{"id":138,"date":"2017-04-09T03:56:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/?p=138"},"modified":"2017-05-05T03:26:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T03:26:33","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/2017\/04\/09\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><em>In Focus\u00a0<\/em>profiles influential and aspiring museum professionals, art enthusiasts, and creatives of color through art and biography.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Accompanying each portrait is commentary that illuminates the subject&#8217;s life in the arts, including their: career pathways, passions, hopes for their professional field, and the moment they fell in love with and committed themselves <\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">to the arts or the museum profession. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Each interview begins with the same question, &#8220;Can you tell me about your earliest experience with art or a museum?&#8221; And from whatever answer is given to this question, a conversation that is tailored to the interests of the interviewee organically emerged. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">While the interviews presented in <em>In Focus<\/em> highlight the unique experiences of each individual, they also illuminate certain convergences that exist between their<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b> personal experiences and narratives. The themes that were threaded throughout each interview include: art as a means of creative expression, art as a platform that provides space for one&#8217;s voice to be heard, and art as a medium that conveys more than language. In addition, words such as <em>diversity<\/em>, <em>representation<\/em>, <em>voice<\/em>, and <em>inclusion<\/em> emerged recurrently.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">A Special Thanks to Jessica Berube, Creative Designer of the images on this website. For more information about Jessica visit her artist site: <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/jessicacberube.myportfolio.com\">https:\/\/jessicacberube.myportfolio.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-20\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"20\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Acknowledgments\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Focus\u00a0profiles influential and aspiring museum professionals, art enthusiasts, and creatives of color through art and biography.\u00a0 Accompanying each portrait is commentary that illuminates the subject&#8217;s life in the arts, including their: career pathways, passions, hopes for their professional field, and the moment they fell in love with and committed themselves to the arts or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}