Ife Nii-Owoo

Ife Nii-Owoo is a visual artist, graphic designer, and educator. She studied African Visual Arts at the Institute of African Studies in Accra, Ghana, and lived in London, England and Africa for nine years. She holds a BFA from Syracuse University and a Post Graduate Certificate in Design from the London School of Communications (England). In 1978 she was a candidate for a Masters of African Visual Arts at the Institute of African Studies in Accra, Ghana. Born and raised in Philadelphia, to which she returned in 1981, she has been part of a ground-breaking generation of African American women artists and designers pushing through barriers, part of and influenced by the nation’s Black Arts and AfroFuturists movements.