Elmer Lucille Allen

**Elmer Lucille Allen** (amụrụ na Louisville, Kentucky, Ọgọst 23, 1931) bụ onye na-ese seramiiki na onye na-ahụ maka kemist nke gụsịrị akwụkwọ na kọleji Nazareth (nke bụ Mahadum Spalding ugbu a) na 1953.  Aha nna ya na nwanne ya nwoke Elmer na ezinụlọ ahụ họọrọ ịkpọ ya Elmer Lucille.  Ọ ghọrọ onye mbụ African-American chemist na Brown-Forman na 1966. 

## Ndụ mbido
A mụrụ Allen na oge ịda mbà n'obi na Louisville, Kentucky, n'oge ọ ka bụ obodo kewapụrụ iche. N'ajụjụ ọnụ ọ gbara ya, o kwuru na "o nweghị mgbe ya na ndị ọcha gara ụlọ akwụkwọ" ruo mgbe ọ bụ nwata na mahadum.  Ọ gara klas nka mbụ ya, klaasị ịkwa akwa, na klas nke asaa na Madison Street Junior High School. O kwuru na N'ajụjụ ọnụ na onye na-ese ihe mbụ ọ chọpụtara na ya bụ onye nkuzi ya, Oriakụ Hattie Figg, onye kuziri ihe osise n'ogo nke obere. Ọ mụtara ọtụtụ ọrụ aka na-arụ ọrụ n'obere elu, dị ka ịrụzi akpụkpọ ụkwụ, mbipụta, ịkwa akwa, na ịkwa nkà. Ọ mụtakwara ọrụ nka dị iche iche na Plymouth Settlement House na Presbyterian Community Center. Ọ bụkwa nwa agbọghọ Scout, ọrụ a mere ka o nwee mmasị na nka. Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Central High School na 1949, n'oge ụmụ nwanyị Africa-America nwere ohere ole na ole dị ha. Ọ gara Louisville Municipal College, onye na-arụkọ ọrụ, ụlọ akwụkwọ ojii niile site na 1949 ruo 1951 wee gbanwee na Nazareth College ebe ọ bụ otu n'ime ụmụ akwụkwọ ojii ole na ole. Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na nzere bachelọ nke sayensị na kọleji Nazaret na 1953. 

Elmer Lucille Allen tinyere aka na ihe ngosi nka Louisville na 1980s. O nyere aka guzobe Kentucky Coalition of African American Arts ma bụrụkwa onye guzobere Kansụl Arts nke Louisville. 

## Mgbe e mesịrị ọrụ
Allen lara ezumike nká na Brown-Forman na 1997, mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, o tinyere oge ka ukwuu na nkà ya. Malite na 1981 ọ malitere ịmụ nkà na Mahadum Louisville, na-anata Masters of Creative Arts na-elekwasị anya na ceramics na fiber na 2002.  Ọrụ akwa Allen na-agụnye usoro esi esiji shibori . 

N'ikwu okwu banyere ceramics ya, Allen na-ekwu, "Ana m eme ihe ndị m chọrọ, ọ na-amasịkwa m mgbe niile teapots." Obi na-adị ya ụtọ na ọ bụrụ na o mee ihe na-amasị ya, na ọ pụrụ nnọọ ịmaliteghachi ọzọ. Platters ya na-abụkarị ọchịchịrị ma gbazee, ebe ite tea ya mara mma na eserese. Ọ na-ekwu, "Mgbe m gbaziri ụlọ ọrụ mbụ m na 2005 na Mellwood, amaara m na m bụ onye na-ese ihe n'ezie." 

Na 2004, ọ ghọrọ onye mbụ nnata nke Kentucky Arts Council Governor's Award in Arts for Community Arts. 

N'afọ 2019, Imagine 2020 Mural Festival nyere onye na-ese ihe bụ Brandon Marshall iwu ka o mepụta eserese na-eme ememe ndụ Elmer Lucille Allen. 

### Ihe ngosi
ya bụ onye nkuzi ya, Oriakụ Hattie Figg, onye kuziri ihe osise n'ogo nke obere. Ọ mụtara ọtụtụ ọrụ aka na-arụ ọrụ n'obere elu, dị ka ịrụzi akpụkpọ ụkwụ, mbipụta, ịkwa akwa, na ịkwa nkà. Ọ mụtakwara ọrụ nka dị iche iche

* 2010 - "Ọnweghị na Ọnụnọ: Nkà nke Elmer Lucille Allen na Valerie White" na E&S Gallery. 
* 2011 - *Ike imepụta ike: Ikuku, mmanụ ọkụ, ọkụ* na Carnegie Center for Art and History na New Albany, Indiana . 
* 2016 - *Ngosi ihe ngosi nka nke ụmụ nwanyị: Ahụmahụ ihe nketa Africa* na Kentucky Center for African American Heritage . 
* 2020 -- "Ụmụ nwanyị Africa-American: Ememe Diversity na Art" na KORE Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky. 
* 2023 -- "Ncheta," ihe ngosi na-asọpụrụ Lida Gordon site na Bette Levy, Elmer Lucille Allen, Denise Furnish, na Melinda Snyder na PYRO, Louisville, Ky. 

## Ihe nrite

* 1986 – Onyinye Gọvanọ na nka nka (Kentuky) 
* 2004—Ngosipụta ihe nrite ime obodo Kentuky's Community Arts
* 2004-Nwanyị nke Ndịiche
* 2007 - "Ụmụ nwanyị nke Spunk" sitere na Ụlọ ihe nkiri na-eme ihe nkiri
* 2011 – Mahadum Caritas Medal Spalding 
* 2015 – Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft 's Art Advocacy Award 
* 2015- Onyinye mmụọ nke obodo nyere site na Mahadum Louisville College of Arts and Science and the Yearlings Club
* 2016—Parkland Rising Up Project
* 2016 -- Louisville Defender – Ndụ Nnabata Ọrụ Obodo Ndụ
* 2016 - Onye ndu obodo pụtara ìhè site na Kansụl Metro
* 2019 -- Pillars nke Louisville Ọbá akwụkwọ Ọhaneze efu Louisville 

## Ntụaka

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