{"id":18929,"date":"2017-03-31T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18929"},"modified":"2017-05-31T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T10:37:55","slug":"tunde-akinwumi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/tunde-akinwumi\/","title":{"rendered":"AKINWUMI, Tunde"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Department of Industrial Design, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. Birth: October 23, 1945, in Ibadan, Oyo State. Training: Yaba College of Technology, 1967-1968;BA, Ahmadu Bello University, 1973, specializing in textile design; MA, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1981, specializing in textile and clothing arts; PhD in African art history, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 1990. Profile: Full name, Tunde Maurice Akinwumi; his commissioned designs have been used by leading textile industries in The Netherlands and Austria in the production of brocade, head ties and lace materials; published weekly cartoons in Nigerian Herald, Ilorin, 1974; head, Textile Design Unit, Department of Industrial Design, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos; part-time teacher, textile and clothing courses, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, 19881989. Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Offerings from the Gods,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, June-July 1985. &#8220;Yaba Tech Staff Art at 40,&#8221; YabaCollege of Technology, Lagos, July 7-28, 1988. Writings by the Artist &#8216;Textile Design,&#8221; New Culture (Ibadan) 1 (7):15-17, June 1979. illus. Persistence and Change in Yoruba Costume, a Case Study of Oyo, 1850-1980. MA thesis, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1981. [unpublished]. The Commemorative Phenomenon of Textile Use Among the Yoruba: A Survey of Significance and Form. PhD dissertation, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 1990. [unpublished]. Bibliography &#8220;The Textile Designer and Nigerian Consumers of Furnishing Fabrics,&#8221; Nigerian Society for Education Through Arts(Zaria) 1(4):5-10, December 1977. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18929","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18929","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\/18929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20774,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18929\/revisions\/20774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18929"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}