MARSHALL FREDERICKS ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
  • HOME
  • BLOG
  • Resources
  • Create
    • Botanical Ornament
    • Coloring Pages
    • Draw and Share
    • From Drawing to Wire Sculpture
    • Paper Mache
    • Sculpt And Share
    • Soap Carving
  • S.T.E.A.M.
    • Outdoor Sculpture
    • The Science of Metal Casting
    • Sculpture Garden Plant Life
  • Virtual Exhibitions
    • John Brown
    • Off Kilter
    • Exposure
    • Monuments
    • Mosaic
    • Carl Fredericks
    • Harold Neal
    • Tradition Interrupted
    • Notes From the Quarantimes
    • Luis Garza Photographs
    • RBJSE 2021
    • Michigan Modern
    • Form Foundations
    • Hip Hop Icons
    • Mark Beltchenko: SOS
    • Explorations in Wood
  • Virtual Field Trip
  • Virtual Tour
  • NEA Big Read
    • What is Big Read?
    • House on Mango Street
    • Big Read Calendar
    • Mi Casa, Su Casa >
      • Story Library
    • Big Read Survey
    • Public Art Project >
      • Bay County Art Project
      • Midland County Art Project
      • Saginaw County Art Project
  • Art in Community
    • John Brown Contest
    • MAC
  • HOME
  • BLOG
  • Resources
  • Create
    • Botanical Ornament
    • Coloring Pages
    • Draw and Share
    • From Drawing to Wire Sculpture
    • Paper Mache
    • Sculpt And Share
    • Soap Carving
  • S.T.E.A.M.
    • Outdoor Sculpture
    • The Science of Metal Casting
    • Sculpture Garden Plant Life
  • Virtual Exhibitions
    • John Brown
    • Off Kilter
    • Exposure
    • Monuments
    • Mosaic
    • Carl Fredericks
    • Harold Neal
    • Tradition Interrupted
    • Notes From the Quarantimes
    • Luis Garza Photographs
    • RBJSE 2021
    • Michigan Modern
    • Form Foundations
    • Hip Hop Icons
    • Mark Beltchenko: SOS
    • Explorations in Wood
  • Virtual Field Trip
  • Virtual Tour
  • NEA Big Read
    • What is Big Read?
    • House on Mango Street
    • Big Read Calendar
    • Mi Casa, Su Casa >
      • Story Library
    • Big Read Survey
    • Public Art Project >
      • Bay County Art Project
      • Midland County Art Project
      • Saginaw County Art Project
  • Art in Community
    • John Brown Contest
    • MAC
  MARSHALL FREDERICKS ONLINE EXHIBITIONS

Jon Onye Lockard (1932-2015

Picture
Lockard was born in Detroit in 1932. As a teen he apprenticed with a sign painter who helped him later in life with mural projects. He took classes at the Pen and Palette Club. He studied at Wayne State University graduating in 1955. He also studied also at Meinzinger Foundation Art School. At WSU he was told by a faculty member to not paint black people if he wanted to make it in the art world.

He became an itinerant portrait painter at trade shows and fairs in the 50s and 60s. He took a middle name of “Onye” as it means traveler in a Nigerian language. He opened Studio 21 an art store, studio and gallery in Detroit. Eventually he moved his studio to Ann Arbor in 1965.

He became involved with Black Nationalists in the mid 1960s. He felt fine arts can be produced for the masses and he devoted his energy to this thought. His style was realistic, and he said his art should be readable by laymen as well as art connoisseurs. He created inexpensive reproductions of his work which made it affordable to a wide audience.
​
In 1968 he joined with Black Students Union at Washtenaw Community College to demand the formation of a Black Studies department in which he also taught at starting in 1969. In 1970 he founded the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He taught over 40 years at these institutions. He was heavily invested in the heritage of Black Americans and created murals on this topic. In 2010, he had a retrospective exhibition at the University of Michigan called Africentricity. He also served as an art advisor for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC.