{"id":878,"date":"2017-04-12T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/?p=878"},"modified":"2017-04-12T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:05:10","slug":"senior-art-exhibition-art-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/2017\/04\/12\/senior-art-exhibition-art-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Art Exhibition-&#8220;Art is Hard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/04\/senior-flyer-art-is-hard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-880 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/04\/senior-flyer-art-is-hard-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"senior flyer art is hard\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/04\/senior-flyer-art-is-hard-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/04\/senior-flyer-art-is-hard-644x495.jpg 644w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/04\/senior-flyer-art-is-hard.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Valdosta State University<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery<\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> VSU Fine Arts Building<br \/>\nCorner of Brookwood and Oak Street<br \/>\nValdosta State University<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gallery Hours: Monday \u2013 Thursday: 8:30 am \u2013 5:30 pm, Friday 8:30 am \u2013 3 pm<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery presents <i>Art is Hard<\/i><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> Senior Exhibition<br \/>\nMulti-media exhibition<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> April 15<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000\"> \u2013 May 1<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">st<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000\"> 2017<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> Opening Reception: April 15, 2017 1-3pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000\">Contact:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000\"> Julie Bowland, Art Gallery Director 229-333-5835<br \/>\n<\/span> <a href=\"mailto:jabowlan@valdosta.edu\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">jabowlan@valdosta.edu<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> VSU Fine Arts Gallery Web:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdosta.edu\/art\/gallery\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">www.valdosta.edu\/art\/gallery<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery presents the BFA and BA graduates in Fine Arts for the Spring 2017 term.\u00a0 We invite you to join us in a celebration of their accomplishments on Saturday, April 15, from 1 to 3 PM.<\/p>\n<p>The graduating class of spring 2017 will be exhibiting a variety of artwork including drawing, painting, graphic design, photography, mixed media, ceramics, sculpture and jewelry metalworking. The event is free to the public.\u00a0 Musical entertainment provided by the VSU Student Jazz Combo.<\/p>\n<p>Creating art can be an emotional and psychological drain.\u00a0 It can be difficult to express an idea or meaning without any words. Others may think art is easy and merely a method of escapism from the hardships of society\u2014it is not.\u00a0 <i><span style=\"color: #000000\">Art is Hard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> is meant to challenge the public perception of art as a leisure.\u00a0 On April 15<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000\">, we welcome you to celebrate and consider the works of the art presented by these ten graduates.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The exhibit will be displayed from Saturday, April 15<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> through May 1<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">st<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Lamar Benefield<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><br \/>\nPatrick Hilgert<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SaraBeth Hobbs<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Erin Makay<\/p>\n<p>Eliza Reyes<\/p>\n<p>Keith Riley<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Steele<\/p>\n<p>Abigail Trella<\/p>\n<p>Alex Zenzola<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">-Julie Bowland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Professor and Gallery Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valdosta State University Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery VSU Fine Arts Building Corner of Brookwood and Oak Street Valdosta State University Gallery Hours: Monday \u2013 Thursday: 8:30 am \u2013 5:30 pm, Friday 8:30 am \u2013 3 pm The Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery presents Art is Hard Senior Exhibition Multi-media exhibition April 15th \u2013 May&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officeofthedean"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}