Professor Oseloka Osadebe, a pioneer member of the well-known Zaria Artwork Society, has handed away. He died on Wednesday, December 27, in Jackson Mississippi, United States of America, the place he had lived since 1998.
A press release on behalf of the Osadebe household by his cousin Nn'emeka Maduegbuna confirmed the demise.
Recall that Osadebe, who had lived in the USA since 1965, returned to Nigeria for the primary time in 2018 to current a retrospective exhibition of uncommon works he created between 1960 and 2014.
The exhibition, titled Interior Mild, which was held on the Nationwide Museum, Onikan, Lagos, obtained important acclaim.
He was born in 1934 and was an impressive artist, playwright, theater director and instructor. Rising up in Onitsha, Anambra State, Osadebe distinguished himself as a superb draftsman from an early age, ultimately gaining admission into the celebrated Nigerian School of Arts, Science and Know-how, Zaria.
It was in Zaria that he joined a gaggle of dynamic college students, Zaria Rebels, who wished to precise a recent tackle classical artwork – a perspective that embraced their wealthy African traditions. They shaped the Zaria Arts Society. Its members would turn into the founders of the modern artwork motion in Nigeria.
Of those progressive artwork college students, solely Demas Nwoko, Okechukwu Odita and Bruce Onobrakpeya are nonetheless alive.
Osadebe graduated from Zaria in 1962 with a specialization in portray and sculpture. From 1962 to 1965 he went on to show artwork on the College of Nigeria, Nsukka, throughout which era he performed a distinguished function within the vibrant Nigerian artwork scenes of the last decade. He then left the nation on an Aggrey Fellowship for African College students to pursue graduate research in the USA.
He graduated with a Grasp of Advantageous Arts diploma from the Artwork Institute of Chicago in 1967, and in 1973 he obtained a second grasp's diploma from the Goodman Faculty of Drama, Chicago, specializing in scene design, lighting and directing.
He accomplished his doctorate at Northwestern College, Evanston, Illinois in 1981, specializing in Western and African theater and drama, and taught theater and set design for a few years at quite a few universities together with Spelman School, Jackson State College, Northeastern Illinois College, Tougaloo School, and Central State College.
Osadebe retired in 2007 and spent the final 16 years of his life pursuing his ardour for visible arts in his studio in Jackson, Mississippi.
Maduegbuna said that data concerning his funeral shall be shared by the household in the end.
