[ EDUCATION | SKILLS | POSITIONS | THEATER | ONE SHOWS | GRP SHOWS | AFRICOBRA | CONTRACTS ] AKILI RON ANDERSON 5005 Illinois Ave. N.W. Washington, DC 20011 (202) 726-7985 Born February 19,1946 in Washington, DC, USA EDUCATION Cardozo High School, Washington, DC (1961-64) Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC (1964-65) Howard University, School of Fine Arts, Washington, DC (1965-69) SKILLS Design and fabrication for Public Art, Theater and Stained Glass; Sculpture; Painting and Drawing; Computer Graphics; Printmaking; Photography, Video and Film making; Carpentry (GoTo Top)

    POSITIONS HELD

• Art and Social Studies Instructor (Oct., 1969-June, 1971)
  Barry New School, Washington, DC

• Artist-in-Residence, DC Commission on the Arts (1971-72,1972-73)
• Film making and Photography Instructor (1971-72)
  Education Department, Corcoran Gallery of Art

• Co-Director, ANTX Hill Artists Workshop (1973-1983)
• Chairperson, Visual Arts Department (Aug., 1973 - Aug., 1974)
  Workshop for Careers in the Arts, George Washington University

• Chairperson, Visual Arts Department (Sept., 1974- June, 1976)
  Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC Public Schools

• Co-Founder (Sept., 1973 - Present)
  NationHouse Positive Action Center, Watoto School; Sankofa Institute

• Manager and Founding Member of "NATION", (1968- Present)
  Combined Music, Visual Arts, Dance and Poetry Performing Ensemble

• Conference Chair, Natl. Conference of Artists, Wash., DC, 1980
• Conference Co-Chair, Natl. Conference of Artists, Wash., DC, 1990
• President and Founder (1983 - Present) NationWorks Art Contracting Inc.

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    THEATER SET DESIGN

• Howard University, Ira Aldridge Theater, (co-design), "Tabernacle", 1969
• Howard University, Ira Aldridge Theater, "Debut", 1969
• Howard University, Ira Aldridge Theater, (Light Design), "Ornette", 1971
• Howard University, Ira Aldridge Theater, (Light Design), "El Hajj Malik", 1971
• George Washington Univ., (Design and Construction, Set Sculpture and Props),
  DC Black Repertory Dance Co. Production, 1974

• DC Black Repertory Theater, "The Lion and the Jewel", 1974
• DC Black Repertory Theater, "Owen's Song", 1974
• Kennedy Center- Eisenhower Theater, "Owen's Song", 1975
• Morgan State University Theater, "Mushy Mouth", 1976
• The Ellington Fund, Everyman Street Theater, 1977-79

    ONE MAN SHOWS

• Duke Univ., 1968
• Howard Univ. Gallery of Art, 1973
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1973
• Metropolitan Applied Research Center, NYC, 1975
• Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp., NYC, 1975
• Weusi Gallery, NYC, 1975
• Miya Gallery, DC, 1976
• The New Muse, Brooklyn, NY, 1977

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    GROUP SHOWS

• Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973
• F. Bader Gallery, DC, 1974
• North Carolina A&T, 1975
• University of Pennsylvania, 1975
• Just Above Mid-Town Gallery, NYC, 1975
• Market Five Gallery, DC, 1976
• FESTAC, Lagos Nigeria, 1977
• "Art in Service of the Lord" Calendars and Exhibits, 1993-96
• Schomburg Museum, 1995, NYC
• "Lois Jones and her former students", Howard Univ. Gallery of Art--Fondo Del Sol, 1995
• The Museum of the Natl. Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston Mass., 1996

    "AFRICOBRA" Exhibits (1980 to present)

• Howard Univ. Gallery of Art, AFRICOBRA and GROUPE FROMAJE 1989
• Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC
• Nexus Contemporary Art center, Atlanta, GA 1990
• Florida A&M Univ., Tallahassee, FL
• Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC
• Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
• Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN
• Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
• Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, 1992
• Orlando Museum of Art, 1997; Orlando, FL, 1997
• AFRICOBRA at the Ninth Zora! Festival, Eatonville, FL, 1997
• The Art Atrium II Gallery, Portsmouth, VA, 1998

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    PUBLIC ART CONTRACTS

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