Omar Ba, Same Dream, 2018.
Youth Workshop
For youth ages 15–25.
Inspiring young people through the exploration of contemporary art, and connecting them to community, global, and social issues that affect all of our lives.
Join us February 26, 2021
5PM – 7PM!
This program is hosted on Zoom by invitation through Action Dignity.
For questions or more information please email Krizia Carlos:
krizia.carlos@actiondignity.org
Omar Ba’s work engages with some of the most urgent issues of our time: the growing inequality of wealth and power globally, forced migration and our changing relationship with the natural world. His penchant for depicting personal narratives alongside collective ones speaks to the in-between condition of his work, as he splits his time between Dakar, Senegal and Geneva, Switzerland, and blends the visual texture of both places through his practice. Ba draws from and intertwines a range of elements— the historical and contemporary, figurative and abstract imagery—from African and European cultures.
Same Dream brings together several of Ba’s paintings depicting dictators and authority figures, who lead corrupt and violent regimes across the African continent and in other parts of the world, particularly where the legacies of colonialism persist.
Additional Resources
Watch Omar Ba Studio Tour and Artist Talk, in conversation with Justine Kohleal
This creative leadership workshop is a collaboration between:
Special thanks to our youth leaders from:
Youth PLACE, The Written Revolutions, and Antyx Community Arts.
“The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.”