Ablade Glover, 1934

Ablade Glover is a Ghanaian artist and educator. He has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene.

His work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, including the Imperial Palace of Japan, UNESCO headquarters in Paris, and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Glover has received several national and international awards, including the "Order of the Volta" in Ghana, and is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. He was Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Art Education and Dean of the College of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology until 1994.

Born in Accra in what was then the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), Glover studied at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology before earning scholarships to study textile design at London's Central School of Art and Design (1959–62). He later studied art education at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1964–65), where he adopted the palette knife technique that would define his style.

He earned a master's degree from Kent State University and a PhD from Ohio State University in 1974. Returning to Ghana, he taught for two decades at the College of Art in Kumasi, eventually becoming Department Head and College Dean.

In 1998, he received the Flagstar Award from ACRAG and a distinguished alumni award from the African-American Institute in New York. He is also the founder of the Accra-based Artists Alliance.

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