Like so many folk artists, Nanasei Agyemang creates with purpose, A new generation of Ghanaian ART design and weave museum quality art pieces. To build a business, the artist-entrepreneur turned to his Ghanaian roots in Ghana’s Upper East Region, where poverty is high and education low. There he found ready mentees, eager to learn. Now a job generator training artists in sophisticated weaving and coloration, Agyemang is locally, incrementally reducing poverty, and he is using environmentally sustainable business practices to do so.  Bolgawoven baskets are unique vessels, stunning in their organic shape, their staggering size and natural pigment. Agyemang designs the majestic patterns and forms, he selects the botanical color combination, and works closely with the weavers who use durable, naturally dyed elephant grass. Choosing only hand-harvested and hand-split fibers, the artists add water to soften the grasses enough to sculpt them into their organic shapes. For connoisseurs, these extra large, eye popping works of art are exciting texture; for locals, the sturdy woven vessels serve as separators, sifters, storage and more. Their conversion from daily usage in rural Africa to purchases from sophisticated collectors around the world has been transformative for the very artists who create them. Indeed, this is beauty out of an agriculturally barren land. The Upper East Region has long suffered from infertile soil, preventing any reliable farming or husbandry. International demand for the art pieces provides critical income.