{"id":121373,"date":"2017-01-25T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=121373"},"modified":"2017-01-25T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T16:17:57","slug":"opening-january-26th-benton-museum-uconn-reads-sacred-ground-50th-art-faculty-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/01\/opening-january-26th-benton-museum-uconn-reads-sacred-ground-50th-art-faculty-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening January 26th at the Benton Museum: UConn Reads: Sacred Ground &#038; 50th Art Faculty Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January 26 \u2013 March 12, 2017<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening Reception: Thursday, February 2, 2017<br \/>\n4:30 \u2013 6:30pm<\/p>\n<h3>UConn Reads: Sacred Ground<\/h3>\n<p>Inspired by this year\u2019s UConn Reads selected book, <em>Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America<\/em> by Eboo Patel, this exhibition features artists and subjects connected by a shared history, ideals, and identity that serve as bridges of cooperation throughout Islam and America. We have juxtaposed Eboo Patel\u2019s words with images by international artists who illustrate and support his thesis and his message.<\/p>\n<p>*All works in the exhibition courtesy of the Leila Heller Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Connecticut\u2019s UConn Reads program has been created to bring together the University community \u2013 from students, faculty, and staff to alumni and friends of UConn, as well as citizens of Connecticut \u2013 for a far-reaching and engaging dialogue centered on a book suggested by the community.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"post-title item fn\">The 50th Annual Studio Art Faculty Exhibition<\/h3>\n<p>This annual exhibition highlights recent work of the permanent, adjunct, and visiting studio art faculty from the Department of Art and Art History, School of Fine Arts at UConn. A variety of media are featured; painting, sculpture, illustration, graphic design, printmaking, photography, and installation art. Such diverse bodies of work represent the most significant directions in contemporary art, as well as the unique vision of each artist-faculty member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 26 \u2013 March 12, 2017 Opening Reception: Thursday, February 2, 2017 4:30 \u2013 6:30pm UConn Reads: Sacred Ground Inspired by this year\u2019s UConn Reads selected book, Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America by Eboo Patel, this exhibition features artists and subjects connected by a shared history, ideals, and identity that serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":121374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1914],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2060],"class_list":["post-121373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sfa"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 11:08:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121375,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121373\/revisions\/121375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/121374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121373"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=121373"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=121373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}