Ghanaian sculptor and C.E.O of Accents and Arts, Constance Swaniker is on a journey to transform Ghana’s visual art industry.
With the establishment of the Design and Technology Institute, she hopes to train many young people in the field that has been disregarded for many years.
The female sculptor in an interview with Vome studios opened up on her childhood and processes leading to her love for artistic designs.
Constance Swaniker disclosed that she struggled with mathematics and saw herself drawing closer to the arts.
She is grateful to her mum for discovering her talent and allowing her pursue her dream.
“The more I struggled with maths, the more more I found solace in paper, crayon and sketching”
“…my mother picked up one of the things that I had sketched and it dawned on her that I was very different”, she said.
Constance Swaniker also recounts her time as a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and how her internship at a carpentry shop shaped her desire to establish an institute.
