Kweisi Morris (he/him) has been creating for most of his life. Action figures fashioned from strips of torn paper when he was a kid. DIY model cars and planes cobbled and glued from scraps of old cardboard. Stories drawn from somewhere deep in his imagination. 

Kweisi did all the usual things in college: fibers and dyes, basket making, watercolor, oils and acrylics, chalk, pastels, charcoal and pencil, ceramics, mixed media, found objects, and woodwork. Post-college, he worked as a graphic designer, medical illustrator, software developer and designer. Before arriving in his current incarnation as a visual artist, Kweisi did some acting in Scottsville and Charlottesville, on the stage, in the street, and for a time, in a digital series online. 

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

Kweisi is the Sutton-Wallace Family Fellow at New City Arts. During his fellowship in March 2022, Kweisi will create a collection of symbols representing the shared culture and experiences of Black Americans.