{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"NKATA: Art and Processes","title":"EP19 (Part 2): “I Want to Plant my Flag with You All Over Here” - Nkata with Njideka Akunyili Crosby","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5043,"description":"Part Two of a two-part conversation.\nNjideka Akunyili Crosby’s portrait The Obamas: Springing Forth marks another chapter in an illustrious career shaped by Nigerian life, family histories and movement between cultures.\nContinuing her conversation with Emeka Okereke, she opens a window onto the decisions, uncertainties and encounters within her practice. From the Obama portrait to Lagos and Igbo proverbs, their exchange follows the relationships and inherited knowledge that sustain her work, including the foundations laid by her mother and father.\nFor artists, students, researchers and curious listeners, this concluding part offers insight into how lived experience becomes artistic language—and how a practice continues to grow.\nBegin with Part One \nIn this conversation\n- The artistic demands of a major portrait commission\n- Uncertainty, attention and the decisions within a painting\n- Images, specificity and the experience of recognition\n- Lagos, Invisible Borders and the importance of encounter\n- Family, language and knowledge across generations\nChapters\n00:00:00 Painting Through uncertainty\n00:17:43 Inside the Obama Portrait\n00:32:26 Making the Images Yours\n00:43:48 A Painting as Journey\n00:51:09 Returning to Lagos\n01:03:53 Invisible Borders\n01:15:17 The Wisdom of Ilu\nAbout the guest\nNjideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-born artist based in Los Angeles. Working across painting, drawing, collage and photographic transfer, she brings family histories, everyday spaces and Nigerian popular culture into compositions that hold multiple places and experiences together.\nExplore further\n- NKATA Podcast\n- Njideka Akunyili Crosby — artist profile and work\n- The Obamas: Springing Forth — Obama Foundation\n- Invisible Borders — The Trans-African Project\nListen to more conversations from Art & Processes at NKATA Podcast.\nPortrait of Njideka Akunyili Crosby by Shaughn and John","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/m6t1jHrPW_j3FTBxXG9Pjv32ay1-B6VeaKfzwMNRMR4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMGVi/NDM3ZGQ4MDE1ZDc1/MzFkYzkzNmVhZTMz/MDFiNS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}