{"id":9099,"date":"2019-07-19T16:12:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9099"},"modified":"2019-07-19T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:12:37","slug":"newspress-now-artists-organizations-honored-at-mayors-awards-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/19\/newspress-now-artists-organizations-honored-at-mayors-awards-for-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsPress NOW: Artists, organizations honored at Mayor&#8217;s Awards for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"author-popup-1e50087a-9924-11e1-b5da-001a4bcf6878-asset-b2104fb6-a957-11e9-8673-5766ac0bbac4\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\">By Andrew Gaug News-Press NOW, <\/span>Jul 18, 2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>Six artists and organizations, including several massively influential people at º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø, were honored at the annual Mayor\u2019s Award for the Arts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>From volunteers to entertainers and educators, the locally-based groups and residents were recognized Thursday at Fairview Golf Course for their contributions to the local arts scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Included in those honored were former Missouri Western president Drs. Bob and Laurel Vartabedian, as well as Drew Brown, a supporter of the arts in the area who donated $1 million to support a visual annex at Potter Hall at the college.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even express how much this community means to us, \u201c Dr. Laurel Vartabedian said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Read the rest of the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/artists-organizations-honored-at-mayor-s-awards-for-the-arts\/article_b2104fb6-a957-11e9-8673-5766ac0bbac4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Gaug News-Press NOW, Jul 18, 2019 Six artists and organizations, including several massively influential people at º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø, were honored at the annual Mayor\u2019s Award for the Arts. From volunteers to entertainers and educators, the locally-based groups and residents were recognized Thursday at Fairview Golf Course for their contributions to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[970,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9100,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}