Daniel Kojo Schrade

Professor of Art

Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies

dksHA@hampshire.edu

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Daniel (Kojo) Schrade

Arts Barn 2nd floor

413.559.5794

On Leave of Absence Fall 2020 - Spring 2021.

Daniel Kojo Schrade, professor of art, 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/Oaxaca-Mexico; Alliance Francais/Kumasi-Ghana; Haus der Kunst/Munchen-Germany; Muzej Grada/Rijeka-Croatia; and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, MA. He has taught painting at the Kwame Nkrumah University/Kumasi-Ghana; the Academy of Fine Arts Munich; and the State Academy Rotenfels-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/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

Vagabonding Images: Introductory and Intermediate Studio Art Practice
This course invites students to investigate the indistinct borders between two-dimensional art, multi-media art installations, and performative art forms. With a focus on abstraction and non-representational studio art practice, students will learn how to develop an individual approach to a subject matter through research, assigned readings, and digital image lectures. While exploring visual culture from a transcultural perspective, we will as well address issues such as composition and color theory.
Large Scale Drawing: Intermediate Drawing Projects
This course will focus on expanded definitions and practices of marking space. The course intent is to contextualize and investigate a wide variety of drawing methods including more traditional practices (marks on paper), as well as spatially focused practices; for example, marking the landscape, and process oriented approaches including the body, action and the passage of time. This course will be built around three guided, yet self-directed projects. Studio work will be divided into three equal parts - Research (reading, writing, looking), Making (drawing, collecting, experimenting), and Critique.
Scavenging Color & Light: Introduction to Representational Painting and Collective, Abstract Work
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. The course will focus on the work of non-western contemporary artists and we will discuss historic work examples from a post-colonial perspective. Readings and one paper on an artist to be assigned will be part of this class. Assignments require students to work independently outside of class.
The Way Things Go: Advanced Visual Art Projects
Geared towards studio art concentrators in their third and fourth year, this course will offer space to explore production and discourse strategies concerning interdisciplinary visual art productions on an upper Division II and Division III level. The goal of this course is to conceptualize, develop, present and reflect one larger project in relation to contemporary, western and non-western art productions. Modern and postmodern movements will be introduced as a means of contextualizing studio work. Classes will consist of individual and group critiques, and studio work. Additional class time will be spent reviewing readings, lectures, films and exhibitions. Students will have to present a paper on an artist to be assigned.