About

Kweisi Morris

A funny thing happened to me at an arts and crafts market in Accra.

I’ve been creating for most of my life. Action figures fashioned from strips of torn paper when I was a kid. Model cars and planes cobbled and glued from scraps of cardboard. Stories drawn from somewhere deep in my imagination. 

I did all the usual things in college: fibers and dyes, basket making, watercolor, oils and acrylics, chalk, pastels, charcoal and pencil, ceramics, mixed media and found objects. Wood, and later, Software. 

I was the character, John, in an online series called Serenity Hill, by Larry Goldstein, and Brucie, in a COVID-aborted performance of Lynn Nottage’s, Sweat. I appeared twice in Scottsville’s Twilight Tours as BF Yancey and TJ Sellers. Played Mr. Potter in a performance of It’s A Wonderful Life and Scrooge in a presentation of A Christmas Carol. My other roles include designer, developer, corporate manager, author, husband, father, farmer, friend.

I found my people on a warm Saturday morning in Accra, at an artist’s market, so alive with creative energy that I could feel the hum of that force in my bones. For the first time, my own creative voice made sense to me. I realized then that I had spent a lifetime creating art, and never realized that in the process, I was creating an artist. 

These are my words and pictures from the Diaspora.