Nelson Stevens (1938 – Julaị 22, 2022) bụ onye omenka amaara maka ịgụ aka ya na mkpokọta ihe nka ojii nke Chicago dabere na AfriCOBRA .  [1] [2] Ebe ọrụ Stevens na ụlọ dị ka Art Institute of Chicago, [3] Brooklyn Museum, [4] Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, [5] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, [6]  Smithsonian National Museum of African.  American History and Culture, [7] na Tate [1]

Ndụ mmalite na agụmakwụkwọ

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Stevens Nelson Lowell Stevens Jr na Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City.  Ọ akwụkwọ ịga klas izu ụka na Museum of Modern Art mgbe o meri otu akara na klas nke anɔ;  Mpempe mmeri ya sitere n'ike ike nsso Picasso's Guernica . [2] [3]

Na 1962 o nzere nzere bachelọ nke Fine Arts na Mahadum Ohio, na 1969 ọ matsayin Master of Fine Arts na nka studio na izi nka site na Mahadum Kent State. . [2] [4]

Ọrụ nka

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Na 1956 Stevens akụkọ ịse ihe osise na ụlọ oriri na ngosi jazz na Utica, New York ;  na nloghachi, ụlọ ọrụ ahụ nyere Stevens nri n'efu. [3] [5]

Stevens sonyeere AfriCOBRA na 1969 mgbe o zutere onye nchoputa Jeff Donaldson na College Art Association Conference na Boston .  [1] [2] [3] Ya na ndị òtù ndị ọzọ, kere ihe odide silkscreen nke ọrụ ya dị ka ụzọ isi mee ka nkà na-enweta ikike maka ọha na eze;  E rere ha na mbụ nwa $10–15 na mmemme mpaghara. [1] [6]

Na 1971, Stevens haziri akwụkwọ mmado maka oru ngo na Mahadum Northern Illinois nke akpọrọ Color Rappers, nke bu n'obi bulite ego mmụta maka ụmụ akwụkwọ ojii site na ire nka. [7]

N'afọ 1992, Stevens akụkọ ọrụ Art in the Service of the Lord, nke nyere ndị na-ese ihe n'Africa-America ka ha akwụkwọ nka Akwụkwọ Nsọ nke na-Ụdị ndị isi ojii.  [1] Ọrụ a sitere na ozi nke ụlọ olili ozu nke ndị ojii na-agakwuru Stevens wee ike ka o nye ya ihe ọrụ iji ike anya ha ọrụ nke Mary na Jesus na-acha alụ ọgụ na-acha agha.  [1] A na-ere ọrụ ndị ahụ dị ka usoro kalenda site na akwụkwọ Productions, otu nke Stevens na-enyere ya, Martha Grier kpara.  [2] E rere kalenda ahụ afã anɔ, na-ere ihe dị ka kalenda 15,000 kwa afọ.  [3] E ụfọdụ ndị sitere na ọrụ ahụ na Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture na New York City na 1994. [8]

Ụdị

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Stevens lere okike nka anya dị ka "n'ihi ndị mmadụ" kama "n'ihi nka".  [1] Nkà ya nwere agba "nwere obi ike", " cool-ade " na "ahịrị a na-ịkọ anya ya", na-agụnye ngwaọrụ ma ọ bụ ederede.  Ọrụ ya lekwasịrị anya ugboro ugboro na pan-Africanism na dị mma nke ma ihe mere eme na ihe ndị isi ojii ugbu a. [2] [1] [9] [10]

Stevens lekwasịrị anya n'ụzọ dị ukwuu na ike nke abụọ, ọ bụ ebe na ọrụ ya na-agụnye ụfọdụ collages. . [11]

Murals

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Na 1973, Stevens, mmemme iji mgbasa ozi ọha na eze na Springfield, Massachusetts, site n'agụ nke ụmụ akwụkwọ ya na Massachusetts Amherst .  N'ime afọ anọ sochirinụ Stevens na ndị otu ya kere murals 36. [1] Ọ bụ ebe na ọtụtụ n'ime ihe ndị ọrụ ahụ furu efu n'ime afọ ndị na-esote, a rụpụtara abụọ n'ime ike - Wall of  Black Music and Tribute to Black Women - na 2022. [2] [3] Na 1973, Stevens mekwara mural na Boston, nke isiokwu ya bụ Work to Unify African People, nke e bu n'obi ka o yie ihe ngozi Dana Chandler,  Ọmụma bụ ike ịhụ Nọọ n'akwụkwọ akwụkwọ .[12] [10]

Na 1980, Stevens kere ihe osise, nke isiokwu ya bụ Centennial Vision, maka Mahadum Tuskegee iji mee ememe 100th ha.  [1] [2] E iku ya na Julaị awụ ahụ.  [3] N'afọ 1989 Stevens na ụmụ akwụkwọ Job Corps ise ọmụmụ aka na ọmụmụ iji mee nke apụta 25 nke mmemme ahụ.  E sere ahụ n'isi ụlọ ọrụ Ngalaba Na-ahụ Maka Ọrụ na United States na Washington, DC [13] [14]

Ihe ngosi

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[15]Ọrụ Stevens pụtala na ihe ngosi na-egosi nka sitere n'aka ndị otu AfriCOBRA dị iche iche.  [1] [2] [3] E Mkpala ọrụ ya n'etiti ndị omenkà ojii ndị ọzọ, ndị na UMass Amherst [4] na Springfield Technical Community College na February 1992 (nke ikpeazụ Stevens mekwara), [5] na Jamaica Plain Art  Centre na 1994, [6] na na Northampton Center for Arts na 1995. [7] Stevens chekwara ihe ngwere nke 1991 nke African American nke na-egosi "Rhythming".

Egosiri ihe ngosi otu nwoke nke ọrụ Stevens na Studio Museum na Harlem na 1973, [1] na Afro-American Cultural Center of American International College na Jenụwarị na February 1978. [2] Na 2009 nchịkọta ọrụ Stevens na Umass Amherst.  [3] Na September 2019, Stevens nwere ihe ngosi solo egosi "Ọrụ site na 60s ruo ugbu a" na Kravets Wehby Gallery na New York City. [5]

Na September 2022, nlegharị anya ọrụ Stevens, nke ikiri "Nelson Stevens' Color Rapping", mepere na Mahadum Maryland Global Campus, ebe ọ pụtara na-elele ruo Jenụwarị 2023. [1] Ihe ngosi ahụ wee bufee na D'Amour Museum of  Fine Arts na Springfield, Massachusetts, ebe e mere ndokwa ka a na-ekiri ya site na March ruo Septemba 2023. [16] [17]

Ọrụ nkuzi

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Mgbe ọsịrị akara akara ugo akara bachelor ya, Stevens onye nkuzi nka ụlọ akwụkwọ na Cleveland, Ohio .  N'oge ahụ ọ kpebirikwara ihe na ndị Karamu .  akwụkwọ akwụkwọ Cleveland tinyechara ya na Cleveland Museum of Art[18] [3] [5]

[13]Stevens bụ osote prọfesọ na Mahadum Northern Illinois site na 1969 ruo 1971, n'oge ọ kuziri nkuzi na ndị nka nka nke Africa-American.  Ọ bụ onye prọfesọ nka na ngalaba nkọwa ihe gbasara African-American na Mahadum Massachusetts Amherst site na 1972 ruo 2003. [1] [2] [3] N'oge ọrụ ya rụkwara ọrụ dị ka onye ngalaba na DRUM, akwụkwọ edemede  edemede na ụmụ akwụkwọ

Ndụ onwe onye

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Mgbe ọ bi na Cleveland, Stevens na-agakarị Templelọ nsso Jazz [18]

Stevens biri na Springfield,

Massachusetts site na 1972 ruo 2003. [1] Mgbe ọ lara ezumike na 2003, Stevens kwagara Owings Mills, Maryland [2]

Ya na Marciana G. Sealey, nwere otu nwa nwanyị, Nadya Stevens na 1983. [19] [20]

Ntụaka

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mistry (November 2017). 'Uhuru', Nelson Stevens, 1971 (en-GB). Tate. Retrieved on 2023-03-26. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":2" defined multiple times with different content
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Valentine (July 25, 2022). AfriCOBRA Artist Nelson Stevens Has Died at 84: He Contributed to a 'Radical Black Aesthetic That Asserted Black Empowerment, Self-Determination, and Unity' (en-US). Culture Type. Retrieved on 2023-03-26. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":0" defined multiple times with different content
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Nelson Stevens Biography (en-US). Galerie Myrtis. Retrieved on 2023-03-26. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":3" defined multiple times with different content
  4. Carter (December 9, 2022). Nelson Stevens (MFA '69) and the AfriCOBRA Movement (en). Kent State University. Retrieved on 2023-03-26.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sayej. "'The 60s were devastating' – AfriCOBRA's Nelson Stevens on art and activism", The Guardian, August 29, 2019. Retrieved on 2023-03-26. (in en-GB) Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":5" defined multiple times with different content
  6. Zorach (2019). Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965–1975 (in en). Duke University Press, 200. DOI:10.2307/j.ctv11sn14j. ISBN 978-1-4780-0100-3. 
  7. (1971-01-28) "Raise Scholarship Funds Selling Art". Jet: 47. 
  8. Pugh. "Calendar features black Christian art", The Republican, 10 September 1994, pp. 11.
  9. Thurlow. "The late Nelson Stevens, who taught art at UMass for 3 decades, has two of his historic murals recreated, dedicated in Springfield", Daily Hampshire Gazette, September 25, 2022. Retrieved on March 26, 2023.
  10. 10.0 10.1 Crawford (2017). Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics (in en). University of Illinois Press, 55-56, 100-101. ISBN 978-0-252-04100-6.  Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":9" defined multiple times with different content
  11. Exhibition Memorializes Nelson Stevens' Art, Life | UMGC Global Media Center (en). University of Maryland Global Campus (November 7, 2022). Retrieved on 2023-03-26.
  12. Jones (1974). "Artists Hold Sixteenth Convention: A NEW ERA OF BLACK ART". Black View 2 (7): 11–15. ISSN 2473-1250. 
  13. 13.0 13.1 Frank. "Mural by students to honor Job Corps", The Republican, 19 April 1989, pp. 22. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":12" defined multiple times with different content
  14. Frank. "Job Corps paintbrushes depict racial harmony", The Republican, 8 August 1989, pp. 44.
  15. Russell. "Rhythm a factor in art exhibit", The Republican, 17 March 1991, pp. D4.
  16. Nelson Stevens: Color Rapping | Springfield Museums (en-US). Retrieved on 2023-03-26.
  17. Conway (March 8, 2023). D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts debuts Nelson Stevens exhibit (en). Reminder Publications. Retrieved on 2023-03-26.
  18. 18.0 18.1 Prominent Artist and Educator Nelson Stevens, Dead at 84 (en-us). Diverse: Issues In Higher Education (July 24, 2022). Retrieved on 2023-03-26. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":1" defined multiple times with different content
  19. O'Quinn. "Professors contribute to calendar", The Republican, 1 August 1992, pp. 13.
  20. NEPM (2022-11-10). Springfield Murals Honor the Late Artist & Activist Nelson Stevens (en-US). Connecting Point. Retrieved on 2023-03-31.