Nikkolas Smith

**Nikkolas Smith** bụ onye omenkà nke oge a America, onye na-ese ihe na onye na-eme ihe ike. Ọ na-egosipụtakarị olu ndị Africa-American, yana ikpe ziri ezi na-elekọta mmadụ n'ọrụ ya. A na-ekesa ihe osise dijitalụ ya na mgbasa ozi mgbasa ozi ma gosipụta ya na Times Square, *Washington Post* na *New York Times* .

## Ndụ mmalite na agụmakwụkwọ
Nikkolas Smith zụlitere na Spring, Texas dịka ọdụdụ n'ime ụmụaka isii.  O nwetara akara ugo mmụta masters na architecture na Mahadum Hampton dị na Virginia, ebe o sere eserese ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị maka akwụkwọ ụlọ akwụkwọ ahụ.  Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ, Smith kwagara Los Angeles, ebe ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka Disney Imagineer ruo 2019. 

## Ọrụ nka
Smith na-akọwa onwe ya dị ka "onye na-ese ihe", na-ejikọta mmemme n'ime ọrụ nka ya.  Pọtụfoliyo nke ihe osise Smith dị na nhazi site na pop ruo na onye na-eme ihe ngosi, nke e sere na iPad ya na Photoshop .   Nina Simone na Norman Rockwell na-emetụta ọrụ ya.   Smith malitere usoro ihe nkiri Sunday ya na 2013.  Ọ na-ekerịta sket Sunday kwa izu na ọwa Twitter na Instagram; a chịkọtara onyonyo n'usoro a n'ime akwụkwọ.  

Smith bụ onye ode akwụkwọ na onye na-egosi akwụkwọ foto ụmụaka.  Ọ kọwara akwụkwọ foto *bụ The 1619 Project: Born on the Water* (2021), nke Nikole Hannah-Jones ' The 1619 Project sitere n'ike mmụọ nsọ.  *Ụlọ ọrụ ngwa ngwa* kọwara ihe atụ Smith dị ka iji akara Africa, palette agba dị iche iche, na ọdịdị ihu na-ese nke ọma iji gosi mmadụ nke ndị ohu.  *Amụrụ na mmiri* họọrọ nọmba nke mbụ na New York Times Best Seller List Ụdị Foto Ụmụaka  ma tinye ya na *Oge maka Ụmụaka*, Best Children's na YA akwụkwọ ndepụta nke e bipụtara na 2021.  Ihe osise Smith sitere na Olimpik Summer Summer 2016 na Brazil gara n'ihu ọha na mgbasa ozi ọha. Skyhorse Publishing nyere ya akwụkwọ nkwekọrịta, nke rụpụtara na 2016 akwụkwọ *Golden Girls nke Rio* .  A họpụtara *Golden Girls nke Rio* maka 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Children . 

Nkà ya na-egosikarị ndị uwe ojii na-emegbu ndị mmadụ, ndị na-ahụ maka ikike obodo, ndị na-eme egwuregwu, na ihe ngosi omenala . Smith malitere ịtinye mmemme n'ime nka ya na-esochi ogbugbu nke Trayvon Martin . N'ọnwa Julaị afọ 2013, ihe osise ya nke Martin Luther King Jr. yi uwe mkpuchi wee malite nje.  Black Lives Matter nyere Smith ọrụ ka ọ gbaa George Floyd na 2020. E gosipụtara ọrụ a rụchara dị ka ebe etiti na bọọdụ mgbasa ozi Times Square, yana nnukwu ụlọ ahịa Beverly Center dị na Los Angeles. Ọ na-esekwa ihe osise nke Tamir Rice, Tony McDade,  Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery,  Philando Castile, Bree Newsome, na Lupita Nyong'o .  Na 2020, enwere obodo ndị na-ese ihe mepụtara ọrụ mgbasa ozi mmekọrịta metụtara BLM, gụnyere Smith, Shirien Damra, Stormy Nesbit, Dani Coke, Robin Hilkey, na Miriam Mosqueda.  

Smith mepụtara ihe osise dijitalụ nke Chadwick Boseman dị 11 site na 10 mgbe Boseman nwụsịrị site na ọrịa kansa eriri afọ na Ọgọst 2020. Ihe osise a, aha ya bụ *Eze Chad*, na-egosi Boseman, bụ onye na-egwu T'Challah na ihe nkiri ahụ *Black Panther*, na-enye ekele "Wakanda Forever" maka nwatakịrị na-eyi ihe mkpuchi Black Panther. E gosipụtara eserese ahụ nwa oge na Downtown Disney na California.   Smith nyere ihe osise ya nke *Eze Chad* na Ụlọ Ọgwụ Ụmụaka Los Angeles, ebe ọ na-egosipụta na-adịgide adịgide. 

Ihe atụ ndị ọzọ nke ọrụ Smith gụnyere akwụkwọ mmado maka ihe nkiri dị ka *ezigbo ndị ọcha*, *Ọ bụrụ na Beale Street nwere ike ikwu okwu*, *Southside with You*, na *Black Panther* . Art Basel kpọrọ Smith ka o mepụta akara ngosi maka mkpọsa "ihe dị mkpa" ya na 2019.  Ọnụ ọgụgụ ndị a ma ama ejirila ọrụ Smith na-arụ ọrụ na mgbasa ozi mgbasa ozi, gụnyere Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Nipsey Hussle,  na Janet Jackson .  Ekesara eserese dijitalụ ya nke Aatiana Jefferson n'ala nke Ụlọ Nnọchiteanya US . 

## Ndụ onwe onye
Smith lụrụ onye na-eme ihe nkiri. Di na nwunye ahụ nwere nwa nwoke.  

## Ntụaka

Òtù:Mmadụ ndi di ndụ