Michael Dela Dika Born in Ghana and based in Philadelphia, Michael Dela Dika is an artist, curator, and educator. Dika explores feelings of displacement and belonging in his work.  He navigates the complex terrain of identity, globalization, and labor. Dika has received numerous awards and grants, including the 2022 Multicultural Fellowship Award (NCECA), Center for Material Culture Studies Research Grant Award, the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund-Partnership for Arts & Culture Grant, Penland School of Art & Craft, Full Vision Residency Fellowship Award. In 2021, he was the recipient of the A. Magness Gray Fellowship Award, among others. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Germany (Berlin), Virginia, Florida, Oregon, the Biggs Museum of American Art, the Delaware Contemporary, and Richmond Museum, among others.  In 2023, he debut his museum solo show at the Phillip Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, titled  Shaping Rhapsody. Currently, he is the visiting/resident artist at Tyler School of Architecture in Philadelphia. He has his works on view at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, It Takes a Village exhibition organized and curated by Roberto Lugo at Mainline Art Center, PA.