{"id":17487,"date":"2017-03-24T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T08:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17487"},"modified":"2017-05-12T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:12:04","slug":"okereke-sylva","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okereke-sylva\/","title":{"rendered":"OKEREKE Sylva"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Painter Address: Department of Fine &#038; Applied Arts, Institute of Management &#038; Technology, Enugu, Enugu State. Birth: February 15, 1935, in Ajalli Town, Orumba Local Government Area, Anambra State. Training: BA in fine arts, University of Nigeria, 1972. Profile: Education officer, Lagos State, 1973-1976; lecturer, painting, Institute of Management &#038;Technology, Enugu, 1977-1987; reader, Department of Fine &#038; Applied Arts, Institute of Management &#038; Technology, Enugu, from 1987; wrote several publications on art education for secondary schools. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Realism &#8217;88,&#8221; Institute of Management &#038;Technology, Enugu, December 1988. Group Exhibitions &#8216;Three Artists,&#8221; Old Marina House, Lagos, 1974. &#8220;The Library Show,&#8221; State Library, Enugu, 1980. Writings by the Artist Traditional Painting in Igboland with Special Reference to Agitata Division E. C. S. Nigeria. BAthesis, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1972. [unpublished]. Awards &#038; Honors First prize, painting, Arts Festival, Eastern Nigeria Government, 1963. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17487","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17487","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17487"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}