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. Additionally, he served as a senior art advisor for the installation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Jon Onye Lockard

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Jinsu	gorko
Innde	Jon
Innde ɓesngu	Lockard
Ɗuubi daygo	25 Siilo 1932
Ɗoforde	Detroit
Date of death	25 Mbooy 2015
Place of death	Ann Arbor
Sana'aji	painter, muralist, educator
Field of work	art of painting, illustration
Janngi to	Wayne State University, University of Toronto
Work location	Detroit
Lenyol	African Americans
Copyright status as a creator	works protected by copyrights
Artist files at	National Gallery of Art Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library

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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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.