Arts Speaker Series Spring 2025
Turner Teaching Fellow Eugene Agyei
The Arts Speaker Series is sponsored by the Visiting Artists & Scholars Committee and is held once per month on the Third Thursday of the month at 4:30pm during the 2024-2025 Academic Year, unless otherwise indicated.About the Artist: Eugene Ofori Agyei is a Ghanaian-born artist and educator who graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, with a BA in Industrial Art, majoring in Ceramics, in 2018 and received his MFA from the University of Florida in 2023. He is the recipient of the 2020–2021 University of Florida Grinter Fellowship and the 2023 Harold Garde Graduate Studio Art Award. He was also nominated for the 2022 and 2023 Outstanding Master’s and Professional International Student Awards at the University of Florida. The artist has extensively exhibited his work in both group and solo exhibitions across the US. Eugene had his first solo museum show at the Rollins Museum of Art, Florida, in 2023. Internationally, his work has been exhibited in Turkey and his pieces have recently attracted the attention of prominent German art collector Franz, Duke of Bavaria, who acquired three of Agyei’s works and committed to placing them in museums.
The Arts Speaker Series is sponsored by the Visiting Artists & Scholars Committee and is held once per month on the Third Thursday of the month at 4:30pm during the 2024-2025 Academic Year, unless otherwise indicated.