Dear Enoch Ma:
OFFICIAL LETTER OF CANDIDATURE
I am writing to you in my capacity as the General Secretary of African Community of Arts Educators (AfriCOAE) to state that your proposal for participation in THE ABETENIM PROJECT: A DESIGN+BUILD-AND-LIVE-IN ARTS VILLAGE, which will run from October 2010 - October 2011 in the Ashanti Region of Ghana has been accepted. The ARchiTecture (art+architecture) project is in partnership with AfriCOAE, FOTA and Nka Foundation, an emerging NGO in Ghana.
As noted, the Abetenim residency project will bring together a cohort of participants (who are artists, architecture, and key others) from Africa and the rest of the world for interchange of ideas and to design and build art+architecture studio cottages out of earth and other materials from the environment. The collaborations will duly commence the development of a model arts village at Abetenim, a rural setting about 15 minutes from Kumasi City. In general, there will be a local master builder and local laborers to your assistance and the cottage will be completed within six-months when the participant could move in to test-live-in own creation for additional 3 or more months according to proposal.
We anticipate a stimulating Ghana experience and hope you will come to interchange your national perspectives and professional experience with your African colleagues. We ask that you plan to arrive at least in late September and to understand that you are responsible for your air tickets, and other own costs to participate in the project. We are not able to provide any financial support for your project costs and allowances, but will assist in any possible way to make the project a success.
Again, it is a pleasure for us to work with our colleagues from diverse lands for the third year in Ghana. If you need any more documents for your sponsor, please let us know. Additional information on the project is at http://afropoets.tripod.com/eta and at www.nkafoundation.org.
We all look forward to continued collaboration with you on the project.
Prof. Barthosa Nkurumeh, AfriCOAE General Secretary and Project Director
Web site: http://afropoets.tripod.com/eta E-mail: africoae@gmail.com
This is going to a very exciting yet challenging project.
ReplyDeleteExciting because this is the roster: PROJECT PARTICIPANTS: András Bakos, PhD Artist, Budapest, Hungary; Djaparov Ulan, Architect, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic; Marianne Theunissen (Artist) and Mikel van Gelderen (Architect), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Patrick Neurus Cheo, Artist. Yaoundé, Cameroon; Baboucarr Etu Ndow, Artist and founder of Tunbung Art Village, Tujering, Gambia; Mohamed El-Sheikh, Architect, Egypt; Malene Pedersen, Sculpture, Installation, Interdisciplinary art projects, Anholt, Denmark; and Enoch Ma, Arcadia, CA, USA/Emmanuel Aheto and Charles Sablah, Accra, Ghana. INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY: Tony ASARE, architect, Accra, Ghana; Lizzetta LeFALLE-COLLINS, PhD Art Historian/ Curator, Los Angeles, CA, USA; John K. GRANDE, Art Writer and Curator, Ontario, Canada; Joseph ASAMOAH-GYAMFI, Director of Earth Construction Development Project (ECODEP). Ghana; Anna MACLEOD Lecturer, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland; Mbacké NIANG, Architect, Researcher and Consultant, Dakar, Senegal. A true international blend of experts and artist foretells of a dynamic conversation to be had.
This is going to be challenging working overseas without a complete sense of the tools or the amount of funding I could work with yet. I am young and experience is growing pain.
Kpedewonu, we understand fear of otherness; that is good reasoning. We suggest "low-budget, quality work". Based on your project and background we will research and help the candidate apply for grants to cover own budget. For additional information go to www.nkafoundation.org.
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