Beatrice Opokua Atencah
- John M. Anderson Assistant Teaching Professor of Art
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Fiber Sculpture
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Installation art
313 Visual Arts Building
- Email boa5223@psu.edu
- Phone 814-863-5349
- Pronouns She/Her/Hers
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Biography
Originally from Ghana in West Africa, Atencah creates fiber sculpture and installation artworks that explores the nexus of fiber and metal histories within Africa and America in relation to cultural acculturation. Her artistic sensitivities and interrogations are profoundly informed by transformation and adaptation through explorations of patinated copper, married with woven Kente strips made in Bonwire, Kumasi- Ghana.
This has included exhibitions and curatorial projects spanned nationally and internationally across USA, Turkey and UK including “Between Two Spaces” (Mary Warren Collection) at IU Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (2024), A Touch of Healing, permanently owned by Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis (2024), “Tenuous Threads” (Atlantic Gallery - New York), & BUTTER (yearly exhibit) coupled with numerous publications, awards and grants in Canvas Rebel, Handweaver's Guild of America (HGA), & Artist Talk Magazine (UK).
Atencah's current curatorial project "Interlacing in Textiles" is on view at the Eskenazi Museum of Art in Bloomington, Indiana where she obtained her MFA in Fibers. She has 12 years teaching experience in studio art of which 4 years were taught informally at basic schools through Ghana Education Services and the remaining formally in KNUST - Ghana & Indiana University Bloomington with topical interests in Fashion Design, Textile Art & Technology, 2D & Studio Arts
As a prolific fiber sculptor, she is constantly researching on the "Why’s" in the "Normal.”
Selected Works
