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St. Lawrence University art professor honored at Nigerian university conference

Posted 7/23/15

CANTON -- A Nigerian university recently hosted a conference in honor of a St. Lawrence University art professor. Obiora Udechukwu, St. Lawrence University Charles A. Dana professor of art and art …

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St. Lawrence University art professor honored at Nigerian university conference

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CANTON -- A Nigerian university recently hosted a conference in honor of a St. Lawrence University art professor.

Obiora Udechukwu, St. Lawrence University Charles A. Dana professor of art and art history, will be one of two African artists honored at the Interdisciplinary African Arts Conference, which took place in Nsukka, Nigeria, from June 24 to 27.

Educated at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Udechukwu taught there for several years before coming to St. Lawrence.

His artwork has been exhibited and included in public collections around the world, including the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., and Nigeria’s National Gallery of Art in Lagos, Nigeria.

He has been instrumental in bringing prominent cultural producers to campus, including novelist Chinua Achebe; Wole Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel Laureate for Literature, and Okwui Enwezor, one of the leading independent curators in the world.

The conference will adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the discourse of the current state of art and artists in Africa and in the African diaspora.