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Daniel Kojo Schrade
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On sabbatical fall 2025 and spring 2026.
Daniel Kojo Schrade
Professor of Art
Daniel Kojo Schrade studied in Germany and Spain. He received an M.F.A. from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany.
His paintings and installations have been presented internationally, including at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Oaxaca, Mexico; Alliance Francais in Kumasi, Ghana; Haus der Kunst in Munchen, Germany; Muzej Grada in Rijeka, Croatia; and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. He has taught painting at the Kwame Nkrumah University in Ghana, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and the State Academy Rotenfels in Germany.
His work includes repeated motifs such as the “Afronaut” figure, and textual elements in the cycle entitled “Brother Beethoven,” a series he started in 1999.
Daniel Kojo Schrade was a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College and has received grants and awards from the Cusanuswerk Foundation in Bonn, Germany, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and the District Government of Bavaria. His work is represented in various permanent collections such as those of the Museo de Cuenca, Spain; MACO, Mexico; the Bayerische Staatsgemaeldesammlung, Munich; Collection Diehl, Silvaplana-Swiss; and Collection Morat, Freiburg-Germany.
Recent and Upcoming Courses
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This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of painting, such as composition, value, and color. Students will learn about material and the technical issues of painting. Drawings will often be produced in tandem with paintings in order to illuminate visual ideas. We will work with water based and oil based paint on various surfaces. Besides creating individual paintings, students will collectively prepare and work on large-scale canvases. This course will develop from individual representational set-ups towards collective, abstract work. Regular class critiques will assist in examining formal composition principles. While we will discuss historic work examples from a post-colonial perspective, the course will focus on the work of non-western contemporary artists. Readings and artist presentations will be assigned. Assignments require students to work independently outside of class. Keywords:Painting, Studio Art, Drawing, Contemporary Art, Color
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"The Repair" is preceded by the injury. Injuries on the landscape, the environment, on objects, architecture, on the body, on the psyche. In this studio art course students are going to develop multimedia art projects based on their engagement in questions concerning the human impact on land, objects, waters, architecture, plants, animals, and humans. A thorough research phase, lectures, and exhibition visits in the beginning of the semester will require students to engage with the work of artists who are contemplating the human, social, and environmental havocs of our times and their intersections with superiority, destruction, colonialism, displacement, commerce, migration, appropriation, power structures, etc. By writing and presenting course papers, students are first going to collaboratively research the work of artists like Mona Hatoum, Kader Attia, Philip Guston, Jean Dubuffet, El Anatsui, Satch Hoyt, Yinka Shonibare, Ghada Amer, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Wangechi Mutu, Anish Kapoor, David Hammons, Joseph Beuys - and then draft, carry out, and curate their own studio art projects Keywords:Studio Art, Multimedia Art, Research, Critical Art Theory, Curation
