The Dagara Collection
Created in Burkina Faso by artist, Mr. Traoré Oumarou, the Dagara Collection has been meticulously curated just for you.
His artwork brings to life the power ancient Dagara wisdom. Traoré has devoted his life to studying, celebrating, and sharing the Dagara way of life with the world.
We are honored to feature this powerful Medicine Art exhibit to awaken a deeper connection to the Wild, Nature, and Earth for your heart, spirit, and soul.
Origins of the Dagara Collection
In 2022, I purchased three of Traoré’s pieces, the King of Diviners, King of Kontomble, and King of Medicine. At that time, I didn’t know Traoré, the names of the pieces, story of the art, or what the future had in store for our journey.
After experiencing the energetic shift in my life, my Divination practice, and my shrine room after hanging up the three pieces I purchased, I approached Traore with a proposal for collaboration, and since then we have been working to share his artwork more widely with the world.
And so we began, with 18 canvases and a dream.
Medicine Art
Medicine Art is created for a sacred purpose, and carries the energies of healing spirits and spiritual wisdom.
We believe that artwork is a potent tool for transformation, particularly in the area of cultural exchange. The Dagara culture is rich with earth-based animistic wisdom, which is a spiritual medicine of great value to the modern world.
The Dagara Collection Medicine Art carries the essence of Dagara medicine in each brush stroke.
Meet the Artist
Traoré is a self-taught artist, born December 12, 1971, in Dano, Burkina Faso where he resides to this day.
His journey as an artist is inspired by his deep passion for Dagara culture and youth education. He is a primary school teacher, and his career as an artist began through teaching art to children. Quickly captivated by the love of painting, he has been refining his craft for two decades. His determination earned him his first exhibit in 2010 at the Goethe Institute with the theme, Art Takes a Stand, featuring works focused on Peace, Freedom, and non-violence in West African cities.
Traoré utilizes a variety of painting styles in his works, including Fauvism, Expressionism, and abstract art. He carefully applies his brushes to create spiritual and otherworldly ghostly forms, using art as a medium for raising consciousness and inspiring deeper awareness of the spiritual realms.
His creations are based on daily life and contemporary art with a spiritual connotation. Insecure is a theme that inspires Oumarou, as it directly relates to the current state of his country and even the world. He has woven this theme into a series of recent exhibitions titled "The World Turns" and "Sweeping," among others.
He believes visual art is a collective memory, and aspires to infuse his passion for Dagara and greater West African spiritual wisdom traditions into his artwork and the collective memory of the world.
In the early 2000’s, his work as a cultural ambassador for the Dagara People lead to his collaboration with Mark Bockley, founder of Zangala. Together with another Dagara man, Poda David, they co-created an annual Dagara-inspired Balafon Festival to honor and celebrate the traditional Dagara culture, music, dance, ceremony, rituals, and other performance arts that are central to the Dagara way of life.
Traoré is a culture warrior with relentless passion to protect and promote Dagara traditional culture in Burkina Faso and beyond.
