{"id":17638,"date":"2017-03-27T11:12:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T10:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17638"},"modified":"2017-05-31T04:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T03:55:20","slug":"wangboje-professor-solomon-ona-irein","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/wangboje-professor-solomon-ona-irein\/","title":{"rendered":"WANGBOJE, Prof. Solomon Ona Irein"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MFA, Ed.D, fine artist, educationist, born August 16, 1930, Avbiosi, Bendel State; mar ried Florence Ehiozogie Amadasu 1960, two sons, six daughters; Education: Edo College, Benin City, 1946-50, Nigerian College of Technology, Zaria, 1955-59, Granbrook Academy of Arts, Michigan, USA, 1961-63, New York University, New York, USA, 1965-68; appointed Publications Artist, Federal Ministry of Information, 1959-63; Design and Art Supervisor, Nigerian Television, 1964-65, Research fellow, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, 1968-70; Senior Research fellow, Obafemi Awolowo University, 1970-71; Senior Lecturer, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1971-73; appointedPro fessor of FineArts, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1973; Professor of CreativeArts, Univer sity of Benin,BeninCity, since 1978; member, International Association of Art and National President, Nigerian Chapter; member, Interna tional Society for Education Through Art, WorldCouncillorand African Representative; member, National Art Education Association, USA; Vice-Chairman, Bendel State Police- Community Relations Committee; Award: con ferred with International Ziegfeld Award, In ternational Society for EducationThrough Arts, USA, 1988; Publications: contributed to: Liv ing Cultures of Nigeria (Thomas Nelson, 1976); Arts for Junior Secondary Schools (J&#8221;vans Brothers, 1982, 1988); Hobbies: photography, reading; Official Address: Department of Creative Arts, University of Benin, Benin Ci ty, Bendel State; Home: P.6 Senior Staff Residential Quarters, UgbowoCampus, Univer sity of Benin, Benin City, Bendel State; Telephone: (052) 243631.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17638","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17638","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20729,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17638\/revisions\/20729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17638"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}