{"id":10934,"date":"2017-02-18T01:17:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T00:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10934"},"modified":"2017-05-15T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:53:27","slug":"okolo-geoffrey","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okolo-geoffrey\/","title":{"rendered":"OKOLO, Geoffrey"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic Artist, Painter, Sculptor Address: Madiara Polo, Tombi, Nembe, Rivers State. .Birth: December 23, 1922, in Nembe, Rivers State. Training: A student of Aina Onabolu in the 1940s; diploma in fine arts, Nigerian College of Arts, Sdence &#038;Technology, Zaria, 1961, spedalizing in graphics. Profile: Full name, Geoffrey Iruosoumo Okolo; sometimes referred to as Godfrey; art teacher, Baptist academies, Lagos and Rivers State, and several other schools; freelance artist, Nembe, Rivers State; produced realistic funerary scultures representing local dignitaries. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Nigerian Art Exhibition,&#8221; British Coundl, Lagos, 1948. &#8220;Commerdal and Graphic Design,&#8221; Mbari Club, Ibadan, January 24-February 7, 1962. FESTAC &#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8220;Treasures of Asele Institute,&#8221; Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, December 10-23, 1988. Commissions Murals, &#8220;Nembe History,&#8221; City Hall, Nembe, Rivers State. Writings by the Artist &#8216;The Use of Papier-Mache,&#8221; Nigeria (Lagos) no. 34: 230-231, 1950. illus. Public Collections Asele Institute, Nimo. Lagos University Library, University of Lagos, Lagos. Oilon board: &#8220;Juju Point.&#8221; Formerly in the collection of the Federal Sodety of Arts &#038;Humanities, Lagos. Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia, USA. Works formerly in the Harmon Foundation Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10934","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10934","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\/10934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10934"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}