{"id":7464,"date":"2017-01-10T17:59:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7464"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T10:08:32","slug":"bintu-olaniyi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bintu-olaniyi\/","title":{"rendered":"BINTU, Olaniyi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Textile Artist Address: PO Box 786, Oshogbo, Oshun State. Birth: April 5, 1950, in Ede, Oshun State. Training: With her husband, Twins Seven-Seven, Oshogbo, 1966- 1980. Profile: Full name, Bintu Adunni Olaniyi, a former wife of Twins Seven-Seven; conducted batik workshops: University of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1982; National Museum, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, 1985; National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio, USA, 1989 and 1990. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Landscapes, People, Animals and Birds,&#8221; Peacock Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, November 16-December 5, 1981. &#8220;Batiks,&#8221; Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, 1981. Alberta Crafts Coundl, Alberta, Canada, 1982. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Fine Art from the Twins Seven-Seven Gallery, Oshogbo,&#8221; Grinnell Gallery, New York, USA, August 25-September 15, 1986. Copenhagen Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1988. Ballerup, Denmark, 1989. Awards &#038; Honors Life Membership, National Afro-American Museum, Wilberforce, Ohio, USA, 1990. Bibliography Adinoyi-Ojo, Shaibu. &#8220;Batik Artist Bintu Making Good,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) November 7, 1984, page 7. Scott, Victoria. Myth and Image: A Collection ofwork by 14Nigerian Artists of the Oshogbo School on Loan from Victoria Scott ofNew York; [exhibition, October- November 1985. Denton, Texas]: Greater Denton Arts Coundl, 1985. [13]pp. illus. [None by Bintu]. Madueme, Emma. &#8220;Oshogbo Artists,&#8221; [review of an exhibition at the Grinnell Gallery, New York, August 25-September15, 1986]. African Concord (London) no. 110: 39, October 2, 1986. illus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7464","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7464","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\/7464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}