{"id":11406,"date":"2017-02-21T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11406"},"modified":"2017-11-09T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:44:16","slug":"ola-olapade","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ola-olapade\/","title":{"rendered":"OLAPADE, Ola"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic Artist Address: Department of Fine Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Oshun State. Birth: March 8, 1942, in Ola, Ejigbo Local Government Area, Oyo State. Training: BA in fine arts, Ahmadu Bello University, 1969, specializing in graphics; MA in art education, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA, 1974; PhD in art education, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA, 1981. Profile: Full name, Jacob Olayioye Olapade; art teacher, St. Andrew&#8217;s College, Oyo, 1969; art teacher, Ejigbo Baptist High School, Oyo State, 1970-1976; lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, from 1976; head of department, 1989; art adviser, Ife Art Teachers&#8217; Association; designed numerous book covers, logos and crests for schools, churches and universities; published articles on art education. Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Posters, Prints and Drawings,&#8221; St. Andrew&#8217;s College, Oyo, August 10-15, 1969. &#8220;Twenty Prints,&#8221; Baptist High School, Ejigbo, December 10-15, 1969. &#8220;An Exhibition of Paintings,&#8221; African Center, Baker School, Richmond, Virginia, USA, May 12-14, 1974. &#8220;Exhibition of Posters, Book Covers and Prints,&#8221; Fakunle Comprehensive High School, Oshogbo, April 4-10, 1978. &#8220;Exhibition of Prints and Drawings,&#8221; Chambers Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA, September 1-7, 1981. Group Exhibitions Porcelain Works, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA, September 10-15, 1981. &#8220;Posters, Book Covers and Prints, Ten Years of Ife Art School,&#8221; University of Ife, Ile-Ife, January 10-20, 1985. &#8220;1989 Exhibition of Contemporary Ife Art,&#8221; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, February 20-25, 1989. &#8220;Creative Dialogue: SNA at 25,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, November 27-December 10, 1989. Writings by the Artist History of Araree, the Goddess of Ola. BA thesis, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1969. [unpublished]. The State of Art Education in Nigerian Schools. MA thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 1974. [unpublished]. The Relationship Between University Students&#8217; Orientation to Art Criticism and Their Critical Evaluation of Works of Art. PhD dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1981. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1981. Fine Arts-Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Examination Aids. Ibadan, University Press, 1984. &#8220;The Autonomy of Works of Art vis-a-vis The Autonomy of Aesthetic Experience,&#8221; Nigeria Magazine (Lagos) 53 (4): 43-49, October-December 1985. illus., bibliog. &#8220;Ife Traditional Festivals: A Dialectical Hermeneutics,&#8221; Nigeria Magazine (Lagos) 55 (3): 42-48, 1987. &#8220;Sodometry: Its Implications in Art Evaluation,&#8221; Kurio Africana; Journal of Artand Criticism (Ile-Ife) 1 (1): 91-103, 1989. bibl. refs. &#8220;Art and Craft in The Nucleus,&#8221; Kurio Africana; Journal of Art and Criticism (Ile-Ife) 1 (2): 14-24, 1989. bibl. refs. Bibliography <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11406","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11406","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}