Video: Odili Donald Odita, Emmanuel Odita, and the Zaria Art Society
In 2011, NOMA commissioned the mural Forever by artist Odili Donald Odita—on permanent view in the museum—to commemorate the 100th birthday of the museum. Read More
In 2011, NOMA commissioned the mural Forever by artist Odili Donald Odita—on permanent view in the museum—to commemorate the 100th birthday of the museum. Read More
In conjunction with Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club, exhibition curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba speaks with several scholars about their experiences in Nigeria in the 1960s. Read More
Tia Williams, Visitor Experience Floor Lead at NOMA, shares one of her favorite works in Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club. Read More
Jessica Johnson, NOMA’s Creative Aging and Access Coordinator, shares one of her favorite works in Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club—a painting by Gwendolyn Knight of the artist’s birthplace of Barbados. Read More
Born in Edo state, Nigeria, in 1942, Colette Oluwabamise Omogbai exhibited surrealist paintings at the Mbari Club in Ibadan in 1963 at the invitation of Black Orpheus founder Ulli Beier. Read More