{"id":57071,"date":"2013-09-27T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=57071"},"modified":"2013-09-27T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:46:32","slug":"bluesland-exhibit-attracts-grant-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/09\/bluesland-exhibit-attracts-grant-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"BluesLand exhibit attracts grant funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">(photo: Easton Selby, the artist, speaking at the opening reception on 13 August.\u00a0 He is directing a response to Dr. John Strait of Sam Houston State University.\u00a0 Dr. Strait\u2019s research was the premise for the collaborative project, \u201cPhotographic Interpretations: The Geography &amp; Culture of the MS Delta Blues,\u201d of which BluesLand is a part.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Delta State University Archives &amp; Museum has been awarded a Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) grant in the amount of $1,500 to support the exhibit and programming for BluesLand by Easton Selby, showing now through Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Selby will be on campus for his final presentation in association with his exhibit on Nov. 7 for the &#8220;First Tuesday&#8221; noon program hosted in the main gallery of the Capps Archives &amp; Museum building. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Delta State Archivist Emily Jones said, \u201cTheir support for our exhibits, oral history programs and outreach programming is so encouraging. This is the ninth proposal I have submitted in my 10 years as the archivist at Delta State. I am thrilled to continue to work with the staff of MHC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This program is financially assisted by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Mississippi Humanities Council. For more information on Easton Selby and the parent show &#8220;Photographic Interpretations: The Culture &amp; Geography of the Delta Blues&#8221; please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talboteastonselby.com\/\">http:\/\/www.talboteastonselby.com\/<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/eric.ed.gov\/?id=EJ973216\">http:\/\/eric.ed.gov\/?id=EJ973216<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo: Easton Selby, the artist, speaking at the opening reception on 13 August.\u00a0 He is directing a response to Dr. John Strait of Sam Houston State University.\u00a0 Dr. Strait\u2019s research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":57072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1413,44,45,46],"class_list":["post-57071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-archives-and-museum","tag-archives-and-museum","tag-exhibit","tag-gallery","tag-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57073,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071\/revisions\/57073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}