{"id":1101,"date":"2013-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T19:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northpark.edu\/news\/professor-nnenna-okore-featured-in-sculpture-magazine\/"},"modified":"2016-10-03T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T19:48:44","slug":"professor-nnenna-okore-featured-in-sculpture-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpark.edu\/stories\/professor-nnenna-okore-featured-in-sculpture-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Nnenna Okore Featured in Sculpture Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n        Professor Nnenna Okore Featured in <i>Sculpture<\/i> Magazine<\/h1>\n<div class=\"insetimage\">\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpark.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nnenna-Okore-250.jpg?mw=730\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"Professor Nnenna Okore\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newscaption\">\n            Nnenna Okore, associate professor of art<\/div><\/div>\n<h2>\n        Artist discusses her goal to &quot;engage the viewer visually and provoke questions&quot;<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO (September 3, 2013) &#x2014; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northpark.edu\/Academics\/Undergraduate-Studies\/Majors\/Art\/Meet-the-Faculty\/Nnenna-Okore\">Nnenna Okore<\/a>, associate professor of art, is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sculpture.org\/documents\/scmag13\/julaug_13\/julaug13_features4.shtml\">featured in the July\/August 2013 issue of <em>Sculpture<\/em> magazine<\/a>, a publication of the International Sculpture Center. In the piece, &quot;Political by Nature,&quot; Okore discusses her process and approach to creating, her use of a wide range of materials, and her subtle approach to issues of poverty, social class, status, and wealth through her work.<\/p>\n<p>Okore began teaching at 天美传媒 in 2005, and returned this year after a sabbatical leave spent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northpark.edu\/stories\/2012\/North-Park-University-Student-Art-Professor-Selected-for-2012-Fulbright-Awards\">working and teaching on a Fulbright Scholarship<\/a> at the University of Lagos in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sculpture.org\/documents\/scmag13\/julaug_13\/julaug13.shtml\">Learn more<\/a> about <em>Sculpture<\/em> magazine and where to purchase the print edition.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Use @npunews to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/npunews\">follow 天美传媒 News on Twitter<\/a>. Learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northpark.edu\/stories\/2013\/%7E\/link.aspx?_id=17B6CDBBD5DD4A6BBC698F5D04C4320D&amp;_z=z\">about 天美传媒<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"nextsteps\">\n<h2>Next Steps<\/h2>\n<p>Explore 天美传媒&apos;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northpark.edu\/Academics\/Undergraduate-Studies\/Majors\/Art\">art major<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Nnenna Okore Featured in Sculpture Magazine Nnenna Okore, associate professor of art Artist discusses her goal to &quot;engage the viewer visually and provoke questions&quot; CHICAGO (September 3, 2013) &#x2014;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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