Grace Kwami

Grace Kwami studied at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is ceramicist. Places of work recorded in the authority are National Museum of Ghana. Employment is recorded with Mawuli School.

• Birth Name — Grace Salome Kwami • Birthplace — Worawora, Oti Region, Gold Coast (now Ghana) • Born — 1923 • Died — 2006 • Education — Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology • Occupation — * Teacher • Sculptor • Children — Atta Kwami Grace Salome Kwami (1923–2006) was a Ghanaian sculptor and educator.

Kwami was born in 1923 at Worawora, a town in the Volta Region of Ghana (then Gold Coast). She enrolled at the Basel Mission's Women Teachers' Training College in Agogo. She continued at the Kumasi College of Arts (now Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) in 1951, where she studied arts. • Illustration — A Girl in Red (Portrait of Gladys Ankora, Achimota), 1954

After her studies at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, she was employed by the National Museum, where she worked as a sculptor from 1954 to 1957. She later worked as a teacher at Mawuli School and Tamale Teachers' Training College from 1957 to 1978.

Kwami's expertise were in sculpture, painting and jewellery. Her works have been curated in collections and exhibited in the National Museum of Ghana, the Volta Regional Museum, and the Ghana Museums and Monument Board. Her work was recently included in African Modernism in America, 1947-67 exhibit at the Phillips Collection.

Kwami married Robert Kwami in 1954. She is the mother of the artist Atta Kwami. She died in 2006.