Community Talk and Poetry Reading

Ozioma Onuzulike

Ceramic Artist, Poet and Academic
Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Nigeria

Thursday September 14, 2023, 6-7:30 PM

Free to the Public

 Black Box Theatre at HVMOCA
1701 Main Street
Peekskill NY 10566

Mr. Onuzulike explores the aesthetic, symbolic and metaphoric nature of clay.  His recent work, currently on view at HVMOCA and at Marc Straus LLC in Manhattan, is inspired by such natural resources as yam tubers, palm kernel shells and honeycombs that he produces in ceramic in mass amounts and weaves together laboriously into Afro Centric tapestries referencing the slave trade and the imbalance in political relations between Africa and the West.   A deeply religious person, his poetry sings to the ethereal in us all.