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Please join us for our 127th Benefit Reception.
Sam Adoquei, world renown artist, teacher and author will give a presentation
Evolution and advancement of women artists: Highest talents are not for certain genders but are gifted to all. Today's women artists now prove history wrong
Samuel Adoquei is the author of Strand Books #1 Bestseller “How Successful Artists Study”, as well as “Origin of Inspiration”, “Skin Tones in Art”, and a Pamphlet entitled “Brushstrokes in Paintings”.
A Ghanaian immigrant whose oil painting is a language through which he communicates, inviting viewers to enmesh themselves in the core of the work and the feelings they invoke.
Versatility of technique underscores the scope and impact of his subject matter. His art contains and honors a multitude of human experiences, including his own journey from Ghanaian art student, to sign and billboard painter in Nigeria, and then working artist, educator, and author in the United States, where he arrived in 1987. While still a student, he won several international awards, including gold medal in oil painting, and best traditional oil painting at the Knickerbockers Artist Annual International Exhibition.
Sam was one of the youngest artists, and the first African Artist, to teach at all the major art institutions in New York City, including The Art Students League of NY, and the National Academy of Fine Arts.
His paintings have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC as well as other museums and galleries in the US and abroad. Most recently at the Long Island Museum in Finding Hidden Treasures.
His “Skin Tones in Art”, argues that the beauty of the human race is the last frontier in the pursuit of peace love and harmony. He founded the Skintones Project, an organization dedicated to discussing the true gift of evolution in human beauty.
Every year we donate the proceeds to the Travel and Research fund for the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
$35 minimum tax deductible donation per person.
As a special part of this event, there will be a Silent Auction for artworks done by CLWAC Members
Bidding will close at 7:30.
Additional donations are welcome and very much appreciated.
https://www.clwac.org/Donation-Page
