{"id":18677,"date":"2017-03-31T02:40:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T01:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18677"},"modified":"2017-04-20T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:13:59","slug":"folorunsho-yekini","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/folorunsho-yekini\/","title":{"rendered":"FOLORUNSHO, Yekini"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculptor Address: 56 Ibokun Road, Oshogbo, Oshun State. Birth: August 20, 1939. Training: Originally a blacksmith, later trained as a jeweler; worked with his older brother, Asiru, for two years before going on his own. Profile: Makes repousse works in copper, brass and aluminum, producing panels illustrating aspects of Yoruba religious and secular life. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Silver Jubilee National Art Exhibition,&#8221; Federal University of Technology, Owerri, September 26-October 1, 1985. &#8220;Contemporary Arts from Western Nigeria,&#8221; Zamana Gallery, London, October 20, 1988-January 8, 1989. &#8220;Reflections from Africa,&#8221; Onira Arts Africa, Ottawa, Canada, April5-20, 1990. Commissions Sculpted relief panels, copper, brass and aluminum, National Black Theatre, Harlem, New York, USA. Public Collections Museum fur Vdlkerkunde, Frankfurt, Germany. Copper relief: one untitled. Bibliography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18677","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18677","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\/18677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18677"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}