Nnenna okore biography of william
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Nnenna Okore was born in Australia in 1975 to parents from Ututu, Nigeria.
Nnenna okore biography of william
At age four, she moved back to Nigeria with her parents who began working at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka. Okore graduated from Primary and Secondary School in Nigeria before moving to Swaziland where her father took on a position for the United Nations and where Okore attended Waterford Kamhlaba United World College.
In 1994, Nnenna Okore won first prize at the UNIFEM Women's Art Contest and got to travel to Dakar, Abuja and Beijing.
She enrolled in the Fine and Applied Arts undergraduate program at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka in 1995 and graduated as Valedictorian of her class in 1999. In 2002, she began her graduate studies in Fine Arts at the University of Iowa, obtaining her Master of Arts degree in Sculpture in 2004 and her Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture in 2005.
Upon graduation, Okore became an Assistant Professor at North Park University in Chicago. She was promoted to Asso