{"id":12977,"date":"2017-03-01T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T08:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12977"},"modified":"2017-05-30T22:42:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:42:41","slug":"ugoji-j-o","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ugoji-j-o\/","title":{"rendered":"UGOJI, J. O."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth: 1917, in Mbawsi near Aba, Imo State. Died 1981. Training: Studied art at Uyo Teacher Training College; trained to be an art educator with Kenneth Murray, Umuahia; Diploma in audiovisual graphicart, Ohio University Education Project Centre, Ibadan. Profile: Teacher, WomenTraining College, Umuahia, 1941; art tutor, St. Charles&#8217; Teacher Training College, Onitsha, 1946-1948; art teacher, PortHarcourt, 1948; teacher, St. John&#8217;s Anglican Teachers Training College, Diobu, 1949; Wesley College, Ibadan, 1951; St. Jude&#8217;s Anglican Teachers Training College, Ibadan, 1952; Government College, Ibadan, 1952; visiting art teacher, ProvincialEducation Office, Ibadan, 1957; employed, Ohio University AID Project under a government training program in Ibadan, 1957. Solo Exhibitions Ibadan, 1951. Exhibition Center, Marina, Lagos, 1953. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Nigerian Art Exhibition,&#8221; British Council, Lagos, 1948. &#8220;Nigerian Contemporary Art Symposium, Nsukka 1976,&#8221; Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, March 22-25, 1976. &#8220;The LivingArt of the Igbo,&#8221; Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, April 1977. &#8220;East Zonal Exhibition: Societyof NigerianArtists,&#8221; Institute of AfricanStudies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, October 25-28, 1978. &#8220;Treasures of Asele Institute,&#8221; Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, December 10-23, 1988. Commissions Murals, St. Charles College, Onitsha. Awards &#038; Honors Fellow (posthumous), Asele Institute, Nimo, 1985. Public Collections Asele Institute, Nimo. Bibliography The Living Art of the Igbo; [exhibition heldat the Instituteof African Studies, Universityof Nigeria,Nsukka, April 1977] \/ introduction by UcheOkeke. Nsukka: Institute of African Studies, 1977.,16pp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12977","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12977","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\/12977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}