Queen Brooks

**Queen Brooks** (an haife ta a shekara ta 1943)  mai fasaha ce daga Columbus, Ohio, wacce aka fi sani da zane-zanenta na musamman, masu haske, da aka ƙona da itace. Jaridar The Columbus Dispatch ta bayyana Brooks a matsayin "ɗaya daga cikin fitattun masu fasaha 'yan Afirka-Amurkawa a Ohio," kuma daraktan Gidan Tarihi na Columbus Nannette Maciejunes a matsayin "babbar dattija a fannin fasaha a cikin al'ummarmu." Brooks jagora ce mai tasiri ga matasa masu fasaha da yawa, gami da mai zane-zanen psycheñwelic April Sunami .  Ita ce wacce ta lashe kyautar Lila Wallace, Kyautar Masu Zane ta Duniya ta Reader's Digest, wacce ta ba ta damar samun tallafin karatu a Abidjan, babban birnin ƙasar Côte d'Ivoire ta Yammacin Afirka. 

A shekarar 2012, ƙungiyar da aka fi sani da The HistoryMakers ta gudanar da wata hira ta baki da Queen Brooks don tarin bidiyon tarihin baka na Baƙar fata-Amurka, wanda ke da nufin haɓaka "bayani mai haɗaka game da tarihin Amurka."  

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An renon Brooks a matsayin mai fasaha ta hanyar ƙungiyar mawakan baƙar fata masu tasiri a yankin Columbus, waɗanda suka haɗa da Bill Agnew, mai sassaka itace a ƙasa Elijah Pierce, mai zane na waje "Grandpa Smoky" Brown, MacArthur Fellow Aminah Robinson, da kuma masu ba da shawara na Brooks, mai ɗaukar hoto Kojo Kamau, da kuma mai zane-zane na kafofin watsa labarai daban-daban Barbara Chavous.  Ta fara aikinta na fasaha tana koyar da fasaha da sana'o'i a Cibiyar Matasa ta J. Ashburn Jr. a shekarar 1980, inda ta fara cin karo da pyrography (ƙona itace). Bayan ta sami digiri na MFA a Jami'ar Jihar Ohio, ta kammala zama a Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Yammacin Afirka a matsayin wanda ya sami lambar yabo ta Lila Wallace ta 1993, Kyautar Mawakan Duniya ta Reader's Digest . 

## Alƙawura

* Jami'ar Otterbein - Farfesa na gaba, Fasaha, 1995 - 2002
* Jami'ar Dominican ta Ohio - Farfesa na Musamman, Fasaha, 2002 - 2006
* Majalisar Fasaha ta Greater Columbus - Fasaha a Majalisar Wakilai, Babban Mai Zane, 2008–yanzu 

## Nune-nunen da tarin abubuwa
Brooks tana cikin tarin kayan tarihi na dindindin na Gidan Tarihi na Columbus, William H. Thomas Gallery, Cibiyar Martin de Porres, Gidan Tarihi na Ƙasa da Cibiyar Al'adu ta Baƙar fata a Wilberforce, Ohio, da Jami'o'in Dominican da Otterbein na Ohio, da kuma King Arts Complex, da kuma tarin kayan tarihi na sirri a faɗin Amurka da kuma Ivory Coast .   Ayyukanta a halin yanzu suna kan nuni a Gidan Tarihi na Kudancin Ohio . 

Ta kuma ƙirƙiri ayyukan katako masu fenti da sassaka don wuraren jama'a, ciki har da ƙofar shiga filin wasa na Kwanzaa da ke Columbus, Ohio, da kuma zane-zanen bango na Krumm Park, shi ma a Columbus. 

A shekarar 2020, Gidan Tarihi na Kudancin Ohio ya nuna ayyukan Queen Brooks a wani baje kolin kayan tarihi. 

## Lambobin yabo da girmamawa

* Lila Wallace, Kyautar Mawakan Duniya ta Reader's Digest - 1993
* Kyautar Aiki ta Ohioana, 2008
* Kyautar 'Yancin Fasaha ta Kudu ta Settlement, 2004
* Kyautar Kyautar Ƙasa ta Fasaha ta Midwest, 1994
* Kyautar Kyau a Fannin Fasaha, Jami'ar Jihar Ohio 

## Zane-zane na jama'a
Ayyukan Brooks na jama'a sun haɗa da ƙofar shiga filin wasan Kwanzaa, filin wasa na farko na Afrocentric a Ohio, da zane-zanen bango a yankin wurin shakatawa na Columbus' Krumm, Makarantar K-8 ta Indianola, da Gidan Tarihi na Ross Art na Jami'ar Ohio Wesleyan .  

## Littattafan tarihi
An nuna ayyukan Brooks a cikin Mujallar Essence da kuma International Review of African American Art . 

## Manazarta