{"id":8812,"date":"2017-01-25T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8812"},"modified":"2017-11-20T15:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:44:39","slug":"afolayan-emmanuel","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/afolayan-emmanuel\/","title":{"rendered":"AFOLAYAN, Emmanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Departmentof Sculpture &#038; Ceramics, School of Art &#038; Design, Auchi Polytechnic, PMB 13, Auchi, Edo State. Birth: June 5, 1960, in Osi Opin, Kwara State. Training: BAin fine arts, 1984,and MFAin sculpture, Ahmadu Bello University, 1988. Profile: Full name, Emmanuel Sunday Oladapo Afolayan; graphic artist, NYSC, Nasi Jaji, 1984-1985; employed by Kwara State Council for Arts &#038; Culture, Ilorin, 1985-1986;lecturer, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, from 1988;an exponent of Onaism; specialist in stone carving butalso works in metal, cement and wood. Member: Nigerian Society for Education Through Art; Society of Nigerian Artists. Group Exhibitions Arican Development Bank 25th Anniversary Conference Art Exhibition, Nicon Noga Hilton Hotel, Abuja, April-May 1989. &#8220;Towards 21st Century Art,&#8221; Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, September 8-15, 1989; Lagos, October 18-27, 1990. &#8220;Vision for Excellence,&#8221; Home Design Centre, Lagos, December 16-23, 1989. &#8220;Creative Dialogue: SNA at 25,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, November 27-December 10, 1989. &#8220;Images of the Nigerian Nation,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 29-October 13, 1990. &#8220;Art as Technology,&#8221; Federal University of Technology, Akure, November 1-3, 1990. Commissions Sculpture, &#8220;Warrior on Horse,&#8221; Government Reservation Area roundabout, Ilorin, 1985. Sculptures, &#8220;Royal Salutation&#8221; and &#8220;Federal Symbol,&#8221; Federal University of Technology, Akure, 1987. Writings by the Artist Stone Carving-Practical Studio Production of Sculptures in Various Stones. MFA thesis, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, October 1987. [unpublished]. Awards &#038; Honors Gbadebo prize for best art student, 1978. Public Collections National Council for Arts &#038; Culture, Lagos. Stone sculpture: &#8220;Intimacy,&#8221; 1990; wood sculpture: &#8220;Behold Northern Star Onaism,&#8221; 1990. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8812","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8812","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}