rachel ama asaa engmann


critical heritage scholar, practitioner and direct descendant

museums, exhibitions, film and public programming

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MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMMING

2026 Curator, ‘Archeopoetic Fragments: An Afrofuturist Gaze on Converging Times and Territories in the Diaspora,’ by Lara de Paula Passos, The Center, Ghana

2025 ‘Graffiti Street Art, 2025’, Osu, Ghana

2025 Curator, ‘Liberation Aesthetics: Kwame Nkrumah in Image and Imagination, Group Exhibition, The Center, Ghana

2025 Curator, ‘Beautiful Nonsense’ by Kwame Lanto, The Center, Ghana

2025 Curator, ‘Letters in Motion: A Calligraffiti Art Performance’, National Mosque & The Center, Ghana

2025 Co-Curator, ‘Osu Gbɔmɔtso/Human Tree: A Journey with The Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project (CAHP) by Kusi Ampem Darko (NANA Ananse)’, with Kusi Ampem Darko (NANA Ananse), The Center, Ghana

2025 Co-Producer, The Center: Restoring Community, Heritage, and Creativity, Documentary film, Ghana

2025 Co-Producer, Murals of Memory, Documentary film, Ghana

2023-2024 Director, Historic House Mural Project Phase I & II, Ghana

2023 Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project Art Exhibition, Christiansborg Castle, Ghana

2019 Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project’s Community Outreach Day, Christiansborg Castle, Ghana

2018 ‘Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project’, Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, British Government and British High Commission Delegation Visit, Christiansborg Castle, Ghana

2018 Instructor, Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project Education Workshop for Community and Educators, Ghana

2014-2015 Advisor, African Art Exhibition, University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, US

2013 Advisor, Exhibition, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, US

2013 Curatorial Researcher, Afro-Cuban Art Exhibition, ‘Things that Cannot Be Seen Any Other Way: The Art of Manuel Mendive’, Curated by Dr. Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz, the California African American Museum, Los Angeles and The Frost Museum, Miami, US

2010 Museum Education and Outreach Specialist, Danish National Museum & University of Ghana, Denmark & Ghana

2009 Advisor, UNESCO Commission for Culture, The Government of Ghana, Ghana

2008-2015 Advisor, Contemporary Art, Private Collector, Ghana


2011 Interview, ‘Preservation of Islamic-Asante Heritage’, Kapital Radio, Ghana


2007-2009 Advisor, Art in Social Structures, Ghana & Switzerland

2004 Researcher, Columbia University, US


2004 Archivist, Weeksville Historical Society, US


2003 Archivist, Office of the President, Columbia University, US


2002 Researcher, Knopf, UK

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

2025 Osu Gbɔmɔtso/Human Tree: A Journey with The Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project (CAHP)

Kusi Ampem Darko (NANA Ananse) translated into Ga by Dr. Sarah Dorgbadzi

CONVERSATIONS

2026 ‘Archeopoetic Fragments: An Afrofuturist Gaze on Converging Times and Territories in the Diaspora,’ with Lara de Paula Passos, Creative Dialogues, The Center, Ghana

2025 ‘Liberation Aesthetics: Kwame Nkrumah in Image and Imagination, with Alfred Aheto, Ernest Atusukofi Akaba, Nicholas Nii Amasah, Max Abidu De Campos, Kusi Apem Darko (NANA Ananse), Yussif Hussain (Skido), Isaac Nabila, Nanoff, Atey Desmond Tetty, Creative Dialogues, The Center, Ghana

2025 ‘Beautiful Nonsense’ with Kwame Lanto, Creative Dialogues, The Center, Ghana

2025 ‘Letters in Motion: A Calligraffiti Art Performance’, with Hashim Hussein (Mozzay), Alhadji Sky, Yussif Hussein (Skido), Nabila Shareau, Serlom Amerkofia, Abubakar Saddiq, Creative Dialogues, The Center, Ghana

2025 ‘Osu Gbɔmɔtso/Human Tree: A Journey with The Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project (CAHP) by Kusi Ampem Darko (NANA Ananse)’, co-curated with Kusi Ampem Darko (NANA Ananse), The Center, Ghana

CURATORIAL GRANTS

2021 Exhibition Design and Curatorial Workshop Grant, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, US

FILM AND TELEVISION

2023 ‘Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project’, Dentaa Show, Ghana

2022 ‘Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project’, The Art of Healing Descendant Pain, Canada

2021 ‘Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project’, 1000 Years A Slave, Channel 5, UK (to be released in the US 2022)

2008 ‘Timbuktu to Cape Town’, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, US