Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian Artist who sold his artwork for $1Million and blew the money on 6 planes.
Mr Ibrahim Mahama acquired the six used-aircrafts and converted them into classrooms for kids in Redclay studios, one of his art centres in Ghana.
Redclay Studio is an artistic project space, exhibition and research hub, cultural repository, artists’ residency located in Tamale, Ghana.
It provides opportunity for locals to experience art, be artistes and showcase the evolution of art in Ghana.
The institution is dedicated to the exploration of new forms of imaginations. Redclay seeks to expand art and its experiences across society.
All programmes are completely free to the public. It opens to the public and schools for tours and educational programmes( by appointments). Redclay studio is partnered by SCSSA Tamale ( Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art ), a cultural institution dedicated to retrospectives of modern art and large group exhibitions and Nkrumah Voli-ni.
Source: A1Radioonline.com/ 101.1MHz/ Ghana
