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Marketing and Communications Associate Ra'Jae' Wolf takes a look at the work of Susanne Wegner, who created the art featured on some of the distinctive covers of the Nigerian publication Black Orpheus.

Born in Graz in 1915 and trained in Vienna, Susanne Wenger came to Nigeria in 1950. She is most often identified with her total commitment to restoring and reviving the shrine of the Yoruba gods in Osogbo.

For almost forty years, Wenger's life revolved around the shrine and its artists, which developed into the New Sacred Art Movement. Wenger supported her shrine creations by selling silk-screen prints, resist-dyed textiles, and book illustrations with designs from Yoruba themes—and several of those designs became Black Orpheus covers.