{"id":3428,"date":"2013-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/01\/04\/delta-state-archive-and-museum-awarded-grant\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:05:43","slug":"delta-state-archive-and-museum-awarded-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/01\/delta-state-archive-and-museum-awarded-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State Archive and Museum awarded grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2013 Releases\/2011_Capps.jpg\" alt=\"Capps Archives\" width=\"222\" height=\"297\" align=\"left\" class=\"caption\" \/>The Mississippi Humanities Council has awarded $4,000 to the Delta State University Archive and Museum to support its newest project, &quot;Preserving and Sharing a Mississippi Delta History.&quot; The grant provides funding for the research, development and production of a new traveling exhibit to be completed by January 2014.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&quot;This project will feature photography from award-winning artist, Debra Ferguson, while layering southern authors &#8216;quotable quotes&#8217; with historically accurate facts to present a stunningly visual and literary piece of Delta history,&rdquo; said Delta State University Archivist Emily Jones. &ldquo;The final product will be a one-of-a-kind traveling exhibit with a supporting web presence and promotional materials. The project will also promote preserving our history by donating materials to archival repositories, celebrating our local history and reinforcing a sense of pride and ownership in our history.&quot;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;The Mississippi Humanities Council has been extremely supportive of the numerous projects and programs we have hosted over the years I&#8217;ve been at Delta State. I am very excited to begin this new project,&rdquo; said Jones.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The program is financially assisted by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Mississippi Humanities Council.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>For more information about this and other Delta State University Archive and Museum events and exhibits, contact Emily Jones at 662.846.4780, ejones@deltastate.edu.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mississippi Humanities Council has awarded $4,000 to the Delta State University Archive and Museum to support its newest project,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3428","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\/3428","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=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40874,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions\/40874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}