Kwame Boama Mensa-Aborampa Open Market and Girl Power Songs by Erica Bauer
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OH Art is excited to announce a collaboration with Erica Bauer’s Girl Power Songs project and local artist Kwame Boama Mensa-Aborampa’s paintings in an exhibition entitled “Open Market.”
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Girl Power Songs are educational, empowering, and entertaining songs about women of power who have changed the world providing an opportunity for all children to sing the change they want to see in the world.
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Born Bernard Mensah in 1978, Kwame Boama Mensa-Aborampa chose to change his name to fit his heritage and is known by his signed name B. Mensa. This painter was born to Ghanaian parents in the Ashanti region of Ghana but was raised by a single mother whose efforts and resilience propelled him to be who he is today.
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Accompanying his mother to the market, Mensa observed how artistically the women in the market went about their daily operations; swinging their waist adorned with beads beckoning their customers to come purchase whatever that they had to sell. Observing the beautiful, well-rounded and industrious women in the market captivated him so much that he started drawing those images on slates and whatever smooth surface he came by as a growing child. Mensa’s paintings today pay tribute to the industrious women around the world.
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