{"id":3152,"date":"2012-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/07\/27\/delta-state-to-host-melanie-tyler-owen-memorial-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:10","slug":"delta-state-to-host-melanie-tyler-owen-memorial-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/07\/delta-state-to-host-melanie-tyler-owen-memorial-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to host Melanie Tyler Owen memorial exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2012 Releases\/Owen 2008 (2).png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Delta State University Department of Art will host a memorial exhibition of the works of Melanie Tyler Owen, July 29 &#8211; August 29, in the Wright Art Gallery, beginning with an opening reception July 29 from 4 &#8211; 6 p.m. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Owen graduated from Delta State in 2003 with a B.F.A. in sculpture.&nbsp; She was a graduate student in sculpture at the University of Alabama at the time of her death in an automobile accident near Birmingham on October 31, 2008. The exhibition is a survey of her art from the beginning of her student period through her work at the John Richards Company in Greenwood and her entry into graduate school. Drawings, paintings, 2-D design, and sculpture comprise the body of work on display. <\/p>\n<p>The Melanie Tyler Owen Scholarship was established in 2008 with donations being accepted by the Art Department in her memory; anyone wishing to honor Melanie may send their gift to DSU Box 3141, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS 38733.<\/p>\n<p>The community is cordially invited to attend the reception. The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-4:30 p.m. For more information, please contact the Delta State University Art Department at 662-846-4720.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Department of Art will host a memorial exhibition of the works of Melanie Tyler Owen, July 29 &#8211; August 29, in the Wright Art Gallery, beginning with an opening reception July 29 from 4 &#8211; 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40988,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/40988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}