{"id":8271,"date":"2017-01-18T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T09:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8271"},"modified":"2017-04-19T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:24:52","slug":"eke-okaybulu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/eke-okaybulu\/","title":{"rendered":"EKE, Okaybulu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Graphic Artist, Painter Birth: 1916, in Ebem Ohafia, Abia State. Died 1958. Training: Self-taught; influenced by D. L. K. Nnachy and other students of Kenneth Murray, Teachers&#8217; Training College, Umuahia; graphic arts and illustration, government scholarship, London, 1952; also influenced by Aina Onabolu and Akinola Lasekan. Profile: Illustrated school texts, designed wall pictures, visual aids, Longman&#8217;s Publishers, mostly during study years in London; designed posters on social welfare and the environment for the Federal Ministry of Information. Okediji 355 Group Exhibitions &#8220;Arts and Crafts Exhibition,&#8221; Port Harcourt, 1944. &#8220;Nigerian Art Exhibition,&#8221; British Council, Lagos, 1948. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Plastic Art Exhibition,&#8221; Fourth National Arts Festival, Lagos State Cultural Centre, Lagos, 1974. &#8220;Nigerian Contemporary Art Symposium, Nsukka 1976,&#8221; Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, March 22-25, 1976. FESTAC &#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8220;Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Nigerian Artists,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 4-9, 1977. &#8220;East Zonal Exhibition: Sodety of Nigerian Artists,&#8221; Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, October 25-28, 1978. &#8220;Silver Jubilee National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September26- October 1, 1985. &#8220;Man in Focus,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, December20, 1985-January 10, 1986. &#8220;Treasures of Asele Institute,&#8221; Italian Cultural Institute, December 10-23, 1988. Awards &#038; Honors First class Certificate of Merit, drawings and paintings, Art and Crafts Exhibition, Port Harcourt, 1944; Fellow (posthumous), Asele Institute, Nimo, 1985. Public Collections Asele Institute, Nimo. Lagos University Library, University of Lagos, Lagos. Drawing: &#8220;Mother and Child&#8221;; watercolor: &#8220;Abang.&#8221; Works formerly in the collection of the Federal Society of Arts &#038; Humanities, Lagos. National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8271","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8271","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\/8271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19447,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8271\/revisions\/19447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}