{"id":16064,"date":"2017-03-16T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16064"},"modified":"2017-04-12T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T12:36:27","slug":"agwu-michael-okah","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/agwu-michael-okah\/","title":{"rendered":"AGWU, Michael Okah"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Box 76, University of Port Harcourt, Choba Park, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Birth: 1948, in Ibii, Afikpo, Abia State. Training: Ori-Olokun Cultural Centre, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, 1971-1974, studied drawing, painting, printing, textile design, tiedyeing, and weaving under Professor S. Irein Wangboje. Profile: Full name, Michael Okah Agwu; arts assistant, Department of Creative &#038; Visual Arts, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt; works primarily in wood blockand linocut prints, but also paints on cloth and does batik; produced posters and painted cloth banners for the University of Port Harcourt and worked on cement sculptures with others. Solo Exhibitions University of Port Harcourt Museum, Port Harcourt, July 1989. Group Exhibitions Ori-Olokun Cultural Centre, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, 1970. USIS, Lagos, November 16, 1970. &#8220;Contemporary Art from Nigeria,&#8221; AfricanStudies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, May 1971. National Museum, Lagos, 1972. University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 1972. British Council, Enugu, 1973. Gong Gallery, Lagos, 1975. Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, 1975. &#8220;Contemporary Art from the Eastern States,&#8221; British Council, Enugu, August 2-15, 1980. Alliance Francaise, Port Harcourt, 1985. Federal Secretariat, Port Harcourt, 1985. Jos Museum Complex, Jos, 1986. Bibliography Ottenberg, Simon. &#8216;&#8221;We are Becoming Art Minded&#8217;: Afikpo Arts 1988,&#8221; African Arts (Los Angeles) 22 (4): 58-67, 88, August 1989. illus., bibliog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16064","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16064","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19214,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16064\/revisions\/19214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16064"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}