Artist-Couple Chika Okeke-Agulu and Marcia Kure Lecture as Part of Couples Discourse Series
November 2, 2006
Artists Chika Okeke-Agulu and Marcia Kure will present a lecture on their work at the Palmer Museum of Art on Tuesday, November 7, at 2:30 p.m. in conjunction with the exhibition Couples Discourse.
Kure and Okeke-Agulu recently showed their work in a joint exhibition at St. Lawrence University titled Homeland, Wonderland: Drawings by Chika Okeke-Agulu and Marcia Kure.
Okeke-Agulu, an artist, art historian, and poet, is a member of the Penn State art history faculty and teaches classes in classical, modern, and contemporary African art history and theory. He has had articles and reviews published in African Arts, the Glendora Review, and in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, for which he now serves as senior editor. Okeke-Agulu is a graduate of the University of Nigeria and earned a master's degree in African art history from the University of South Florida and a doctorate from Emory University.
Kure is a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and also attended art residency programs in Germany. She has had solo exhibitions in The Hague, The Netherlands, Lagos, Nigeria, Germany, and the United States. She has participated in numerous group shows and has earned residencies from Artists in Residence International, Inc., Atlanta, the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida, and at the Kulturkries Gerstofen-Art Arc in Germany. She was awarded the Uche Okeke Prize for Drawing in 1994, the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists in 1999, and was included in the Multichoice Africa "African Artists of the Future" calendar for 2002.
Couples Discourse, which will be on view at the Palmer Museum of Art through December 15, 2006, brings together twenty-one artist-couples from New York, Los Angeles, and the Midwest. Dual-career rather than collaborative duos, these contemporary couples have enjoyed long and productive careers in the company of life partners whose passions and interests have been and remain centered on the creation of art.
Lectures in conjunction with the exhibition will be held in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium at the Palmer Museum of Art and are sponsored by the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art, the Diversity Committee of the College of Arts and Architecture, and the John M. Anderson Endowment, School of Visual Arts, Penn State. Admission is free.
For more information about the lecture series and other programs and events being offered in conjunction with the exhibition, visit www.psu.edu/dept/palmermuseum.
The Palmer Museum of Art on the Penn State University Park campus is a free-admission arts resource for the University and surrounding communities. The museum is located on Curtin Road and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.
Contact: Robin Seymour, 814-863-9182