| Summary: | Sculptor and professor Ausbra Ford was born on February 28, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois. He studied sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned his B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in 1964 and 1966, respectively. From 1964 to 1968, Ford was an art teacher for the public school systems in Chicago and Gary, Indiana. He then served a brief stint as an associate professor at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, before returning to Chicago to become a professor at Chicago State University. Supporting his interest for funeral art of Afro-Americans, Ford received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship as well as grants from Chicago State University to conduct research on the funerary art of West and Central Africa. His work was been published in numerous journals and books, and he lectured at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and the Chicago Field Museum.
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