Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Napoleon Jones-Henderson was born in Chicago in 1943. He was awarded a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1971, and pursued graduate studies at Northern Illinois University in 1974. In 2005, he received a MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art. He has been an active member of AfriCOBRA since 1969 and is the longest standing member of the group.
During the formative years of AfriCOBRA, Jones-Henderson created large pictorial weavings that were included in the group’s important series of exhibitions mounted at the Studio Museum in Harlem in the early 1970s. He has taught in the art departments of several American institutions, including Malcolm X College in Chicago, Massachusetts College of Art, Emerson College in Boston and Benedict College in Columbia, SC.“My work in its essence is spiritual; meaning-full. We must be about the business of expressing what is beautiful; ourselves.”
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