George Nelson Preston

**George Nelson Preston** aka Nana Anakwa, the Aboafohene of Akuapem-Mamfe, Ghana (amụrụ 1938), bụ onye omenkà na ọkà mmụta nka nke Africa, na onye dere edemede, nyocha na akwụkwọ gbasara nka ọdịnala na nka oge ochie nke Africa. Ọ sonyela dị ka onye nlekọta, onye edemede na onye na-eweta ihe ngosi nka Bronx; Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka nke Brooklyn Awụnyere ihe ngosi nhọrọ nke nchịkọta ihe osise Africa na-adịgide adịgide na-elele (1968–78); Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka nke obodo ukwu ; Ụlọ ọrụ Smithsonian ; Museu Afro Brasil ; Centro Conde na Duque, Madrid; Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP); Ụlọ ọrụ Schomburg; Nyochaa: State of Art na New York; *Magazin Arts Africa* ; na *Dialectical Anthropology* .

Na 1959, o mepere Artist's Studio   na 48 East Third Street, NYC, bụ nke kwadoro ọgụgụ nke ndị ọgbọ Beat ọgbọ dịka Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Diane di Prima na LeRoi Jones (Amiri) Baraka). "George Nelson Preston nwere ụlọ ahịa 'Artist's Studio' na 48 East 3rd Street ebe ọ na-ahazi akwụkwọ uri kachasị mkpa nke e mere na New York. Otu mmemme akụkọ ihe mere eme na Sunday, February 15, 1959, gụnyere Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso, Orlovsky, LeRoy Jones, Jose Garcia Villa, Edward Marshall, Ted Joans, na ndị ọzọ".  Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na English Literature na Fine Arts na City College of the City University of New York na 1962 wee nweta nzere masta I(1968) na Ph.D. (1973), ha abụọ sitere na Mahadum Columbia na Obodo New York . Maka mmezu nke Ph.D., o mere nchọpụta ubi na Ghana, Ivory Coast na Togo (1968-70), na-eme ka ọ nweta akara ugo mmụta Ph. D. nke isiokwu ya bụ "Twifo-Hemang na Art-Leadership Complex of the Akan of Ghana".

Preston laghachiri n'Africa n'ọtụtụ oge na-esote site na 2013. Ọ kụziiri African Art History na Cooper Union (1971-78) na Rutgers University (1970-73) na City College of CUNY (1973-2006), ebe ọ bụ ugbu a Prọfesọ Emeritus. O bipụtala ọtụtụ akwụkwọ agụmakwụkwọ na akwụkwọ na oge gboo African na Contemporary Art gụnyere *Sets, Series and Ensembles in African Art*, 1985, *Emanoel Araújo : Afro-Minimalist Brazilian*, 1987  na *African Art Masterpieces*, 1991,  n'etiti ndị ọzọ. .

Kemgbe 2003, ọ bụ onye so na kọmitii sayensị nke Florence Biennale . Na 2005, o mepere Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka nke Art na Origins na Harlem, New York, ebe ọ na-arụ ụlọ ma na-egosipụta nchịkọta ihe osise Africa ya ma na-eje ozi dị ka onye isi nchịkwa na onye isi nchịkwa. Ọ bụkwa onye na-ese ihe nkiri plastik, na-arụ ọrụ na nchịkọta nke Museu AfroBrasil, São Paulo. Site na 14 Nọvemba ruo 24 Disemba 2016 o gosipụtara eserese na eserese na ihe ngosi solo ya nke isiokwu ya bụ *Njem nke onye nnọchi anya Afro-Atlantic: George Nelson Preston*, na Wilmer Jennings gallery nke Kenkeleba House, nke Coreen Jennings chepụtara. Preston bụ onye nnata nke Fulbright na Enyemaka Mpaghara Ofesi maka ọrụ ubi na Africa. Ndị gụsịrị akwụkwọ na nka nke The City College/ CUNY Alumni Association kwanyere ya onyinye nzere ọrụ na 2014. Na 2016, a họpụtara ya na Pierre Verger oche nke Academia Brasileira de Arte, Rio de Janeiro .

## Na-arụ ọrụ

* 1969: *Onye Ọkpụkpụ Ọkpụkpụ Afrịka* . Ithaca College Museum of Art katalọgụ, p.&nbsp;66.
* 1985: *Ntọala, Usoro na Mgbakọ na Art Africa* . Abrams na Center for African Art
* 1991: *African Art Masterpieces* . Hugh Levin Lauter na Abrams
* 1992: *America 500* . Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
* 1982: *Akụ ochie na Terra Cotta nke Mali na Ghana*, nke George Nelson Preston na Bernard de Grunne, African American Institute.

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