{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"NKATA: Art and Processes","title":"EP19 (Part 1): “I Want to Plant my Flag with You All Over Here” - Nkata with Njideka Akunyili Crosby","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6931,"description":"Part One of a two-part conversation.\nNjideka Akunyili Crosby’s illustrious career has brought Nigerian life and family histories into some of contemporary art’s most significant spaces. A 2017 MacArthur Fellow, she recently created The Obamas: Springing Forth for the Obama Presidential Center.\nIn conversation with Emeka Okereke, she reflects on the foundations laid by her mother and father, growing up in Nigeria, and the crossings and choices that shaped her life in art. Questions of belonging, ambition and trusting an inner compass emerge through personal recollection.\nFor artists, students, researchers and anyone curious about the life behind the work, this opening part offers a closer encounter with the experiences and thinking that nourish her practice.\nIn this conversation\n- The foundations of a celebrated artistic practice\n- Family, upbringing and the worlds that shape an artist\n- Nigeria, migration and the possibilities of a life in art\n- Cultural belonging and defining success on one’s own terms\n- Influence, intuition and the inner compass of making\nChapters\n00:00:00 Introduction of Njideka\n00:03:59 Enugu, Lagos, Home\n00:25:31 Making From Little\n00:31:37 Dora’s Quiet Lessons\n00:40:39 Surviving the Attack\n00:50:28 Moving to America\n01:02:39 Becoming an Artist\n01:13:34 A New Nigerian Culture\n01:23:26 Finding a Visual Language\n01:33:35 Trusting the Inner Compass\n01:47:23 Painting Through Uncertainty\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.\nListen to Part Two\nExplore further\n- NKATA Podcast\n- Njideka Akunyili Crosby — artist profile and work\n- The Obamas: Springing Forth — Obama Foundation\n\nListen to more conversations from Art & Processes at NKATA Podcast.\nPortrait of Njideka Akunyili Crosby by Shaughn...","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}