Ademola Olugebefola

Ademola Olugebefola (né Bedwick Lyola Thomas; b. October 2, 1941, Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands) is an American multidisciplinary artist, designer, educator, and cultural activist whose practice spans painting, printmaking, sculpture, mural-making, theatre set design, and graphic media. He was a founding member of the Black Arts Movement’s influential Weusi Artist Collective in Harlem during the 1960s, and his work draws on pan-African aesthetics, Afro-futurist vision, and community-based art practice.