Benedict Tisa

Benedict Tisa is the recipient of 2 New Jersey State Council of the Arts Fellowships, a New Pictorialist Society Fellowship and the R.R. Watson Award to Filmmakers. He served as an Artist‑in‑Residence in Camden County, New Jersey. Articles and photographs have been published in Africa Report, African Technology Forum, American Photographer, Darkroom Photography, DEROS and ShotGlass Poetry Journals, Institute for Food and Development Policy, Poetry Today, and UNESCO. His art works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of Art, Visual Arts Workshop, Walker Art Center, Cleveland State University, Boston Zoological Society and Harvard University. Benedict served four years in the US Navy, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Ivory Coast and served with International Voluntary Services in Bangladesh. He is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles. In addition to exhibitions he has worked as a senior technical advisor to the School Education and Technology Project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he designed and implemented programs using technologies such as digital imaging, Internet and web application to be used in the West African public education and distance learning activities. He worked with Johns Hopkins and the Academy for Educational Development providing technical assistance in the fields of communication, new technologies, behavior change, social marketing applications in youth, child survival, population and reproductive health activities. In Niger working with the Population Demographic Program he planned, directed and produced national mass media campaign for promotion of family planning activities using radio and TV programs. Work in Haiti led to the collaboration with Haitian artist to produce a series of flags and banners based on traditional Haitian mediums.