{"id":3819,"date":"2012-07-26T17:19:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/sites\/gsm_sum12\/?p=67"},"modified":"2014-06-02T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:59:05","slug":"arts-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2012\/07\/26\/arts-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"ArtsFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Festival Celebrates 30th Anniversary<\/h3>\n<p>Georgia Southern and the Statesboro community joined together on Sweetheart Circle to celebrate the 30th anniversary of ArtsFest. The festival, sponsored by the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, is a long-standing springtime tradition enjoyed by all ages honoring the visual and performing arts.<\/p>\n<p>Artists were on hand demonstrating their talents in jewelry, folk art, painting, ceramics and photography, while works from the Department\u2019s Jewelry Guild were also on display for purchase.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/artSet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3934\" alt=\"artSet\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/artSet.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/artSet.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/artSet-100x61.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMore than 25 studio shops hosted display booths where participants could paint, print, make paper from scratch, sculpt with clay, create jewelry or pose for a photo. The Humane Society invited guests to paint \u201cLarger Than Life\u201d dog sculptures at Paint-a-Pet, and also offered dogs and cats available for adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Guests enjoyed entertainment that included renowned Flamenco dancers, ballet, puppetry, theater and jazz and rock performances. A large menagerie of animals and birds from Georgia Southern\u2019s Center for Wildlife, including Glory, visited the festival.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u2014Mary Beth Spence<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festival Celebrates 30th Anniversary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-summer-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}