Daughter of late Dora Akunyili awarded MacArthur Fellowship
Akunyili Crosby mixes painting, drawing, photo transfer, printmaking and other materials to make art.
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The MacArthur Fellowship, also referred to as the Genius Grant, awards $625,000 to artists, writers, teachers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and people from all works of life who have shown exceptional creativity.
The grant is doled out in instalments, made over a period of five years.
Amongst past recipients is writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who received the grant in 2008.
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Crosby was described by the foundation as “a figurative painter whose large-scale works express the hybridity characteristic of transnational experience through choices of subject matter, materials, and techniques.”
She says she draws experience from her life as a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman who lives and works in the United States.
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