The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Napoleon Jones-Henderson

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Napoleon Jones-Henderson

4/22/2013

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2013.009

Mixed media artist Napoleon Jones-Henderson (1943 - ) is director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts Inc. and associate professor of art at Benedict College, is the longest standing member of AfriCOBRA. Jones-Henderson was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 4/22/2013, in Boston, Massachusetts. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 13; Total Run Time: 06h 07m 41s

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Napoleon Jones-Henderson was born in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois. Jones-Henderson attended the Sorbonne Student Continuum Student and Artists Center in Paris, France in 1963 where spent one year immersed in an independent study program. Upon returning to the United States, he enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago and received his B.F.A. degree from there in 1971. Jones-Henderson went on to earn with his M.A. degree from Northern Illinois University in 1971 and his M.F.A. degree from the Marylan...