{"id":1679,"date":"2015-05-11T13:42:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T21:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2015-05-11T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T21:42:38","slug":"faculty-art-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/faculty-art-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Art Showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1684\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC_0014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1684\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1684\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC_0014-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Jean performs for the patrons<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1686\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC_0021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1686\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1686\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC_0021-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Gallery reception<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Josiah Birkbeck<\/p>\n<p>A culmination of artistic events occurred Monday, May Eleventh when performing arts showcased in the Taft College Art Gallery while at the same time Taft College faculty displayed their own creations on canvas and photographic art. Professors\u00a0 Jean and Golling gave live performances in their area of artistic expertise. Jean performed his own compositions and famous works on his guitar. Professor Golling and Syddney Edwards,\u00a0a student,\u00a0performed a scene\u00a0from\u00a0&#8220;The Funeral&#8221; by Christopher Durang.<\/p>\n<p>The art gallery was set up with folding chairs, spectators sitting in a semi-circle around a central area where the performances were given. Recording equipment was present allowing others at future times the ability to enjoy all that the show had to offer.<\/p>\n<p>The Faculty Art Exhibit displayed art from Maggie Blackwell, Anna Dimayuga, Jonathan Elsdon, Erin Kaczkowski, Suzanne Acosta, Deborah Rodenhauser, Armondo Rubio and Gary Graupman. Art displayed varied in media from pastels on canvas to digitally viewed photographs. Rubio took inspiration from the romantic era painter Caravaggio. Applying Caravaggio&#8217;s methods\u00a0in a more contemporary setting. Rubio\u00a0commented\u00a0on his work in the present digital age using the archaic methods,\u00a0\u201c. . . so it\u2019s just taking an old idea, old techniques and furthering that idea with contemporary approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o0Bz44k1nIY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Brian Jean performs for the patrons   Art Gallery reception  &nbsp;  By Josiah Birkbeck  A culmination of artistic events occurred Monday, May Eleventh when performing arts showcased in the Taft College Art Gallery while at the same time Taft College faculty displayed their own<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}