{"id":17552,"date":"2017-03-24T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17552"},"modified":"2017-05-31T00:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T23:22:19","slug":"ugbine-reuben","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ugbine-reuben\/","title":{"rendered":"UGBINE, Reuben"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Creative Hands Limited, PO Box9082, 66 Akenzua Street, Benin City, Edo State. Birth: November 24, 1956, in Anponya, Ghana. Training: OND, AuchiPolytechnic, 1976; HND in sculpture, Yaba College of Technology, 1979. Profile: Full name, Oru Reuben Ugbine; instructor, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, 1976-1977; cultural officer, NYSC, Cultural Division, Minna, 1979-1980; lecturer, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, 1980-1987; designed and executed many carvings, terracottas, sculptural figures, metal railings and other art works for private commissions; freelance artist, Creative Hands, Benin City, from 1987. Solo Exhibitions National Museum, Benin City, 1983. &#8220;Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures,&#8221; National Museum, Jos, August 20-31, 1984. Group Exhibitions International Group Art Exhibition, NationalMuseum, Benin City, October3-10, 1984. &#8220;Jaycees UNIBEN Art Exhibition,&#8221; Benin City, June-August, 1985. &#8220;Sensemillia Art Expo &#8217;86,&#8221;Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, September 18-20, 1986. &#8220;Exhibition of Drawings, Paintingand Sculptures,&#8221; Agura Hotel, Abuja, July 7-9, 1987. &#8220;Creative Dialogue: SNAat 25,&#8221; NationalTheatre, Lagos, November27-December 10, 1989. Commissions Sculpture, metal, entrancegate, Federal Polytechnic, Bida, 1986. Sculpture, &#8220;Eagleon Eggs,&#8221; Governor&#8217;s Office, Niger State Government, Minna, 1989. Awards &#038; Honors Principal&#8217;s prizefor overall best student, School of Art&#038;Design, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17552","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17552","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\/17552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17552"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}