To
answer your question, Chief (Mrs.) Oyenike Monica Okundaye (formerly
Nike Seven Seven) was born in 1954. She is one of the leading figures of the
famous Oshogbo art movement. Her
art recreates Nigeria’s disappearing traditions in Imaginative and interesting
ways. A world-acclaimed artist and textile designer, one of her paintings is on
display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and she has conducted demonstrations
and lectures on traditional Nigerian textiles at Harvard University and
other universities in the United States, Nigeria, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy
and other parts of the world.
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Timi Kakandar shows 'Synthesis' in Lagos
The coming of the social media has
transformed the ways in which people interact with each other, the public,
the institutions that govern them, as well as their careers. But to one artist,
Timi Kakandar, the undesirable effect of social media is having an upper hand
and this he considers disturbing.
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