EP #49 | Sunday, April 28th featuring Ato Ribeiro and Derrick Ofosu in conversation with Maboula Soumahoro.  

ADAMA Arts Salon is a series of conversations featuring contemporary artists, curators, scholars, and more from across the African Diaspora.

Join us for ADAMA's upcoming virtual Arts Salon. Maboula Soumahoro to moderate a conversation with Ato Ribeiro and Derrick.O.Boateng on how Diaspora narratives are a major theme in their artistic practice. 

ADAMA Arts Salon | Ep #49

April 28, 2024

2-3 pm ET

Register to attend virtually! The live stream link will be sent to all RSVPs via email. 

About Moderator: Maboula Soumahoro is an associate professor in the English Department of the University of Tours and president of the Black History Month Association, dedicated to celebrating Black history and cultures. A specialist in the field of Africana Studies, she has conducted research and taught in several universities and prisons in the United States and France. She is the author of Le Triangle et l’Hexagone, réflexions sur une identité noire (La Découverte, 2021), translated in English by Dr. Kaiama L. Glover as Black Is the Journey, Africana the Name (Polity, 2021) and prefaced by Saidiya Hartman. This book was distinguished by the FetKann! Maryse Condé literary prize in 2020. She was the inaugural Villa Albertine Resident in Atlanta (2021-2022) ; Mellon Arts Project International Visiting Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University and Visiting Faculty at Bennington College (2022-2023) and served as a member of the National Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery (2013-2017).

Ato Ribeiro: A multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media including sculptural installation, drawing and printmaking. He was born in Philadelphia, PA and spent his formative years in Accra, Ghana. He is currently a studio artist at the Atlanta Contemporary and recently served as a 2022/2023 MOCA GA WAP Fellow, a 2022 Atlanta Artadia Awardee and a MINT 2021 Leap Year Artist.  Ribeiro was the 2017 Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Emerging Artist Award recipient, Artist in Resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany, and received Fellowships at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, The Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, ME among others. He earned his B.A. from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and his M.F.A. in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Derrick.O.Boateng: An award winning fine art photographer and founder of the African Art movement ‘Hueism’. Inspired by the wisdom of African proverbs and the richness of the continent, he creates vibrant images that veer between visual poetry and color therapy. Boateng employs his unique chromatic language, stark silhouettes, which translate as lessons learned from proverbial storytelling to challenge negative and limited perceptions of African culture. Since the beginning of Derrick’s artistic journey, his photography and post-production have been entirely iPhone-based. Boateng’s work brims with energy, color and meaning, which are also the leading principles of Hueism.