Luster Willis

**Luster Willis** (1913), bụ ónyé Africa-America na-ese ihe si Terry, Mississippi nke a maara nke ọma màkà ihe osise na ihe osise ya. O jiri ụdị ihe osise dị iche iche na collage mee ihe iji dọta uche na adịghị ike nke mgbasa ozi ọha na eze.

## Ndụ
A mụrụ Luster Willis n'ubochí irí abụọ na isé n'ọnwa Disemba, 1913. Ọ gàrà ụlọ akwụkwọ ruo na klas nke asatọ, wee malite ọrụ ugbo ógè niile mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị. N'oge opupu ihe ubi na ógè okpomọkụ ọ nyeere nnà ya aka n'ilekọta ugbo ha dị hekta iri isii. N'oge oyi, ọ gburu osisi ma mee njikọ màkà Illinois Central Railroad. Ọ lụrụ Louvennia Bozman n'ubochí irí n'ọnwa Nọvemba, 1934, ọ bụ ezie na ha enweghị ụmụ nke ha, ha zụlitere ụmụ nwanne nné abụọ.

N'afọ 1943, a kpọrọ ya ka ọ sonye n'agha America n'oge Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ. Ọ nọrọ na Europe ruo afọ atọ, ọ bụkwa na Germany, France, na Austria ebe mbụ ọ hụrụ ezigbo nka. A tọhapụrụ ya n'ọrụ agha n'afọ 1947. Ọ laghachiri Egypt Hill, Mississippi wee gaa Magnolia Trade School na Jackson, Mississippi màkà asambodo onye na-akpụ isi ya.

Nná Willis nwụrụ na 1963 ma Willis ketara ugbo ya, ebe o bìrì ndụ ya fọdụrụ. Mgbè ọ dara ọrịa strok na mberede na 1986, Willis enweghị ike ịmepụta ọrụ nka ndị ọzọ. Ọ nwụrụ nanị afọ ole na ole mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị na 1991.

## Ọrụ
Willis gosipụtara mmasị na nkà màkà nka n'oge ọ dị obéré. Otú ọ dị, ndị nkụzi ya kụdara mmasị nka ya, na-eleghara ha anya dị ka ndị na-abaghị uru na ndị na-enweghị isi. Ka o sina dị, Willis gara n'ihu na-ese ma na-eme ihe okike ya. N'oge Great Depression, ọ tụrụ osisi ije maka ndị agbata obi ya na Mississippi, na-ekwe nkwa "ịtinye mkpara n'aka onye agadi ọ bụla nọ na obéré ọbọdọ ya". Ogwe osisi ya, nke gosipụtara mmadụ n'onwe ya n'isi osisi ahụ, nwere ihe ịga nke ọma nke na ha bụ isi ihe ọ na-enweta n'oge Nsogbu, na-akwụ ụgwọ n'etiti cents irí asaá na isé na dollar ise nke ọ bụla. Mgbe Willis ketara ugbo nna ya na 1963, o nwere ohere na nnwere onwe ka ukwuu iji mepụta n'ụzọ nke ya, ya mere ọ malitere ise ihe na ise ihe na nke mbụ. N'oge na-adịghị anya mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, William Ferris, onye nduzi nke Center for the Study of Southern Culture na Mahadum Mississippi chọpụtara ọrụ ya.

## Ihe ngosi na nchịkọta na-adịgide adịgide
E gosipụtara ọrụ Willis na ihe ngosi ndị a:

* The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts, 1978, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
* Emere site n'aka: Mississippi Folk Art, 22 Jan- 25 May 1980, Mississippi State Historical Museum, Jackson, MS.
* Black Folk Art na America, 1930-1980, 15 Jenụwarị- 28 Machị 1982, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
* Ihe Ọ bụ: African-American Folk Art site na Regenia A. Perry Collection, 6-27 Ọktoba 1982, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
* Baking in the Sun: Ihe oyiyi ọhụụ sitere na South: nhọrọ sitere na nchịkọta Sylvia na Warren Lowe, 13 Jun- 31 Jul 1987, University Art Museum, University of Southern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.
* Enisled Visions: The Southern Non-Traditional Folk Artist, 1987, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL.
* 20th Century American Folk Art si Arient Family Collection, 16 Oct- 14 Nov, 1987, Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL.
* Onyinye *ọhụụ*: African American Folk Art, 27 1988, Atrium Gallery, Mahadum Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
* *Ndị si n'èzí na-eleba anya*: Ncheta, ọhụụ, na Fantasies, 1989, Gilley's Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA.
* Onyinye *ọhụụ*: African American Folk Art, 27 Jan- 24 Feb, 1990, University Art Gallery, Mahadum Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA.
* Ihe Ọ bụ: African-American Folk Art site na Regenia A. Perry Collection, 1996, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX.
* *Mkpụrụ obi* bụ isi: Onyinye Hager nke Self-Taught American Art, 26 Jenụwarị- 10 Machị 1996, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL.
* *Mkpụrụ obi toro* omimi: African-American Vernacular Art of the South. 29 Jun- 3 Nov 1996, Michael C. Carlos Museum na City Hall East, Atlanta, GA.
* Outsider Art: An Exploration of Chicago Collections 9 Dec 1996- 23 Feb 1997, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.
* Igbe Noa: Ụmụ anụmanụ site na Southern Self-Taught Artists. 1 Ọgọst - 19 Septemba 1998, Art Museum nke Mahadum Memphis, Memphis, TN.
* *Southern Spirit*: The Hill Collection, 21 Feb- 31 Mar, 2000, Museum of Art, Tallahassee, FL.
* A Return to January '82: The Corcoran Show Revisited, 22 Jan- 16 Mar 2002, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY.
* *Akụkọ nke Obodo*: Self-Teught Art site na Hill Collection, 12 Aug- 30 Oct 2004, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA.
* Okwukwe Anyị kwupụtara- Ọrụ sitere na nchịkọta nke Gordon W. Bailey, 10 Sep 2014- 8 Aug 2015, University of Mississippi Museum of Art, Oxford, MS.

Ọrụ Willis dị na nchịkọta na-adịgide adịgide nke ebe ngosi ihe mgbe ochie ndị a:

* Ebe Ngosi Ihe Ochie Ackland
* Ọ́bá Akwụkwọ Morgan &amp;amp; Museum
* Ebe Ngosi Ihe Ochie dị elu
* Ebe Ngosi Ihe Ochie nke Los Angeles County
* Smithsonian American Art Museum
* Ebe Ngosi Ihe Ochie nke Mississippi
* Old Capitol Museum of Mississippi History
* Ebe Nkà Mmụta Ọkọlọ nke Kentucky
* St. James Place Folk Art Museum
* Ebe Ngosi Ihe Ochie nke New Orleans
* Ebe Ngosi Ihe Ochie Rockford

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