Kwadwo Adae

New Haven

Adae’s domestic public art practice speaks directly to themes of Black history, social justice, racial equality, anti-police brutality, women’s rights, anti-gun violence, homelessness, LGBTQ+ rights, and environmental awareness; his international public art works focuses on the art of decolonization by amplifying the voices of the indigenous in places formerly subject to cultural erasure by centuries of colonization. Adae works in close collaboration with the Urban Resources Initiative, a program run by the Yale School of the Environment, that facilitates the planting of street trees with the installation of each subsequent mural installation, as a means to increase the size of New Haven’s urban forest in neighborhoods prioritizing the creation of public art that actively fights climate change.