Jon Onye Lockard
Jon Onye Lockard (January 25, 1932 – March 25, 2015) was an American muralist, painter, professor, historian, and activist. Lockard's early-to-mid career was centered around the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He was a founding faculty member of the Department of Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Also recorded as Jon Lockard
Jon Onye Lockard
- Name
- Jon Onye Lockard
- Born
- 25 January 1932
- Birthplace
- Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- Died
- 25 March 2015
- Place of death
- Ypsilanti, Michigan
- Occupation
- muralist, painter, professor, historian, activist
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- painting · illustration
- Movements
- Black Arts Movement
- Education
- Wayne State University · University of Toronto · Meinzinger Art School
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Jon Onye Lockard (January 25, 1932 – March 25, 2015) was an American muralist, painter, professor, historian, and activist. Lockard's early-to-mid career was centered around the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He was a founding faculty member of the Department of Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Jon Onye Lockard. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- unresolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q100239999 · wikipedia · Jon Onye Lockard
In this article
Biography
Biography
Additionally, he served as a senior art advisor for the installation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. After witnessing the founding of the AfriCOBRA group at Jeff Donaldson's CONFABA in 1967, Lockard adopted the name "Onye" after "Onye Eje", meaning "artistic traveler" in the Igbo language. He went on to become a life-long member of the National Conference of Artists after serving as president. His artwork is known to have been in the private collections of prominent public figures such as Gwendolyn Brooks, George Benson, Jacob Javits, Coleman Young, Sidney Poitier, and James Earl Jones.
Jon Onye Lockard studied at Wayne State University, University of Toronto and Meinzinger Art School. The field of work recorded is painting and illustration. Places of work recorded in the authority are Detroit. Employment is recorded with University of Michigan and Washtenaw Community College.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Jon Onye Lockard • Born — 25 January 1932 • Birthplace — Detroit, Michigan, U.S. • Died — 25 March 2015 • Place of death — Ypsilanti, Michigan • Other Names — "Onye", "Onye Eje" • Occupation — muralist, painter, professor, historian, activist
Early life
Early life
Lockard was born to Lillian Jones and Cecil E. Lockard on January 25, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan's east side. Both Lockard's parents were from the South; Jones hailing from Port Arthur, Mississippi and Lockard from Marianna, Arkansas.
Career and activity
Career and activity
Jon Onye Lockard worked in painting and illustration. His work is associated with Black Arts Movement. He was employed by University of Michigan and Washtenaw Community College. He belonged to National Conference of Artists. He worked at Detroit.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1932
Jon Onye Lockard born at Detroit.
2015
Jon Onye Lockard died at Ann Arbor.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Detroit.
Birth place
Ann Arbor.
Death place
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 25 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Paintings
18,792 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Johnny MadsenArtist
- JoKarl HuberArtist
- Jon LarsenArtist
- Jon McNaughtonArtist
- Jón StefánssonArtist
- Jonas BergmanArtist
- Jonas BurgertArtist
- Jonas Carl LinnerhielmArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Jon Onye Lockard?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.