Mary Lee Bendolph
Mary Lee Bendolph (amụrụ n'afọ 1935) bụ onye America na-eme akwa akwa nke Gee's Bend Collective si Gee's bend (Boykin), Alabama. Ọrụ ya enweela mmetụta na ndị na-ese ihe na ndị na'ese ihe na-esote ma gosipụta ákwà ya na ebe ngosi ihe mgbe ochie na gallery gbụrụ-gbúrụ mba ahụ. Bendolph na-eji ákwà sitere na uwe eji eme ihe màkà ịkwa akwa iji kwado "ịhụnanya na mmụọ" na ákwà ochie. Bendolph anọwo na ndụ ya na Gee's Bend ma nwee ọrụ gosipụtara na Philadelphia Museum of Art yana Minneapolis Institute of Art na Minnesota.

N'afọ 1999, Los Angeles Times gosipụtara Bendolph na akụkọ Pulitzer Prize-winning "Crossing Over", banyéré mgbalị iji weghachite ọrụ ụgbọ mmiri gafee Osimiri Alabama.

Akụkọ ndụ 
Bendolph tolitere na Gee's Bend, Alabama. A zụlitere ya n'omenala akwa, nke nne ya kụziiri Mgbè ọ dị afọ iri na abụọ, naanị afọ abụọ tupu ya amalite ịmụ ụmụ. Ọ mụrụ nwa mbụ ya mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na anọ nke gbochiri ya ịga ụlọ akwụkwọ mgbè ọ gụsịrị klas nke isii. Ọ lụrụ Rubin Bendolph na 1955 ma ha nwèrè ụmụ asatọ. N'afọ 1965, Bendolph sonyere na ngagharị nke Martin Luther King, Jr. duziri na Camden, Alabama. Mgbè ọ lara ezumike nká na 1992, Bendolph etinyela oge ka ukwuu n'ime akwa.

Ọrụ 
Ihe mkpuchi nke Gee's Bend jikọtara ụdị nke ihe mkpuchi ọdịnala ndị Africa America na ụdị geometric dị mfe nke e jiri tụnyere ihe mkpuchi Amish na ndị na-ese ihe nke ógè a dịka Henri Matisse na Paul Klee. Ndị na-emepụta ihe na Gee's Bend malitere ịdọta uche dị egwu na ngwụcha afọ 1990, na-eduga na nnukwu ihe ngosi na Whitney Museum of Modern Art, na ọtụtụ ihe ngosi na mbipụta ndị sochirinụ.

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