In addition to membership in the aforementioned organizations, Lockard founded his own company, Visions of Destiny, DBA, to share his art with the world and is protected now by the Jon Onye Lockard Foundation.Ĭoncurrently producing an impressive catalog of works over fifty years, Lockard was also a professor and mentor to many at both the University of Michigan and Washtenaw Community College. Most recently, he served as a Senior Art Advisor for the Martin Luther King, Jr. He was Co-Founder and Associate Director of The Society for the Study of African American Culture and Aesthetics, hosted and co-produced The Society's biweekly journal of cultural affairs, “Sankofa”, previously aired on Barden Cable Television of Detroit. His expressions are made at every scale for every body, from 1995’s Ebony Sea, a children's book, written by Irene Smalls, through a roomful of floor to ceiling murals, like "Continuum" at Wayne State University.Īs the former president and lifelong member of the National Conference of Artists (NCA), Lockard guided the group to travel internationally, at one point visiting Goree Island, off the coast of Senegal, West Africa, historic hub of slave trade shipping route. Jon Onye Lockard was ever in pursuit of visually presenting intellectual Black culture and history, whether diving into the African Diaspora, questioning the histories of “accepted norms” or honoring civil rights giants upon whose shoulders future black achievement would become possible.
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