Fiber Artist, Kabuya P. Bowens-Saffo
Category: People Four Thomasville Women
@ kabuyapamelabowenssaffo
Born in Richmond Heights, Florida, and currently living and working in Tallahassee, printmaker and internationally recognized artist Kabuya Pamela Bowens-Saffo received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Howard University, where she studied under founding members of the AfriCOBRA movement, Jeff Donaldson and the renowned artist Lois Mailou Jones. Bowens-Saffo continued graduate studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and received MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. A recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, she is a master printmaker who studied with Robert Blackburn. Her current art processes and materials involve mixed-media constructions, often exploring American social and political human relationships, with an emphasis on the black experience. The history of black women in Thomasville, Ga, is an interesting focus in the quilt of Bowens-Saffo. The identity of these black women is highlighted through the musical achievements of the Hadley sisters, Marie, Agnes, and Rose, as well as the first black woman to model for Pepsi, Nicola Chisley.
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