Jon Onye Lockard
Jon Onye Lockard (January 25, 1932 – March 25, 2015) was an American muralist, painter, professor, historian, and activist. Lockard's early-to-mid career was centered around the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He was a founding faculty member of the Department of Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.[1] Additionally, he served as a senior art advisor for the installation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.[2]
Caggal nde o yi'i tigilde AfriCOBRA nder konfaaba Jeff Donaldson nder hitaande 1967, Lockard jaɓɓi innde "Onye" caggal "Onye Eje", ma'ana "haayre mawɗo" nder ɗemngal Igbo. O laati ardiiɗo nder National Conference of Artists, caggal nde o jeyaa hooreejo. Fuu golle maako ɗon anndina nder kuɓol yimɓe mawɓe bana Gwendolyn Brooks, George Benson, Jacob Javits, Coleman Young, Sidney Poitier, e James Earl Jones.
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[taƴto | taƴto ɗaɗi wiki]Lockard jibini Lillian Jones e Cecil E. Lockard nder 25 Januuwar 1932 nder Detroit, Michigan. Baabaawo'en Lockard fuu ɓe ɗon diga worgo; Jones ɗon ɗon ɗon ɗon ƴowo Port Arthur, Mississippi e Lockard ɗon ɗon ƴawo Marianna, Arkansas.
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[taƴto | taƴto ɗaɗi wiki]- ↑ "Jon Lockard - Ann Arbor - LocalWiki". localwiki.org. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
- ↑ "Jon Lockard, DAAS lecturer and co-founder, dies at 83 | The University Record". record.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-21.