We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Vincent Frimpong. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Vincent below.
Vincent, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
As I think about where my resilience comes from I would say that it is from growing up as an African child, learning about the world and how I see myself in it differently than most. Now that I am in The United States as a man and an artist I have combined my lived experiences with assemblage of history, my artistic practice, and filled it with a community that I can freely collaborate with.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
Hello, my name is Vincent Frimpong, and you can call me Sniper. I am a multi-disciplinary ceramic artist. My home country is Ghana, West Africa and I am an MFA grad at the University of Arkansas. Currently, I am getting ready for my thesis show in February, and am very excited about that. It is called “The Frimpong Case”. The Frimpong Case is my way of gathering the skills and voices of Africans and African artists. From those I am in collaboration with like family and neighbors, to my colleagues in the United States, and the history I have learned, the African musicians who have deeply influenced my practice.
My story is one of hard work, determination, and pride in being an African man.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
I think that my skills are in assemblage, leadership, and collaboration. I’ve had the ability to combine my values of bringing my community together and use my creative skills to bring forth the power of how African heritage, art history, and my contemporary ceramic practice can bring a new perspective of what African and African artists bring to the world.
My advice would be to cross the bridges when you get to them and don’t lose your focus on your ideas. Keep making and making and a lot of times the words will come later. Just trust the process.
How can folks who want to work with you connect?
Yes, I am looking for collaborative partners to hold space for the work, both in conversation and physically, as an outdoor sculpture or creating a group exhibition. My goal is to share and talk about the collaborative process and include the stories of myself and other artists working in the same capacity and passions. I need collaborators to take these ideas to the next level and would love to build more resources and relationships.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://snipersart.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sniper_ceramica/
Image Credits
Larissa Ramey
