The Department of Art & Design's Ceramics Area is hosting Eugene Agyei, currently a teaching fellow at Alfred University, for an artist talk at 4:30 PM on Tuesday, April 8th in the downstairs crit space of the Studio Arts Building, Room 101.

Eugene Ofori Agyei, a Ghanaian-born artist and educator based in New York, explores the emotional connections between Ghana and the U.S. through his art. A graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University in Ghana (BA, Industrial Art) and the University of Florida (MFA, with honors), he has received numerous accolades, including the 2020–2021 University of Florida Grinter Fellowship, the 2022 National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Graduate Student Fellowship, the 2022 NCECA Multicultural Fellowship, the 2023 Harold Garde Graduate Studio Art Award, and the 2024 Robert C. Turner Teaching Fellowship at New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University. He was nominated for the 2022 and 2023 Outstanding Master’s and Professional International Student Awards at the University of Florida and the winner of the Pathways 2022: Carlos Malamud Prize at the Rollins Museum of Art, which comes with a $10,000 prize.

The artist has shown his work in both group and solo exhibitions across Florida as well as in Maine, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, Virginia, Connecticut, California, Utah and New York. Internationally, his work has been exhibited in Turkey and recently attracted the attention of prominent German art collector Franz, Duke of Bavaria, who acquired three of Agyei’s works and has ultimately committed to placing them in museums. Agyei had his first solo museum exhibition at the Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Orlando, and was recently shown in group exhibitions at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), Museum of Art-Deland, the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Art & History Museum of Maitland, The Harn Museum of Art and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA).

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