The Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA) is a Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

ian visual arts

Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...

 foundation that aims to create an active network of artists and provide a critical forum for the development of contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 in Ghana. Based in Accra

Accra

Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...

, the FCA was founded in 2004. The FCA office is located in the W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture in the Cantonments neighborhood of Accra.

Membership

The Foundation for Contemporary Art currently has about 100 members — artists, critics, collectors, art enthusiasts — as well as an advisory board and an executive board. The Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana actively recruits new members and welcomes all practising artists and people interested in contemporary arts.

Objectives

The objectives of the Foundation for Contemporary Art are fourfold:

1. Organize exhibitions, seminars, workshops and publications to raise the awareness of and develop critical thinking about contemporary art in Ghana
2. Establish a resource centre of arts-related texts available for consultation, research and documentation
3. Create a website to promote contemporary art in Ghana
4. Establish a public database of artists, arts organizations, art businesses, galleries and others interested in contemporary art in Ghana