Kebedech Tekleab

Kebedech Tekleab (born 1958) is an Ethiopian painter and poet.

Tekleab attended the School of Fine Arts in Addis Ababa, becoming active in the student resistance movement during the revolution late in the 1970s. Fleeing Ethiopia, she became embroiled in the country's war with Somalia, being imprisoned in a labor camp for close to a decade. She was released in 1989 and emigrated to join family in the United States, receiving her BFA in 1992 and her MFA in 1995 from Howard University. She currently lives, works, and teaches in the Washington, DC area.

References

* [http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/passages/tekleab.html Biographical sketch]