[4] Witnessing industrial processes in his native Nigeria also inspired his preference for recycling discarded materials as an alternative to the resulting burned landscape and killed their soil.

This experience brought attention from Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture to Ofiaeli's work in Lagos where they then built a national workshop for artists.

[9] These workshops have been taught in both his home in New York and in villages in Nigeria where they learn how to make these objects from repurposed discarded materials and sell them for profit.

[11] In 2015 Ofiaeli received a Queens Council of the Arts Individual Artist Grant to bring his workshops around the region.

This exhibition was curated by No Longer Empty at York College and also featured work by Janet Henry, Shervone Neckles and Damali Abrams.