PROJECTS
Projects gathers the specific work produced through Ọkpara House: realized, ongoing and future initiatives in publishing, design, hospitality, research and conversation. The House provides the intellectual and cultural ground; these projects carry that ground into public form.
WHY WE COLLABORATE
To bring consequential ideas and projects into the public domain while preserving the integrity, authorship and cultural foundations from which they arise.
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Ọkpara House has always worked internationally. Across our projects, we have collaborated with artists, designers, researchers, architects, producers, fabricators and manufacturers in Nigeria, the United States, Latvia, China, Iran, Ukraine, France, Haiti and Hong Kong.
This global method is not a departure from our cultural foundations. It allows different forms of knowledge, technology, craft and production to meet under a cultural direction rooted in Ọkpara House.
The work may be international in its making, but its intellectual purpose remains clear: to recover our authority over our cultural narratives and reimagine, for contemporary times, what it means to be African.
FIELDS OF PRACTICE
Each active field opens into its current projects. Developing fields will appear when substantive work is ready to enter the public record.
PERMANENT PROJECT · CULTURE & MAKING
Making cultural memory tangible through contemporary paper interpretations of inherited Igbo visual forms.
Explore the projectCOLLABORATE
We welcome thoughtful proposals from people whose practices share the intellectual, cultural and ethical foundations of Ọkpara House. Public-benefit collaborations may be developed through Afamefuna Inc., our nonprofit arm.
Collaborate through Afamefuna Inc.SUPPORT A PROJECT
Individuals, institutions, foundations and responsible organizations may support publications, exhibitions, research and public cultural projects through Afamefuna Inc. when appropriate. Support sustains the mission; it does not direct it.
Support through Afamefuna Inc.Culture becomes living when it can generate what comes next.
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