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

The influence of the Nigerian publication Black Orpheus extended far beyond the African continent. Read More