Adventures in Color

 

Artist, designer, educator and businessman, Ademola's career has spanned more than twenty-five years. Introduced to the arts at an early age, Ademola is one of the most respected and inventive catalysts of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Primarily a visual artist, he has worked in all areas of the arts. His involvement with music began in the 1950s during his high school years; he sang and played drums and the acoustic bass. Early in his career he was a jazz bassist with the Jimmy Waymar Ensemble and later joined Pomusicart, a pioneering cultural workshop dedicated to the fusion of poetry, music and art. He became the director of Pomusicart's Jazz Art Development and Research Project and under the auspices of this organization executed one of the first Jazz paintings for the “Blues for Nat Turner Jazz Suite,” combining the three media. Tri-Art Fusion as he termed it, opened new doors in the art of visual expression.

 

He retired from playing music in the late ’60s to devote full time to the “visual sciences.”

 

He is a highly respected cultural activist and renowned Harlem artist, whose art and career papers are in the permanent collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Hatch-Billops Archives, Howard University, and scores of other American institutions. He is one of the Executive Producers of the landmark film, “Drama Mamas: Black Female Theatre Directors in the Spotlight and Remembered.”

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