{"id":70293,"date":"2016-05-24T07:45:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T12:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=70293"},"modified":"2016-05-24T07:45:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T12:45:59","slug":"dsu-fashion-students-and-faculty-showcase-work-at-delta-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/05\/dsu-fashion-students-and-faculty-showcase-work-at-delta-council\/","title":{"rendered":"DSU Fashion Students and Faculty Showcase Work at Delta Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State fashion merchandising students and faculty showcased some of their original cotton apparel designs at the recent meeting of the Delta Council.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Jan Haynes, Professor of Fashion Merchandising in the Division of Family and Consumer Sciences, these designs were created from upcycled materials, such as cotton sheets\u00a0and\u00a0were eco-dyed with natural dyes at a DSU cotton workshop in September, taught by Pat Brown, MFA. The students\u2019 designs were then presented at the <em>Cotton Summit <\/em>event held at Mississippi State in November.<\/p>\n<p>This was the culmination of\u00a0 a grant project, \u201c<em>Delta Cotton, Weaving Futures,\u201d <\/em>that included three day-long educational events featuring cotton. The grant project was a joint partnership of the three Mississippi universities that offer Fashion Merchandising programs: Delta State, Mississippi State, and the University of Southern Mississippi. Funding was provided by the Importer Support Program of the Cotton Board and Cotton Incorporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State fashion merchandising students and faculty showcased some of their original cotton apparel designs at the recent meeting of the Delta Council. According to Dr. Jan Haynes, Professor of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":70294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605,296,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delta-council","category-facultystaff","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70293","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\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70298,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70293\/revisions\/70298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}