UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State College of Arts and Architecture’s School of Visual Arts will continue its annual Anderson Lecture Series by welcoming Ghanaian-born artist and educator Eugene Ofori Agyei on Tuesday, March 17, at 11:30 a.m. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Foster Auditorium located in the Paterno Library.
Agyei’s interdisciplinary practice explores themes of migration, identity, cultural hybridity and the concept of home through ceramics, textiles, wood, found materials and performance.
Agyei holds a bachelor of arts degree in industrial art from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana and an master of fine arts degree in Ceramics from the University of Florida. He currently is an assistant professor of ceramics and sculpture at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
His works have appeared in group exhibitions at the American Museum of Ceramic Art, the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Harn Museum of Art, Museum of Art-Deland, Art and History Museum of Maitland and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, among others.
During his career, Agyei has been recognized with the Robert C. Turner Teaching Fellowship at New York State College of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, two National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) fellowships, an Artaxis Fellowship, the Zenobia Award and the 2022 Pathways: Carlos Malamud Prize.
The lecture series is supported by the John Muller Anderson endowment, named in honor of the emeritus Evan Pugh research professor of philosophy and the first director of Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities.