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ArticleHuman Anatomy and Environmental Sustainability Through Art
The human body is the tree. The tree is the human body. Both are fragments of the same universe, breathing the same breath. On Nipadua as not a metaphor but a revelation — and what that demands of a practice.
NewsChale Wote Street Art Festival — Ananse Returns to Labadi Beach
Throwback to the 2023 festival: fire art, bark sculpture and the Ojah performance that brought the crowd to a halt on the Labadi shoreline. A recap of the work and what it meant to bring Nipadua into the street.
AnnouncementGrant Series No. 001 Now Open — The Reclaimed-Material Grant
Applications are open for the inaugural Nipa Dua Foundation grant: $5,000 plus studio support for a Ghanaian or diaspora artist working in repurposed material. Window: September 1 – November 15, 2025.
ArticleKnowledge and Order in Chaos
From the 2020 Chale Wote performance: on what it means to make art in a time of ecological collapse, to impose form on material that insists on decomposing, and to find beauty in the entropy.
NewsNFC as Storytelling — Every Garment Carries Its Own Memory
The NIPADUA clothing line pairs wearable art with NFC — each piece tagged with a chip that connects the wearer to the story of the material: where the bark came from, who wove the cloth, what it remembers.
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