MAKING TO MARKET
Teaching and learning a mutual partnership that opens possibilities to new ideas and outcomes. I relish an environment for creative minds that fosters an understanding of a community’s beauty and cross-cultural complexities. All are endowed with different gifts and talents to co-exist with one another, I believe—skills, when harnessed and nurtured through virtues of diversity and inclusion.
I try to represent ideas through my umbrella of making. Mixing mediums, and ideas from different geographic locations to create
I try to represent ideas through my umbrella of making. Mixing mediums, and ideas from different geographic locations to create
African Modern
Part of my job at Aid to Artisans Ghana was to safeguard sacred, ritualistic concepts from appropriation for western markets. My experience from working with craft people, businesses, and designers nurtured my interest in the craft industry, and it opened up possibilities for me to explore design and making in America.
Design to Market
Working with craft people in Ghana taught me about using scarce resources and sustaining what’s available. This design and production method was a symbiotic process where they learned their skill set and developed appropriate technologies to spend up their production methods. Western markets for handmade are time-sensitive and sometimes require some aspect of mass-producing. Attempt to navigate between mass and custom products
Workshops in Ghana
Working with craft people in Ghana, and West Africa, taught me much about using scarce resources and sustaining what’s available.
This design and production method was a symbiotic process where a learned their skill set and developed appropriate technologies to spend up their production methods.
In western markets handmade products are time-sensitive and sometimes require some aspect of mass-producing. My task was to translate that process seamlessly from design to market.
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