30 Facts About Barbara Jones-Hogu

Barbara Jones-Hogu was an African-American artist best known for her work with the Organization of Black American Culture and for co-founding the artists' collective AfriCOBRA.

Barbara Jones-Hogu received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Barbara Jones-Hogu earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Institute of Design in Chicago, as well as a master's degree in printing from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Barbara Jones-Hogu later pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Independent Film and Digital Imaging at Governors State University while in her early seventies.

Barbara Jones-Hogu wished to earn the degree to document artists and their work.

Barbara Jones-Hogu had one son, Kuumba Hogu, who has remarked that he wanted his mother to be remembered through her artwork.

Barbara Jones-Hogu became involved in printing while studying at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Barbara Jones-Hogu was able to use printmaking facilities at the Institute of Design.

In 1968, Barbara Jones-Hogu co-founded AfriCOBRA, a collective of African-American artists based in Chicago.

Barbara Jones-Hogu created the work "Resist Law and Order in a Sick Society" due to these events.

Barbara Jones-Hogu printed at the Illinois Institute of Technology, as she did not have a studio at the time.

Barbara Jones-Hogu produced many works with the flag for her thesis at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Barbara Jones-Hogu said that makers of the documentary wished to ask young "radical" African-Americans about the potential turmoil in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Barbara Jones-Hogu remembered that she spoke on "the racial and the political attitudes and conditions in the city".

Barbara Jones-Hogu wished to display more positive issues in her politics, and this was a philosophy echoed by AfriCOBRA.

Around 1973, Barbara Jones-Hogu shifted from primarily painting to drawing, and to a lesser degree printmaking, as her son would become ill from paint fumes.

Barbara Jones-Hogu had her first solo show involving her prints and drawings.

Barbara Jones-Hogu started to prepare prints for other artists' work in AfriCOBRA.

Barbara Jones-Hogu felt that her printmaking abilities set her apart, as many artists in AfriCOBRA were painters.

Barbara Jones-Hogu started to do block printing and intaglio, and later moved on to making silkscreen prints once she opened her own shop.

Barbara Jones-Hogu did lithographs for fundraising, and Sammy Davis Jr.

Barbara Jones-Hogu briefly served on the board of the South Side Community Art Center, and was heavily involved with it throughout her life.

Barbara Jones-Hogu later remarked in an interview that she was told that people had complained about the number of times her work was exhibited at the center, which ended her run of exhibitions there.

Barbara Jones-Hogu did not have a one-person show at the center, but exhibited with artists such as Napoleon Jones-Henderson.

Barbara Jones-Hogu started do much work with pastels and colored pencils starting in the late 1970s and the early 1980s.

Barbara Jones-Hogu created a portrait of Lurlean Dean that Lurlean's son displayed at Lurlean's memorial service.

Barbara Jones-Hogu's work has appeared in books, including Creating Their Own Image: The History of African American Women Artists, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, and Toward a People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement.

Barbara Jones-Hogu was represented from 2005 on by her art dealer, David Lusenhop of Lusenhop Fine Art, after she met him at an exhibition in which her work was displayed in 2004.

Barbara Jones-Hogu reportedly walked up to him and asked him why she had not received an invitation to the show, as her work was being displayed in it.

Barbara Jones-Hogu reportedly told others that she did not produce much work, but many projects of hers were found, and thus they were collected into an exhibition.