{"id":9437,"date":"2017-02-03T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9437"},"modified":"2017-06-07T16:32:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:32:26","slug":"nwaka-chike","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwaka-chike\/","title":{"rendered":"NWAKA, Chike"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoonist, Painter Address: Department of Art Education, Institute of Management &#038; Technology, Enugu, Enugu State. Birth: March 15, 1954. Training: OND and HND, Institute of Management &#038;Technology, Enugu, 1978, specializing in painting. Profile: Worked with Grafik Advertising Associates, Lagos; senior lecturer, art education, Institute of Management &#038;Technology, Enugu, 1979-1989; consultant cartoonist, Daily StarGroup of Newspapers, Enugu, 1981-1984; freelance artist, Enugu. Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Synthetic Stone Paintings,&#8221; State Central Library, Enugu, February 18-22, 1985. Group Exhibitions FESTAC &#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8220;Meeting Point,&#8221; British Council, Enugu, April27-May 1, 1987. &#8220;French Week &#8217;87,&#8221; French Cultural Centre, Enugu, May 26-31, 1987. &#8220;Paintings by Hassan Aliyu, Ayodele Elebute, ChikeNwaka and John Onobrakpeya,&#8221; National Gallery of Crafts&#038;Design, Lagos, July 21-Aueust 6, 1988. Awards &#038; Honors Best final year student in fine arts, Institute of Management &#038;Technology, Enugu, 1978. Writings by the Artist Cheeky Chyke Meets the President. Enugu: Wits Publications, 1989. Public Collections National Gallery of Crafts&#038;Design, Lagos. Acrylic: &#8216;The Xylophonist,&#8221; 1988. Bibliography Paintings by Hassan Aliyu, Ayodele Elebute, Chike Nwaka and John Onobrakpeya; [exhibition held at the National Gallery of Crafts &#038; Design, Lagos, July 21- August 6, 1988]. Lagos: National Council for Arts&#038;Culture, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9437","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9437","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\/9437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9437"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}