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Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collection, 2015.196.753.4, Connecticut Historical S…
Kannah Zealey
Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collection, 2015.196.753.4, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined.

Kannah Zealey

Liberian
BiographyKannah Zealey is a skilled designer and tailor of clothes for women and men, in typical West African styles. He trained a beginning tailor from the large Rhode Island Liberian community as part of the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program in 2008-2009. Both of the artists carried significant disabilities suffered during the war years in Liberia, and they had met before in a refugee camp in Sierra Leone. They enjoyed connecting again and working together, and presented their work at an exhibit and marketplace of CCHAP’s Sewing Circle Project.
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