Foundation for Contemporary Art

Not to be confused with the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, in New York City.

The Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA) is a Ghanaian visual arts foundation that aims to create an active network of artists and provide a critical forum for the development of contemporary art in Ghana. Based on the name idea and respective function suggestion of photographer Eric Don-Arthur to Virginia Ryan in Accra, Ghana - the FCA was founded in 2004 by Professor Joe Nkrumah and Australian/Italian artist Virginia Ryan, along with Eric Don-Arthur and 12 other founding members. The FCA office is located in the W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture in the Cantonments neighborhood of Accra.^{[citation needed]}

Membership

The Foundation for Contemporary Art currently has circa 100 members — artists,^[1] critics, collectors, art enthusiasts — as well as an advisory board and an executive board. The Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana actively recruits new members and welcomes all practising artists and people interested in contemporary arts.

Objectives

The objectives of the Foundation for Contemporary Art are fourfold:

1. Organize exhibitions, seminars, workshops and publications to raise the awareness of and develop critical thinking about contemporary art in Ghana
2. Establish a resource centre of arts-related texts available for consultation, research and documentation
3. Create a website to promote contemporary art in Ghana
4. Establish a public database of artists, arts organizations, art businesses, galleries and others interested in contemporary art in Ghana