Upcoming Events at City of Casselberry
Tue Jan 17, 9:00 AM - Fri Mar 24, 4:00 PM
Hosted By: City of Casselberry
120 Quail Pond Circle, Casselberry, FL 32707
Hosted By: City of Casselberry
Community: Altamonte Springs
Description
Eugene Ofori Agyei solo exhibition at the Casselberry Sculpture House Reception: Saturday, February 18, 2023 On View: January 17 – March 24 Monday-Friday, 9-4p.m.
Event Details
Eugene Ofori Agyei (1993) is a ceramic sculptor, fiber and installation artist and an educator originally from Ghana living in Gainesville, Florida. He graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana with a BA in Industrial Art, majoring in Ceramics in 2018. Prior to his MFA at the University of Florida, he was assigned as teaching and research assistant in the same school where he received his BA for one year. Eugene is the 2020/2021 recipient of the University of Florida Grinter Fellowship award and 2022 Artaxis Fellowship award. In April 2022, the Morean Arts Center named Agyei as one of its Fresh Squeezed 6: Emerging Artists in Florida. He won the Pathways 2022: Carlos Malamud Prize at University of Central Florida Gallery and Rollins Museum of Art which comes with a $10,000 prize and a solo exhibition in summer 2023. He has another upcoming solo exhibition at Art Center Sarasota (FL) in the Spring of 2023.
