Akua Lezli Hope's Page

Gender:

Gal

I am a/an:

Independent Artist/Designer

(Designers only) I create:

jewelry, ornaments, sculpture, artbooks, hats

(Designers only) My work is sold at:

Miles Aduwaa Gallery in Chicago

Website:

http://www.akuadesigns.etsy.com

Website #2:

http://www.artfarm.com

Website #3:

http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/a/akualezli/

Favorite Designers/Artists:

the Dogon, Bambara, Ife/Benin, first peoples, Isamu Noguchi,Zenobia Bailey,Antonio Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Morris, Picasso, Gustav Stickley, Frank Gehry, Fukoko Ando,John Wilson,Klimt,Gordon Parks,Walker Evans, Geoffrey Holder,
Ansel Adams.Sokari Douglas Camp

Favorite Music/Musicians:

Albert Ayler,Andrew White,Billy Harper, Sonny Rollins,Betty Carter, Von Freeman,Don Cherry,John Coltrane,Oscar Peterson,Stevie Wonder, Jim Webb, George Adams, Don Pullen,Odean Pope, Arthur Blythe,Tommy Emmanuel, George Gershwin, Bobby Hutcherson, Sarah Vaughn, Thelonious Monk,Bobby McFerrin, Tuck and Patti, pop: Cole Porter, Rogers and Hammerstein, Jon Lucien, Taj Mahal,Marvin Gaye,Brenda Russell,Patti Labelle, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Miki Howard,Earth Wind and Fire,Donnie Hathaway, Raul Midon,

Favorite TV Show & Movies:

Avatar, the last Airbender,Moribito, Noein, Star trek: DSN and TNG,Six Feet Under, The Sopranos,Richard Pryor Show, Firefly, Serenity, Dirty Pretty things, My Beautiful Launderette, Ali Fear Eats The Soul, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits (the original),The Prisoner, China Beach,Northern Exposure,Prime Suspect,The Inspector Lynley Series, Inspector Morse, Inspector Frost, Ballykissangel, Jekyll,OBAN Star Racers,A Boy and His Dog, Life as a Dog, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,Little Buddah,Sugarcane Alley, Daughters of the Dust,Brother John,To Sleep With Anger,Golden Compass,Lord of the Rings, all the Harry Potter movies,

Favorite Books / Authors:

Robert Hayden, Derek Walcott, Orson Scott Card, Philip Pullman, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Czeslaw Milosz,Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Aime Cesaire, Lorraine Hansberry, Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Afrodisiac by Ted Joans, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin,Jayne Cortez, Tomaz Salamun, Osip Mandelstam, Ann Akhmatova, Frantz Fanon,Octavio Paz,