Raquel Van Haver, a Colombian contemporary artist, gave a presentation about her practice on 29th January, 2021 at the old Tech Sec premises on KNUST campus. The event was co-organised by blaxTARLINES, Opoku Ware II Museum, KNUST, Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) Tamale, and Red Clay.  

Van Haver discussed her works and exhibitions with faculty, students and members of the general public. She was born in 1989 in Bogota, Colombia, and now lives in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She graduated from the HKU Fine Arts in Utrecht in 2012 and was nominated that year, the following and in 2016 for the prestigious Dutch Royal Award for Painting. She works on burlap, combining oil paint, charcoal, plaster, paper, human hair, coal, chalk, among other things in densely textured compositions. Van Haver’s paintings, drawings, and installations draw from various spheres of cultural and political life including migration, globalisation, femininity and more.