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About Dele Jegede
- Dele Jegede (stylized as dele jegede) is a Nigerian-American painter, art historian, cartoonist, curator, art critic, art administrator, and teacher.
- Jegede was a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, (1995).
- He taught at Spelman College, Atlanta as Visiting Fulbright Scholar (1987-1988), when he curated the exhibition, Art By Metamorphosis.
- Listed in Kelly and Stanley's "Nigerian Artists: A Who's Who & Bibliography," Jegede was Professor and Chair of the Department of Art (2005-2010) and Professor of Art at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
- He retired as Professor Emeritus in May 2015. Jegede is recipient of the Distinguished Africanist Award of the University of Texas.
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