{"id":9534,"date":"2017-02-04T00:32:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T23:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9534"},"modified":"2017-04-12T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T12:14:33","slug":"chukueggu-chinedu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/chukueggu-chinedu\/","title":{"rendered":"CHUKUEGGU Chinedu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Textile Artist Address: Mbari Art Centre, PO Box42, Kwogwu, Aboh Mbaise, Imo State. Birth: July 27, 1958, in Umuamadi Nguru, Aboh Mbaise, Imo State. Training: BA in fine arts, University of Ife, 1983; MA in visual arts, University of Ibadan, 1989. Profile: Full name, Chinedu Christian Chukueggu; son of sculptor Dulu Chief S. A. O. Chukueggu and brother of sculptor Chief Silver O. A. Chukueggu, sculptors; lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Advanced Teachers College, Bauchi 1983-1984; assistant lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Niger State College of Education, Minna, 1984-1987; lecturer\/head, Niger State College of Education, Minna, from 1987. Member: International Society of Education Through Art; Nigerian Society of Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Art and Artists,&#8221; College of Education, Minna, 1986. &#8220;Visual Touch,&#8221; Niger State Council for Arts &#038; Culture, Minna, 1987. Group Exhibitions British Council, Enugu, September 1973. East Central State Art Council Exhibitions, Enugu, October 1974 and 1975. University of Ife Students&#8217; Exhibitions, Ile-Ife, 1981, 1982 and 1983. &#8220;The Ife Art School, 1974-1984,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, April 27-May 19, 1984; Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, June 1-15, 1984; Concorde Hotel, Owerri, August 20-25, 1984. Awards &#038; Honors First prize, East Central State Zonal Art sculpture competition, Enugu, 1973; second prize, East Central State Art Council competition, Enugu, 1974; East Central State Scholarship Award in fine arts for SecondarySchool Education, Enugu, 1973-1978. Writings by the Artist Continuity andChange in Mbari Art in Mbaise, Imo State. BA thesis, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, 1983. [unpublished]. Church Architecture in Owerri Division 1900-1970. MA thesis, University of ibadan, Ibadan, 1989. [unpublished]. Textile\/Dress Technology in Africa: The Case of Akwete. Paper presented at the International Conference on fifty years of archaeology in Nigeria, November 1989. [unpublished]. Public Collections Enugu State Art Council Gallery, Enugu. Wood sculptures. Obafemi Awolowo University, Department of Fine Arts, Ile-Ife. Textiles and sculpture, 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9534","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9534","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\/9534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}