African Design Magazine February 2015 | Page 86

1996 and Sundiata best artist of the Year 1998. He designed a poster and logo, “Spirit of the Nation”, for the Canadian Heritage Art Society in Victoria BC in 1997. He designed and created an award statues for Black Historical Society in Vancouver BC in 1999, also in 1999 won first prize in the Coop Radio Poster Competition in Vancouver BC. In 2001 Okoye came to Atlanta where he has been actively involved in the creative art community. He won the first