{"id":82439,"date":"2019-01-16T19:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T01:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=82439"},"modified":"2019-01-16T19:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T01:56:22","slug":"art-department-to-host-2019-mississippi-collegiate-art-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/01\/art-department-to-host-2019-mississippi-collegiate-art-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Department to Host 2019 Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Art Department will host this year\u2019s Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition from Jan. 26 through Feb. 21.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In its 69<sup>th<\/sup> year, the Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition is the most prestigious contest of its kind in Mississippi and open to all art students at four-year colleges and universities in the state. Submissions must have been created within the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny K. Hager, professor of sculpture at the University of North Florida, served as juror, selecting 103 pieces out of 892 entries from nine institutions for the month-long exhibition at DSU\u2019s Fielding Wright Art Center Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The juror also selects the winners of awards, including a best-of-show award and three awards of excellence as well as recognition of superior achievements in each medium. The awards will be presented during the opening reception\u00a0from 2 to 4 PM on Saturday, Jan. 26.<\/p>\n<p>The show runs until Thursday, Feb. 21. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 8 AM to 5 PM and Friday 8 AM to 4 PM. The gallery is closed on weekends, holidays, and during semester breaks. The gallery is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>For further information visit the DSU Art Department\u2019s website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/art\/\">https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/art\/<\/a> or contact 662.846.4720. For updates and announcements of upcoming events follow Delta State Art Department on Facebook or join our email list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Art Department will host this year\u2019s Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition from Jan. 26 through Feb. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":82440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-of-arts-and-sciences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82439","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\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82442,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82439\/revisions\/82442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}