Thornton Dial, Jr.
Thornton Dial, Jr. (amụrụ n'afọ 1952) bụ ónyé na-ese ihe n'Afrịka na America, ónyé na-akpụ ihe, na ónyé na-eme ihe nkírí na-ebi ma na-arụ ọrụ na Bessemer, Alabama. Ọ bụ nwá mbụ nkè ónyé na-ese ihe n'oge a, Thornton Dial Sr. Ọrụ ya ka a na-amata ya nkè ọma site na nkọwa ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị na mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya.

Ndụ 
Thornton Dial Jr., nkè a makwaara dị ka "Little Buck," bụ nwá mbụ nke Thornton dial Sr. na Clara Mae Murrow. Dial gara William A. Bell High School site na klas nke iri na otu. Ọ lụrụ Angela Campbell n'ọnwa Eprel afọ 1972 ma ha nwèrè otu nwa nwoke na otu nwa nwanyị. Mgbè ha gbàrà alụkwaghịm na 1981, Dial lụrụ Angela Jackson ọzọ n'ọnwa Eprel 1986. Ha zụlitere otu nwa nwoke, otu nwa nwanyị, na otu nwá nwanyị.

Dial na ụmụnne ya, Richard na Daniel, tolitere n'etiti ezinụlọ buru ibu. Nwanne nna Dial, Arthur, na nwá nwanne nnà ya, Ronald Lockett, bụkwa ndị na-ese ihe nke Thornton Dial Sr. na ụmụ ya sitere n'ike mmụọ nsọ nwèrè mmetụta ma nwee mmetụta.

Mgbè ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ sekọndrị, Dial rụrụ ọrụ màkà ụlọ ọrụ na-ewu ụlọ na mpaghara Bluff Park nke Birmingham, ihe dị ka kilomita iri na abụọ site na Bessemer. Mgbè afọ asatọ nke ịrụ ọrụ n'iwu ihe gasịrị, ọ malitere ịrụ ọrụ na Pullman Standard Company ebe ọ mụtara ịkpụzi na ịkpụzi ígwè. Ọtụtụ ndị Dial rụrụ ọrụ maka Pullman ma ọ bụ ahụmahụ ha na-arụ ọrụ na ihe ụlọ ọrụ mmepụta ihe kpaliri usoro nka ha.

Ọrụ 
1986 wetara uto na akụ na ụba na Dial Family. N'afọ ahụ, Richard Dial, nwanne Thornton, meghere Dial Metal Patterns nke ọ ga-amalite iji mee oche "nkasi obi" ya. Ọ bụkwa n'afọ ahụ ka Thornton malitere imé ọrụ nkè ya.

Isiokwu Thornton Dial Jr. bụ ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ mgbè niile nkọwa gbasara mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibè ya, agbụrụ, ma ọ bụ mmekọrịta ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị na United States. O jiri ihe oyiyi na-ese okwu, dịka na The Gorilla Lends a Helping-Hand to the United States and the Telephone Company, iji mesie ike ọrụ ndị Africa America rụrụ n'ịmepụta na iwulite ọganihu America. Ọ bụ ezie na ihe oyiyi ya dị mgbagwoju anya, ozi ya abụghị aghụghọ. N'ihe odide ya The President And His Staff Trying To Decide What To Do About Children On Drugs, Dial na-ese onyinyo frog na-asa ahụ n'elu ụyọkọ nkume ka tadpoles na-ede akwụkwọ n'akụkụ osimiri, "na-ejide ihe ọ bụla na nkọwa ya. "

Ihe ngosi na Nchịkọta Na-adịgide Adịgide 
E gosipụtara ọrụ Dial na ihe ngosi ndị a:

 N'èzí Main Stream: Folk Art in Our Time. Mee- Ọgọst 1988, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
 Living Traditions: Southern Black Folk Art. 17 Ọgọst.- 27 Ọktoba 1991, The Museum of York County, Rock Hill, SC.
 Nye m okwu dị elu: African American Art. 10 Jul.- 22 Aug. 1992, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver CO.
 Ịgba mgba na akụkọ ihe mere eme: Ememe nke ndị na-ese ihe n'onwe ha n'Afrịka si na nchịkọta Ronald na June Shelp. 1996, Baruch College, CUNY, New York.
 Southern Spirit: The Hill Collection 21 Febụwarị - 31 Machị 2000, Museum of Art, Tallahassee, FL.
 Ihe akaebe: Vernacular Art of the African American South. 15 Sep. 2000- Jenụwarị 2004, Ụlọ ọrụ dị iche iche.
 Ancestry and Innovation. 2008, Various Institutions (nke American Folk Art Museum haziri).
 Negritude 20 Mee-25 Jul 2009, Exit Art, New York.
 Vernacular Art from the Hill Collection. 28 Ọgọst.- 25 Ọktoba 2009, Gadsden Arts Center, Quincy, FL.
 Okwukwe Anyị kwupụtara - Ọrụ sitere na nchịkọta nke Gordon W. Bailey. 10 Sep. 2014- 15 Aug. 2015, University of Mississippi Museum of Art, Oxford, MS.
 Akụkọ ihe mere eme jụrụ ịnwụ. 2015, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL.
 Mkpughe: Art si na African American South. 3 Jun.- 1 Apr. 2018, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
 Expressions Unbound: American Outsider Art from the Andrew and Linda Safran Collection. 29 Aug.- 16 Dec. 2018, The Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA.

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