Ama BE Studio

Ama BE is an interdisciplinary artist who explores dimensions of embodiment through performance, screen-based media, and handmade paper sculpture. Through the lenses of her Ghanaian heritage and American upbringing, she takes interest in the porous distinctions between materiality and sentience; indigeneity and memory as it relates to personal, familial, and forced migrations.  In her recurrent use of tobacco, sugarcane, palm oil, water, and lace in practice, she interrogates materials with antithetical links to hegemonic trade, spirituality, and healing. Her research-informed practice questions the effects of commodification on these bodies as she retraces and reimagines their form and function. 

Ama’s past performances have employed ecstatic touch, Ghanaian cuisine, and flora as mediums to challenge visibility, and highlight cultural distortions.  Her new work thus uses layering, repetition, and simplistic gesture to experiment with themes of presence and embodiment, and explore sentience as a medium.

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Groundswell

Managed over 21 Studio Programs, 30 community-centered public art projects throughout New  York City’s 5 boroughs, 

Managed Studio Programs budgets of over $550,000 in total and maintained funder  compliance. 

Steered community partnerships including district legislators, law enforcement, private and  public funding institutions, local schools, community leaders and facility managers.  

Contracted Lead and Assistant artists to implement studio programs and public projects. 

Recruited and hired over 300 youth apprentice artists from under resourced communities,  to staff projects and provide support in-studio.

Program Manager

Harlem Children's Zone

•	Designed Fashion Studies program for High School youth
•	Wrote curriculum for and taught Narrative Fashion and Business of Fashion courses
•	Key stakeholder for social service intervention, conflict resolution and academic support
•	Initiated Young Women’s Group peer support elective, designed for young women of color to promote positive body image, affirmational speech, long term visioning as a youth led bulling intervention

Program Specialist

Latin American Youth Center

•	Provided premiere Bilingual/ELL student support programs for international families at Roosevelt Senior High School – 60% Spanish or Amharic speaking student body
•	Design and implement language access programs for students and families 
•	Responsible for budget keeping, Data entry, reporting, grant compliance, contractor payroll, program funds requests.
•	Hire and supervise LAYC staff, contractors and volunteers of up 20
•	Developed  Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) curriculum, Initiated ELL academic Tutoring programs, Roadmap to Graduation (R2G) workshops, Capoeira fitness program,
•	Designed and implemented Summer Youth Employment Programs, ages 14-20:
2010 ABCs of Civic Engagement: Advocacy, Beauty & Care (30 youth)
2011 Readiness thru Intensive Training & Enrichment (RITE) Program (60 youth) 
•	Provide crisis intervention and case management when needed.

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