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BIOGRAPHYMARCIA KUREContemporary Art Center, for studentsfrom Bethune Elementary School, Atlanta(October 12 – November 16).Participating Artist, Family HistoryArtbook Project (fall) organized by TheContemporary Art Center, for studentsfrom Bethune Elementary School, C. W.Hill Elementary School, Atlanta (Oct. 6 –Nov. 19).Artist Lecture, Art and Art HistoryDepartment, University of Iowa, Iowa City(October 22).Artist Lecture and Presentation to theAfrican Art Class, St. Lawrence University,Canton, NY, (February 26).2000 Conducted Drawing Workshop forstudents, Spellman College, Atlanta ArtistLecture, Third Sunday, organized byArtists in ResidenceInternational and Raid Road Earth, Atlanta(November 21).Lecture on Drawing for students, AtlantaInternational School, Atlanta (November17).Presented paper at the conference: LivingTradition in Africa and the Americas: TheLegacy of Melville J. and Frances S.Herskovits. NorthwesternUniversity, Evanston, IL, (April 4).1992 Printmaking Workshop directed byWillibrord Haas. University of Nigeria,Nsukka.House, Sweden.Art Project, “Dressed Up”, ESOPUS 14,Esopus Foundation Limited, New York.2007 Cover image, “The Horsemen and OtherPoems” by Obi Nwakanma, Africa WorldPress Inc.2006 Cover Image, Meridians: feminism, race,transnationalism. Vol. 6, Number 2, SmithCollege, Northhampton, MA.2001 Art work for 2003 United NationsConvention on Biological Diversity, TheUnited Nations Framework Convention onClimatic Change, and United NationsConvention to Combat Desertification)Calendar.1999 Mural commissioned by the City ofLangenhagen, Germany. (Jointly executedwith Dorothee Aschoff).PRIZE/AWARDS/GRANTS2007- 2008 Smithsonian Artist ResearchFellowshipProgram Puffin Grant for “Burqua asShelter”, Sculpture, Charleston SC.2004 Elena Prentice Rulon-Miller ScholarshipFund/Minority Work Study Grant,Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.1999 UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists.1994 Uche Okeke Prize for Drawing.COLLECTIONSThe Newark Museum, New Jersey.United States Embassy, Abuja, Nigeria.COMMISSIONS2010 Cover Image, “Measuring Time” by HelonHabila, Swedish Edition, Tranan PublishingTEACHING2004 Teaching Internship, St. Mark’s School,Southborough, MA (Feb. 6 – Mar. 6)2002- 2004 Art Teacher, Friends School ofAtlanta2002 Art Instructor, Art for Women’s EconomicEmpowerment, A Program of the FultonCounty Arts Council, Atlanta.Art Instructor, Greater Vine CityOpportunities Program, An After School
BIOGRAPHYMARCIA KUREProgram /Summer Program for ChildrenAged 6-14, Vine City, Atlanta.PUBLICATIONS (Art works)Position International Arts Review of Books 1:(2001) Illustrated Karim Traoré, Die Verlobte DesMarabut: Märchen & Mythen aus Westafrika.Aachen: Misereor Medien, 1999.Two Paintings in 2002 Multichoice AfricaCalendar, African Artists of the Future.Illustration in 2003 UNCBD/UNFCCC/ UNCCD (TheUnited Nations Convention on BiologicalDiversity, The United Nations FrameworkConvention on Climatic Change, andUnited Nations Convention to CombatDesertification) Calendar.Other drawings published in:Okike: African Journal of New WritingNsukka Journal of The HumanitiesGraffiti Festac News.BOOKS/MONOGRAPHSEnwezor Okwui, Chika Okeke-Agulu,“Contemporary African Art Since 1980.”Damiani, 2009.Ogbechie, Sylvester, “Zaria Art Society and the UliMovement, Nigeria.” In N’Gone Fall andJeanLoup Pivin (eds.), An Anthology of African Art:The Twentieth Century. New York:DAP/Distributed Art Publishers Inc.,2002, p. 249.Jegede, Dele, Women to Women: WeavingCultures, Shaping History. Terre Haute(IN): University Art Gallery, Indiana StateUniversity, 2000, pp. 1-10, 15-22, 23, 25,28, 33, 37.Aas, Norbert, “Spinning Ideas, Knotting Threadsand Interweaving Art Scenes: art arc andthe Promotion of Contemporary AfricanArt.” In Chike C. Aniakor and C. KrydzIkwuemesi (eds.), Crossroads: Africa in theTwilight. Lagos: The National Gallery ofArt, 1999, pp. 139-144.Aas, Norbert, Eine Kunstlerin aus Nigeria: MARCIAKURE 1998. Bayreuth: Iwalewa Haus,1998.Ottenberg, Simon, New Traditions from Nigeria:Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group.Washington/ London: The SmithsonianInstitution Press/The National Museum ofAfrican Art. 1997, pp. 153, 219, 262.Eisenhofer, Stephan (ed.), Kulte, Kuunstler, Konigein Africa - Tradition und Moderne inSuudnigeria. Linz: Landesmuseum. 1997,pp. 407, 414, 455-458.Oguibe, Olu (ed.), Crossing: Time. Space.Movement. Santa Monica: Smart ArtPress, 1997, 34-37, 64, 67.Oguibe, Olu, “Beyond Visual Pleasures: A BriefReflection on the Work of ContemporaryAfrican Women Artists.” In Salah Hassan(ed.), Gendered Visions: The Art ofContemporary Africana Women Artists.Trenton (NJ): Africana World Press, Inc.1997, pp. 63-72.Aas, Norbert (ed.), Oshogbo-Nsukka: ZweiRichtungen in der zeitgenössischen KunstNigerias. Kulturkreis Gersthofen. 1996.Guez, Nicole (ed.), L’Art Africain Contemporain.Paris: Association Afrique en Créations.1996.BIBLIOGRAPHYCotter, Holland, “Nigeria in the Middle of Newark:Some of Simon Ottenberg’s Gifts in ‘TheArt of Translation’”, THE NEW YORKTIMES, 15 August 2013. P. C25.Cotter, Holland, “Marcia Kure: ‘Tease’”, THE NEW
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