{"id":14216,"date":"2017-03-07T14:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T13:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14216"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T15:16:02","slug":"ogwo-ossie","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ogwo-ossie\/","title":{"rendered":"OGWO Ossie"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoonist, Painter, Sculptor Address: 2100 Glendale Avenue, Apt. 3, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19152, USA. Birth: December 18, 1955, in Owerri, Imo State. Training: HND, Institute of Management &#038; Technology, Enugu, specializing in sculpture, 1983. Profile: Full name, Ossie Anthony Ogwo; editorial cartoonist\/graphic artist, Satellite, Enugu, 1983-1984; political cartoonist, The Guardian, Lagos, 1984\u20141989; created comic strips for Nigerian newspapers; toured the United States on USIS exchange program, 1989; cartoonist for newspapers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; freelance artist. Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Remake the World,&#8221; Mannheim, Germany, October 1988; Goethe Institute, Murnau, Germany, September 1989. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Assertive Strokes: Selected Editorial Cartoons,&#8221; Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, 1988. &#8220;Them Damn Pictures,&#8221; USIS, Lagos, September 1988. &#8220;Reflections: An Art Exhibition of the Society of Nigerian Artists,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, December 16-30, 1988. Commissions Mural, Ivory Motel, Enugu, 1981. Logo, Anambra State Trade Fair, 1982. Writings by the Artist Ogwo, Ossie. [Interview]. Muraneur Tagblatt (Murnau, Germany) September 1989. Public Collections Cartoon Art Museum, San Franciso, California, USA. Museum of Cartoon Art, Rye Brook, New York, USA. Four cartoons. Bibliography Assertive Strokes: Selected Editorial Cartoons; [exhibition held at the Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, 1988] \/ introduction by Okey Ndibe; statement by Ossie Ogwo; foreword by Odia Ofeiumun. Lagos: Tonsie, 1988. [32]pp. chiefly illustrations. Reviewed: &#8220;New Dawn for a Political Cartoonist,&#8221; Daily Champion (Lagos) October 29, 1988; &#8220;Ossie Ogwo: Political Strokes for Cartooning,&#8221; Quality (Lagos October 20, 1988; Tunde Olanipekun, &#8220;Artistic Creativity Bubbles in Lagos,&#8221; Lagos Life (Lagos) November 10-16, 1988. illus. &#8220;Mighty pens,&#8221; [interview]. Time Magazine (New York) September 12, 1988. Obijiofor, Levi. &#8220;Writers Against Writers,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) January 14, 1989, page 11. Ogwo, Ossie. [interview]. Muraneur Tagblatt (Murnau, Germany) September 1989. Feuchter, Anke. &#8220;SympathischerStreiter mit der Feder,&#8221; Die Rheinpfalz (Germany) no. 239, October 14, 1989. Ooi Kok Chuen. &#8220;Making a Stand Through Cartoons,&#8221; NewStraits Times (Kuala Lumpur) November 18, 1989,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14216","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14216","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14216"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}