Woori Festival
This 3-day festival fosters artistic innovation and community pride. Attendees experience live weaving demonstrations, skill transfer workshops, music concerts, poetry performances, film screenings, and art exhibitions.
Experience the 2025 Woori Festival:
View the programme details here and the event gallery here.
Experience the 2025 Woori Festival:
View the programme details here and the event gallery here.
Overview
2025 Artists
“Woori 2025 Festival:
The role of collaboration in harnessing the potential of weaving for socio-economic development.”
Woori Festival 2025 brings together artists, weavers, designers, performers, and cultural practitioners whose work is grounded in collective practice and shared knowledge. Held at the Nubuke Foundation Centre for Textiles and Clay in Loho near Wa, the fifth edition of the festival is guided by the theme “The role of collaboration in harnessing the potential of weaving for socio-economic development.” The participating artists approach weaving not only as a material practice, but as a social and economic framework shaped by cooperation, intergenerational exchange, and community resilience.
At the heart of the festival are master weavers and weaving associations from Nadowli, Nandom, and Wa, whose practices span traditional looms, contemporary adaptations, and sustainable approaches to textile production. Through live demonstrations, workshops, and skill-exchange sessions, these practitioners share techniques and knowledge that highlight weaving’s enduring relevance to livelihoods, cultural identity, and local economies in the Upper West Region.
Complementing this are artistic contributions across textile, fibre, installation, performance, film, sound, fashion, and poetry by artists including Jemima Fordjour, Blanche Boni-Mississo, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Simon Bowman Jnr, King David Osabutey, Fran, Dzidefo Amegatsey, and Enoch Laryea Nii-Adjei. Working alongside local communities, children, youth, and members of the visually impaired and deaf communities, the artists of Woori 2025 explore collaboration as both method and message—positioning weaving as a living practice capable of shaping more inclusive and sustainable futures.
View the event gallery here.
Blanche Bonni-Mississo
Karin Altmann
AFROSCOPE
Enoch Laryea
Nana Yaa Asare-Boadu
Salim Wumpini Fuseini
Dzidefo Amegatsey
Simon Bowman Jnr
Emmanuel Tieku
King David Osabutey
Jemima Fordjour
Fran
Blanche Boni-Mississo
Blanche Boni-Mississo (b. 1998, Accra, Ghana) is a visual artist whose practice explores participation, atmosphere, and relational encounters. Working across painting, drawing, collage, and installation, she creates immersive environments that invite viewers to move, gather, and respond. Her work often unfolds through performative gestures and spatial interventions, using colour, light, and figure to activate shared moments of presence.
Flowers frequently appear in her work as symbolic and playful forms—rendered through bold contours, animated colour, and spontaneous mark-making—while unconventional surfaces such as polythene rolls become sites for experimentation and interaction. Through these materials and methods, Boni-Mississo questions how audiences engage with art, each other, and the spaces they inhabit.
She lives and works between Accra and Kumasi, and is currently completing a BFA in Painting and Sculpture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Alongside her studio practice, she has facilitated art workshops for children, reflecting her ongoing interest in accessibility, collective experience, and learning through making.
Flowers frequently appear in her work as symbolic and playful forms—rendered through bold contours, animated colour, and spontaneous mark-making—while unconventional surfaces such as polythene rolls become sites for experimentation and interaction. Through these materials and methods, Boni-Mississo questions how audiences engage with art, each other, and the spaces they inhabit.
She lives and works between Accra and Kumasi, and is currently completing a BFA in Painting and Sculpture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Alongside her studio practice, she has facilitated art workshops for children, reflecting her ongoing interest in accessibility, collective experience, and learning through making.
Painting
Installation
Installation
Karin Altmann
Karin Altmann is an Austrian artist, researcher and senior lecturer at the Department of Textile Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Beside her lectures – with a focus on dyeing with natural dyes, textile printing, and textile production fields – she has been developing and participating in a series of transcultural projects with international partners from Kyrgyzstan, Bhutan, Japan, Mexico, Mali and Ghana, and also in art projects with children, people with disabilities, refugees, and women in psychological or social need. As an artist and researcher, she explores the textile element as a specific mediality, with regard to its appearance and significance in art, culture and society, but also to its potential as a networking model, while theory and practice always relate to, extend and deepen each other.
Textiles
Research
Research
AFROSCOPE
AFROSCOPE (Isaac Nana Opoku) has been practicing as a creative professional for over a decade, working as a multidisciplinary artist and designer, and as a social entrepreneur. In his work he explores a range of themes including decolonization, oneness, information overload, and most recently the concept of deep adaptation. He engages with these topics in very experimental and speculative ways, and utilises both digital technologies and traditional analog mediums in his process. Community and collaboration are also core aspects of his practice: He is a part of various creative teams and cultural organisations, and also works closely with indigenous artisans across Ghana. He has also worked with brands like Apple and Adobe, and has co-founded impact organisations such as House of Stole, Cocoa360 and Small Hype. AFROSCOPE represented Ghana at the Venice Biennale (April 2022), has shown work at 1-54 London (October 2023), at Museum Ostwall in Dortmund (December 2021), at the 21st Century Museum Kanazawa (November 2023), and in several other exhibitions as well.
Sculpture
Digital Art
Mixed Media
Digital Art
Mixed Media
