DAPHNE, Ala. — The public is invited to an art show at the United States Sports Academy honoring the American Sport Art Museum and Archives 2010 Sport Artist of the Year, TAFA, at 5 p.m. Jan. 21.

TAFA, a native of Ghana, is the first native of Africa to be honored by ASAMA. He now calls Harlem, New York, home.

TAFA’s sport paintings have featured such subjects as boxing legend Muhammad Ali, tennis players Serena Williams and Pete Sampras, and the sport of basketball.

TAFA’s style has been described as blending musical rhythms, textured strokes, lush hues and spirituality. He says his paintings are “my drum song, my dance of the soul. I am like the divine drummer.” He obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.

He has been exhibited in a number of galleries and institutions in the United States, Japan, Europe and Africa. His works are part of numerous private and public collections in the Superior Court in Washington D.C., Fort Frederik Museum, The Smithsonian, Sparrow Hospital in Michigan, Ghana’s national museum, Carver Federal Bank and former New York mayor David Dinkins.