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When: 
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Where: 
EPI / Riley Temple Gallery at the Portlock Black Cultural Center
Presenter: 
Tafa
Price: 
Free
TAFA is an award-winning artist whose paintings have been exhibited and collected in Europe, Japan, Canada, South America, Africa and the US. His abstract oil paintings make strong social, political, religious statements in audacious brilliant colors. His works are in many permanent public and private collections including the Superior Court, Washington, D.C, Barclays Bank, Sparrow Hospital, Michigan, Shell Co, Ghana’s National Museum, Carver Federal Bank and former New York City Mayor, David N. Dinkins, Bryant Gumbel and the late Johnny Cochran. TAFA obtained a BFA degree from the College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. He lives in Harlem, NY. We will open the exhibit with a reception on Friday, February 8th at 4:30pm in the Portlock Black Cultural Center. The artist will offer a brief talk about the work and his creative process.
Sponsored by: 
Office of Intercultural Development, Experimental Printmaking Institute

Contact information

Name: 
John McKnight
Phone: 
5320
Email: 
mcknighj@lafayette.edu