EMMANUEL
Okechukwu
Graphic Artist, Painter Address: Art History Department, Ohio State University, 100 Hayes Hall, 108 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1318, USA. Birth: 1936, in Onitsha, Anambra State. Training: Diploma in fine arts, Nigerian College of Arts, Science& Technology, Zaria, 1962, specializing in painting; MAin printmaking, MFA in painting, University of Iowa, 1965; PhD in history of African art, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1970. Profile: Full name, Emmanuel Okechukwu Odita; teacher, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1962-1966; associate professor/professor, Ohio State University, from 1969; designed book cover, Black Family International Journal, 1985, a reference guide; presented numerous papers at African Studies Association meetings and other symposia in the United States, Canada, South America and Africa; illustrated Okot p’Bitek’s The Song ofa Prisoner and Barbara Nolen’s Africa is Thunder and Wonder: Contemporary Voices from African Literature; belonged to the Zaria Art Society. Solo Exhibitions AmericanSociety of African Culture, West African Centre, Lagos, 1962. Mbari Artists and Writers Club, Enugu, 1963. Continuing Education Center, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1965. “The Art of E. Okechukwu Odita: Paintings, Engravings, Etchings, and Drawings,” Continuing Education Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, June 20-30, 1966. Group Exhibitions Eastern Nigeria Festival of Arts, Enugu, 1955. Independence Exhibition, Lagos, September 20-October 2, 1960. “Five West African Artists,” Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York, USA, 1964. Pan African Arts Exhibition, Accra, Ghana, 1965. First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal, 1966. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition of African Prints, USA, 1966-1968. “African Artists in American:An Exhibition of Workby Twenty AfricanArtists Living in America,” African-American Institute, New York, USA, 1977. “Art Faculty Show,” Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 1978, 1981, 1984-1986, 1988-1990. “Njikoka: The Nigerian Unity,” College of Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, September-October 1980. “African Art: Past and Present,” Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, May 3-May 31, 1982. [and other venues in Ohio]. Odita 315 “OFiOb™^e4m-S,T/90ArtiStS'” 2aneSVi”e Ar’ CentCT’ ZaneSVUIe’ °hio’ USA’ Commissions *S£%%£l5g* °anCerS/’ Depar’ment °< R- ^ Ah™^ Be.lo SsS;Sa^a^^1-"-""^ °«**» Osadebe]. Writings by the Artist "Nigerian Arts and Artists," Nigercol (Zaria) 1960, pages 6-10 ^cy*S£[S3?*of Africa"studies Bulletin (University of Ni*eria< ^pubihedf NL'L'd "' Ni8ena- MA theSiS' University of ,owa' Iowa' 1965- Svf«!nflreT °f Islamism on Ni8erian Art,"%«0««ooJt (Enugu) 1966 Ta^a^T^ "^ (1%8) by U,li Bder' ^*» R^(New York) "sx:^yXol ?sn?7rcan Art/'to^"""—- * Wo Masking Tradition: Its Types, Functions and Interpretations. PhD dissertation 183 iHus Y' An" Arb0n University Microfilms International, 1971. Traditional African Art Columbus: Ohio State University, College of Arts, Division of History of Art, 1971. 76pp. illus., bibliog. division MMeeeetti^nLg oofXthe AAff1ri"ca''"n £S"tuTdW.es\LA,/smso7c'i'aWtio-n,PaPpheirlaPdreelSpheniate,dNaotvtehmeb1e5rth8-A11nnu19a7l2 UESfe and Intra-Diffusion: Igbo Ikenga in Cultural Retrospection> A/r/cfl// Sfwdies Remap (Waltham, MA) 16 (I)- 73-82 1973 “iss s^ttSrTLiterature/’]ourmi °f Biack studies (Beveriy ”AE%xteCntsZo!fCIn^tedrnaFt!io^nra1lSoReTsehaerkch, MinaAthretmEadtuiccaaltioSne;cprerotsc,”eepdpin. g2s3-o3f6a. cIno:nfLeirmenitcseand tthhro^ugZhhthtehAertls’,^Cro’l^umTbu5s,0O^h^io; tehGditUednibteydKSetantneSethSoMcia^ryan^tz aEndduMcatairoynAnn £E nwC\C^ThUS’ °hi°’ DePartmcnt of Art Education, College of the Arts, Ohio State University, 1978 B “Ikenga and Ala Dieties: Their Theme in Form and Content,” Academic Star 3(5) “NAZrt /inn ^A0frdicar,eLmundA,frSc!wkaeidiSekn,KKinalfe”jd,oPsPk-op5,”81″97In8: M0dern Ko”st ‘W** Modern ”CTAwrts!T(rCPoTluamrlAbufrsi,SOoxHA)o3r!(:2)T: h4e-9°r,yN°ofvBeminbtue’rK19u8n0t.u’illSufsc.ok(chonloar)nd Awo,” /„ The The Art of E. Okechukwu Odita; Root, Branch, Fruit and Seed. Paper presented on the occasion of African Culture Week, African Studies Program, University of Ma; Togetherness is Greater. Symposium, National Black Programming Consortium, Columbus, Ohio, October 7-8, 1988. [6]pp. illus. [includes offprint from Arts Insider, November 14, 1988]. ‘Do we Dare?*.Prism (Department of Black Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio) 1 (2): 11-13, summer-autumn, 1988 The Igbo Counts: Number and Pattern in Igbo Body Decoration,” Arts Advocate (College of the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio) 9(2) spring 1989 “Profile of an African Artist: Achameleh DebelaPart I,-JPrism PePf^e^f Black “PrSotfuildeieosf,aOnhAiofrSictaanteAUrntiisvt:erAsictyh,amCeolleuhmDbuesb,elOahPioa)rt I1I(,1’):PUris-mV7P,™itme^ntfo•f Black Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio) 2 (2). 12-18, spring neWes^Africanlmport’s Impulse Volume I. Columbus: West African Imports Corporation, Whitehall, 1990. 12pp. illus. (color). Awards & Honors _ K_, . _ .. , , Three silver medals and five First Class Certificates, Eastern Nigeria Festival of Arts, Enugu, 1955; Federal Scholar, Republic of Nigeria, 1959; AID Scholar, 1963, Aggrey Fellow, 1966. Public Collections University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa. E/e Okou “The Cult of Convention,” [review of exhibition held at American ‘Society of African Culture’s West African Centre, Lagos, 1962]. Nigeria Magazine (Lagos) no. 75: 83-84, December 1962. illus. The Art of E. Okechukwu Odita: Paintings, Engravings, Etchings, and Drawings; [exhibition held at the Continuing Education Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, June 20-30, 1966] / introduction by Obia)Unwa Wall. [Nsukka: University of Nigeria, 1966. 29]pp. illus. Wali, Obi. The Art of E. Okechukwu Odita. Enugu: Ems Printers, 1966 30pp. Tanner, Laura. “The Profile of aContemporary African Artist: E-Okechukwu Odita,” Journal of the New African Literature and the Arts (New York) 13-14. 53-6/, AhSZ/SS* in America, an Exhibition of Work by 10 Africa,i Artists Living in America; [held at the African-American Institute, New York, 1977]. New York: African American Institute, 1977. 9pp. Bigler, Denise. “OSU Exhibit Highlights Faculty Art,” [review o exhibition New Work: College of the Arts Faculty Exhibit 1986,” Sherman Gallery, January 7-26, 19861. The Ohio State Lantern (Columbus) January 13, 1986 page 8. illus. Bigler, Denise. “Painter Stretches Style by Increasing Size of Canvas, Ohio State Lantern (Columbus) February 24, 1986, page 9 illus Ikpang, E. Benson. The West African Imports Impulse. Vol 1. Columbus, OH. West African Imports Corp., 1990. 12pp. illus. (color).
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