Calvin B. Jones

**Calvin Bell Jones** (Jenụwarị úbọchị asaá, 1934 rụọ Ọgọst ubochí irí abụọ na otu, 2010) bụ ónyé na-ese ihe nkiri na ónyé na-eme ihe nkiri Black Arts Movement si Chicago. A maara ya karịsịa màkà mgbidi na ihe osise itoolu ya.

E nyere ya agụmakwụkwọ zuru oke iji gaa Chicago Institute of Art ma nata BFA ya na eserese / eserese na ihe osise na 1957. Ọrụ afọ iri na asaa mbụ Jones rụrụ bụ na mgbasa ozi. Ọ bụ ónyé nduzi nka Africa America mbụ nke Hallmark Cards ma rụọ ọrụ màkà ụlọ ọrụ mgbasa ozi ojii mbụ, Vince Cullers Advertising (nke e guzobere na 1956). Tụkwasị na nke a, Jones rụrụ ọrụ na ụlọ ọrụ nke ya, Sales Graphics Advertising.

Malite na 1976, ọ ghọrọ ónyé isi mural ọbọdọ na Chicago ma soro Mitchell Caton rụkọọ ọrụ na mural isii nke Chicago. Tụkwasị na nke a, akwụkwọ mural nke Jones gụnyere mural na Detroit na Atlanta.: 254 

## Ndụ onwe onye
N'afọ 1950, Jones lụrụ Irene Tabron. Ha nwèrè nwá nwoke, Byron Jones na 1950s.

N'afọ 1960, Jones mepụtara keratoconus, ọnọdụ corneal nke na-akpata mgbagwoju anya anya. Ọnọdụ ahụ mèrè ka o kpuo ìsì n'ụzọ iwu maka ọtụtụ ógè ndụ ya. O kwuru na ọ mèrè ka ọ "hụ ìhè dị ka kaleidoscope, ugboro asatọ". Faheem Majeed, South Side Community Arts Center Executive Director na curator, kwuru na ọ bụ arụmụka ma ọ bụrụ na o mepụtara ihe ọ hụrụ ma ọ bụ ma ọ bụrụ n'ụzọ ebumnuche na-emepụta ihe oyiyi. Jones natara cornea transplantation na 1980s nke weghachiri anya ya.

Ọnọdụ akụrụ Jones kara njọ mgbè ọ nọ na California na-eleta ónyé mmekọ ya Cynthia Ross. Ọ jụrụ dialysis. A na-ekewa ntụ ya n'etiti oké ọhịa redwood nke California na ezinụlọ ya dị ndụ.25 Nwa ya nwoke Byron na nwanne ya nwanyị Alletta Jumper hapụrụ ya.

A na-edebe akwụkwọ ya na Chicago Public Library

## Ihe osise mara mma
E gosipụtara ihe osise Jones na mba ụwa (Senegal na Nigeria). E tinyere ọrụ ya na nka na Chicago, ngosi 1945-1995.

Ihe osise nkè ọrụ nka mbụ ya gụnyere ndị Africa America na-emegide ụkpụrụ na-echetara akwa Africa. Ihe osise Jones mechara bụrụ ihe na-enweghị atụ na 1980s ma jiri ihe osise dị egwu na nke nwere agba dị egwu, na-etinyekarị ihe na ihe osise dịka ụgbụgbọ osisi, arịa ọkụ, ábụ́bà, ákwà a na-acha odo odo na akwụkwọ-mache.

## Ihe ngosi onwe onye

* 1971, 1972 na 1973 South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, IL
* 1970 1976 AFAM Gallery and Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
* 1978 Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago, IL
* 1979 Martin/Caraway Galleries, Dallas, TX
* 1987 South Shore Bank, Chicago, IL
* 1992 African World Festival, Detroit, MI
* 1992 Ụlọ Egwuregwu Apollo, Harlem Week, New York, NY
* 1992 National Conference of Artists, Michigan Chapter Gallery, Detroit, MI
* 1992 ETA Creative Art Foundation, Chicago, IL
* 1992 Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* 1992 Art Institute nke Chicago, Illinois
* 1993 African World Festival, Detroit, MI
* 1993 Mahadum Howard, Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
* 1998 Isobel Neal Gallery Ltd., Chicago, IL, "Calvin Jones in Living Color"
* 2002 Elmhurst College, Elmhurist, IL
* 2012 Aka ekpe nke Center Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, "Na Retrospective: Calvin B. Jones"

## Ihe ngosi ndị a họọrọ

* 1955, 1973 Art Institute nke Chicago, IL
* 1974 World's Fair, Black Art Pavilion, Spokane, WA
* 1975 Malcolm X Community College, Chicago, IL
* 1977 International Festac, Lagos, Nigeria
* 1980 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
* 1980 Martin Luther King Regional Library, Washington, D.C.
* 1989 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
* 1989 ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
* 1989 Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA
* 1990 Harold Washington Library Center, Permanent Art Collection
* 1990 Chicago International Art Exhibition
* 1992 National NAACP Convention, Nashville, TN
* 1992 National Urban League Convention, San Diego, CA
* 1992 U.S. Congress Black Caucus Convention, Washington, D.C.
* 1992 Africamicas Festival, Philadelphia, PA
* 1993 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "M na-echeta...Afọ iri atọ mgbe March on Washington gasịrị: Foto nke Civil Rights Movement 1963-1993.
* 2001 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY, "Art of the Masters: A Survey of African American Images, 1980-2000",
* 2014 Left of Center Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, "Rhythms of Africa" ngosi, akụkụ nke "The Museum Collection of African Art"

## Onyinye

* 1980 Nchịkọta Black Studies
* 1981 South Shore Cultural Counsel Award maka "Most Significant Community Contribution"
* 1981 National Black Studies Conference Muralist Award
* 1982 Onye na-ese ihe, Mahadum Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
* 1979 na 1983 The National Conference of Artists' First Aaron Douglas Muralist Award
* 1984 Nchịkọta nke ndị America a ma ama
* 1988 Kappa Alpha Psi Achievement Award na nka
* 1986 1989 Ònye bụ Ònye n'etiti ndị isi ojii na America
* 1981 1948 Ònye bụ Ònye na nka America
* 1991 Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence for Public Art
* 1992 ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Our Epic Men of the 20th Century

## Edensibia

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