Achamyeleh Debela
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Achamyeleh Debela (b. 1947) is an Ethopian computer artist.
Debela graduated from the Addis Ababa School of Fine Arts in 1967 where he was influenced by Skunder Boghossian, and completed additional schooling at Nigeria's Ahmadu Bello University in 1972. Some years later he moved to Baltimore, Maryland, earning master's degrees from Morgan State University and the Maryland Institute College of Art. He pursued doctoral studies in computer graphics and art education at Ohio State University. Currently he teaches art and computer graphics at North Carolina Central University; he has also been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, which allowed him to spend a year in Ghana and Ethiopia.
[edit] Further reading
- Elizabeth Harney, Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora, Philip Wilson Publishers (2003), ISBN 0856675628