{"id":146,"date":"2017-04-11T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/?p=146"},"modified":"2017-05-05T03:25:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T03:25:52","slug":"beryl-briane-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/2017\/04\/11\/beryl-briane-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Beryl Briane Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-6\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"6\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Beryl Briane Ford\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<pre style=\"text-align: left\">Name: Beryl Briane Ford \r\nTitle: Creator of <em>In Focus, \r\n<\/em>Former Education and Special Programs Intern at \r\nThe National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. <em>\u00a0<\/em><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center\">On March 3, 2016 I penned the following reflection for my \r\nMuseums Concentration portfolio: \"My name is Beryl Briane Ford, \r\nand I am an Art Historian and Museum Studies concentrator \r\nstudying at Smith College. Artwork depicting and created\r\n by people of color is what \r\nstirs my passions.\r\n\r\nAs a Museum Studies concentrator, Smith College Museum of Art \r\nStudent Educator, and a major in the Art History department, \r\nI have always been concerned with the underrepresentation of \r\nartists, subjects, students and staff of color in arts spaces. \r\nBecause of this concern, I always make sure to be \r\nintentional about \r\ninserting myself into arts spaces\u2013 whether by \r\nvoicing my\r\n opinion in the classroom or designing tours \r\nand programs at the SCMA around a diverse thematic \r\nand cultural assemblage of artworks. \r\nDuring my time at Smith, visibility has increasingly \r\nbecome a priority for me as I have realized\r\n that cultural institutions are locked into certain \r\ninflexible structures. \r\n\r\nBy asserting my presence and skills into the inflexible \r\narchitecture of museums and the academy, I aim to \r\nmake a statement \r\nabout who can be interested in art and who can educate \r\nabout and safeguard art.\r\n\r\nIn Focus \r\nwas born out all of these intersections which \r\nremain just as relevant today.\r\n Enjoy!<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Beryl Briane Ford Title: Creator of In Focus, Former Education and Special Programs Intern at The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. \u00a0 On March 3, 2016 I penned the following reflection for my Museums Concentration portfolio: &#8220;My name is Beryl Briane Ford, and I am an Art Historian and Museum Studies concentrator studying at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","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=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ford-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}