{"id":10890,"date":"2017-02-17T17:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10890"},"modified":"2017-04-13T07:23:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T06:23:57","slug":"akintunde-gbade","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/akintunde-gbade\/","title":{"rendered":"AKINTUNDE, Gbade"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Oyo State Council for Culture, Cultural Centre, Craft Village, PMB 5665, Mokola Hill, Ibadan, Oyo State. Birth: August, 1949, in Iragberi near Oshogbo, Oshun State. Training: Apprenticed to Lamidi Fakeye for two years; experimental workshop, Institute of African Studies, Ile-Ife, 1969; certificate in art and design, Ahmadu Bello University, 1979. Profile: Tutorial assistant, Department of Fine Arts, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1972-1977; freelance artist 1978-1983; cultural officer in charge of woodcarving unit, Cultural Centre Craft Village, Ibadan, from 1983; gave demonstrations in Canadian secondary schools in Edmonton, Toronto, Burlington and Hamilton, 1986. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Prints and Wood Carving,&#8221; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, 1987. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Exhibition of Prints and Wood Carvings,&#8221; USIS, Kaduna, Kano and the State Library, Jos, 1971. &#8220;Visions of Africa,&#8221; Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, USA, May 12-23, 1975. &#8220;Exhibition of Prints,&#8221; French Cultural Centre, Ibadan, 1984. &#8220;Art for VIPs,&#8221; British Caledonian VIP Lounge, Gatwick Airport, London, October 1-31, 1985. Commissions Wood relief carving, entrance door, Jimoh Buraimoh Studio, Oshogbo, 1970. Relief carving, entrance door screens, Sokoto Hotel, Sokoto, 1974. Bibliography &#8220;Art for VIPs,&#8221; [review of an exhibition of Didi Musuem collection, Lagos, held at the British Caledonian VIP Lounge, Gatwick Airport, London, October 1-31, 1985]. West Africa (London) no. 3556:2237,October 21, 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10890","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10890"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}