Olakunle Joel Adewale (born 13 May 1981) is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and visual artist who founded Tender Arts Nigeria in 2013, an Organization with focus on Therapeutic arts, arts in health, talent development, community empowerment and civic engagement through visual, literary and performing arts which benefit children, youth, adults and the aged across the world.
In 2015, he met President Barack Obama in the United States thorough Mandela Washington Fellowship for leadership impacts in using arts to improve the lives of people in his environment and in 2019, he received an international recognition in the United States as August 2 was declared as “Kunle Adewale Day” by the Mayor of Cincinnati, John Cranley in recognition of his contribution to the United States in both fields of Arts and Medicine.