{"id":17070,"date":"2017-03-23T09:09:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T08:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17070"},"modified":"2017-06-08T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:36:28","slug":"nwoko-prof-demas-nwanna","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwoko-prof-demas-nwanna\/","title":{"rendered":"NWOKO, Prof. Demas Nwanna"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>muralist, painter, sculptor; DOB: December 20. 1935; Hometown: Idumuje, Ugboko; State of Delta: Delta; EDUCATION: Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology. Zaria, 1961; CAREER: Designed Theatre sets. Nigeria France and Mexico, 1962-68; conducted Summer School in Terracotta Art, Extra-Mural Department, University of Ibadan, Oyo state, 1965; Lecturer, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan; Theatre Design Consultant, Ibadan Cultural Centre, Oyo State Government, 1974. Staged Children ofParadise a play. Festival of Arts and Culture. 1977; established New Culture Magazine, Ibadan, 1978; participant. Rockefeller Foundation Conference, Bellagio, Italy, 1980; Theatre Design Consultant, Onikan cultural Centre, Lagos State Government, 1985; freelance artist and architect, Ibadan; designer\/builder, Dominican Monastery, Ibadan; Benedictine Monastery, Ewu, Edo State Cultural Centre, Benin; New Culture Studio, Ibadan and a number of private residences in his town Idumuje Ugboko. Exhicw:ARetrospective. Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Lagos, 1987; ABlend of Old and New. Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Lagos, 1987. Publication: Search for A New African Theatre, Presence Africaine, Third Quarter, Paris, 1970; The Aesthetics of African Art and Culture: Art and the Artist,&#8217;The Performing Art, New Culture, Ibadan, 1979; Art in Traditional African Design, Nigeria Magazine, Lagos, 1974; Creativity and Self Reliance, New Culture, Ibadan, 1978; and several others in both local and international journals. h: French Government Scholar, Paris, 1961-62; Fellow, Ascle Institute, Nimo, 1985; off: New Culture Studios, No. 6A\/532A, Adeola Crescent, P.M.B. 5162, Oremeji, Ibadan, Oyo State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17070","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17070","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17079,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17070\/revisions\/17079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17070"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}