Be Your Own Artist w/ artist Dr Imo Nse Imeh
Our guest this week is Dr. Imo Nse Imeh professor of art and art history at Wayne State University. Imo is an amazing draftsman that intertwines his drawing practice with his art history practice. We get to the love and passion behind his amazing drawings including his Benediction series. We discuss his approach to teaching in 2021, give a shout-out to the people that inspired Imo to pursue art history, and how his commitment to making and drawing manifested during his time at Yale University. It’s a great conversation that highlights the need to follow your own path and be your own artist. Listen, subscribe and share!
Episode 120 topics include:
teaching in institutions
rediscovering your voice
the love for art history
making space to draw
Benediction series
racial incidents in academia
the beauty of lines
painting vs drawing
Feeding the Veins of the Earth (Grounded Angel) by Dr Imo Nse Imeh
Dr. Imo Nse Imeh is a Nigerian-American visual artist and scholar of African Diaspora art. Presently, he is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Westfield State University in Massachusetts. He is a Columbia University alumnus, and received his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Art History from Yale University in 2009.
Dr. Imeh leverages his practice of visual art and research in art history to investigate historical and philosophical issues around the black body and cultural identity. He has made contributions to visual arts discourse with publications, lectures, and provoking studio art projects that interrogate the ways in which black bodies are imagined, installed, ritualized, and transformed. Recently, his art has been recognized by PBS News Hour, New England Public Media, Orion Magazine, and the contemporary art and culture magazine Art New England.
See More: www.imoimeh.com + Imo Nse Imeh IG: @imoimeh
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