Ohioana Career Award: 2006
Kojo Kamau of Columbus OH
 Kojo Kamau is a photographer,
arts leader, and documentarian of African-American life in all its breadth and beauty. He has produced memorable
portraits of such notable figures as Elijah Pierce, Jesse Jackson, Aminah Robinson, James Baldwin, Roman Johnson, and Maya Angelou.
His work, depicting everything from civil unrest in the 1960s to the African landscape and the daily lives of its inhabitants,
is included in the permanent collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, Central State University, and Morehouse College,
among many others.
Kojo and his late wife, Mary Ann Williams, established Art for Community Expression in 1979 to help support
African-American artists and their work. Through both his photography and his leadership, Kamau has played a major role in African-American art in
Ohio and in the larger art world.
Article on Kojo Kamau from Short North Gazette, August
2006
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