” in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, Accra.

    2009          Art Tent Artist/Facilitator, Western Sculpture Park Art Tent Program,   Public Art, St Paul, MN.

    2009          A resident of Art Omi International Artists residency 2009, New York.

    2009          Sansa international Artists workshop 2009, Kumasi, Ghana.


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