The Ghana Culture Forum (GCF) has requested that the government explore establishing a national arts gallery.
According to the report, such a facility would help to preserve the aesthetic and intellectual works of artists for future generations.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Nana Otuo Owoahene Acheampong, the Forum's General Secretary, criticized how the country had lost out on the renowned artworks of Amon Kotei and Kofi Antubam, as well as continuing to lose out on art work from the younger generation.
"I'm a visual artist," he explained, "but we don't have an art gallery to present the work of renowned Ghanaians like Kofi Antubam and Amon Kotei."
The art gallery, according to the artist, is one of the infrastructure investments that the government should make to assist boost the industry's value chain operations through the display, marketing, and sales of artworks.
Nana Owoahene Acheampong stated that galleries have become a vital part of the art industry, bringing together vendors and buyers from all over the world, which Ghana must take advantage of.
In his 2022 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said the creative arts industry had immense potential, which the government will unlock via education and skills training.