{"id":10979,"date":"2017-02-18T03:36:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10979"},"modified":"2017-05-16T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T10:22:41","slug":"okoro-godwin","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okoro-godwin\/","title":{"rendered":"OKORO Godwin"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculptor Birth: 1942, in Benin City, Edo State. Training: Studied sculpture, Yaba College of Technology, 1962-1964; apprenticed to Mr. Birkhaug, Industrial Development Centre, Owerri, 1964-1966; Cordwainers Technical College, London, 1968; attended School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, 1977; EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA, 1984. Profile: Full name, Godwin Imarhiagbon Peter Okoro; worked in Felix Idubor&#8217;s studio, Lagos; Industrial Development Centre, Zaria, 1973- 1975. Group Exhibitions Eastern Nigeria Festival of the Arts, Enugu, 1965. &#8220;Ancestral Vibrations: African Fabric and Sculpture,&#8221; National Center of Afro- American Artists, Boston, Massachusetts, April3-May 1, 1977. Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1980. Writings by the Artist African Contemporary Art in Nigeria. EdD dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1984. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1984. 196pp. illus., bibliog. Public Collections Columbia University, Teachers College, Milbank Library, New York, USA. National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Harriet Tubman Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10979","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10979","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\/10979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}