Lady Julia Treats 2026 Asantehene Art Awards Laureates to Cocktail Welcome
The Chief Patron of the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Art Awards, Lady Julia Osei Tutu, has hospitably welcomed the laureates for this year’s edition to Kumasi with a Cocktail reception.
The wife of the Occupant of the Golden Stool hosted the eight awardees and other dignitaries at her private residence.
The reception took place on May 12, 2026, ahead of the main event to honour them on May 13, 2026, at the Manhyia Palace.
Present at the reception were all eight laureates, namely the founder of the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Red Clay, and Nkrumah Volini in Tamale, Ibrahim Mahama; installation artist and painter based in New York, Yaw Owusu; painter Victor Butler; and painter Larry Otoo.
The rest are portrait artist Afia Prempeh; the first contemporary artist from Seychelles, Leon Radegonde; African Curator at the British Museum, Julie Hudson; and curator Osei Bonsu.
Gracing the occasion were the UNESCO Representative to Ghana, Edmond Moukala N’Gouemo and the German Ambassador to Ghana, Daniel Krull, the Director of the Manhyia Palace Museum, Ivor Agyeman-Dua and others.
Story by Hajara Fuseini
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