Originally from Ghana-West Africa, Beatrice Atencah creates fiber sculpture and site-specific installation artworks that explores the nexus of fiber and metal sculpture in Africa & America, and the histories pertaining to cultural acculturation. Her artistic sensitivities and interrogations are profoundly informed by transformation and adaptation through explorations of patinated copper, married with woven Kente strips made in Bonwire, Kumasi- Ghana. 

This has included exhibitions and curatorial projects spanned nationally and internationally across USA, Turkey and UK including “Between Two Spaces – A Mary Warren Collection” project at IU Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (2024), coupled with 5 publications and numerous awards and grants.

Atencah’s current curatorial project “Interlacing in Textiles” is on view at the Eskenazi Museum of Art in Bloomington, Indiana where she obtained her MFA in Fibers.She has 12 years teaching experience in studio art of which 4 years of those years were taught informally at basic schools through Ghana Education Services and the remaining formally in KNUST – Ghana & Indiana University Bloomington with topical interests in Fashion Design, Textile Art & Technology, 2D & Studio Arts