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BIOGRAPHY
A multi-talented and self-taught artist, folasayo has the ability to
express her creativity in several genres like the visual arts, drama,
writing, and in almost any creative endeavor. She is the author of Conversations
With The Soul At 3:00am, a collection of love poems and art
photography ( Home of African Concepts, 2000) and the British
Council/ANA award winning play The Woman with a Past (Heinemann
books, 1989).
Folasayo has a US patent (2004) pending on a framing concept she designed for presenting some of her artwork.
She performs and tours with a dramatization of her poems to
African drums and jazz music and organizes a monthly "poetry
by candle light dinner" ©
series. She's also the founder of CONAA - a collective of Nigerian
Artists Abroad (April, 2000). A graduate of Animal Nutrition, (B.Sc, 1989, University of Ibadan, and Iowa State University, M.Sc, 1994). folasayo currently lives in Seattle, WA., and enjoys in her spare time, music, traveling, interior design, creative cooking, experiencing other cultures and charitable work.
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