{"id":11110,"date":"2026-10-02T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:24:20","slug":"artspark-encourages-families-to-explore-cameras-and-troys-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/10\/02\/artspark-encourages-families-to-explore-cameras-and-troys-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"ArtSPARK encourages families to explore cameras and Troy’s campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Troy University’s ArtSPARK is giving families a chance to get creative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From painting to exploring a giant interactive camera, families had plenty of ways to get creative Saturday morning at Troy’s International Arts Center<\/a> (IAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is ArtSPARK,” said Carrie Jaxon, IAC Director\/Curator. “This is a community program we’ve had going since 2021. Today we are creating camera sculptures with our families and our children.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ArtSPARK brought families together for a free morning of art and activities at Troy University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a monthly event,” said Rebekah Alexander, teaching artist. “We try to get together monthly. It’s free for families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s meant to get families and little ones together to create art in a fun museum environment. We also have scavenger hunts.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAMPUS NEWS: ISCO celebrates International Day of Peace during its Peace Walk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event featured an art project with Alexander, inspired by the work of a photographer and artist Pinky Bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Pinky Bass is an amazing Alabama photographer,” Alexander explained. “Since a lot of her work encapsulates the camera itself and the mechanics of that, we decided to make our own little box cameras.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with creating art, families could check out a giant interactive camera that takes part in a scavenger hunt and enjoy other activities throughout the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“[The] art scavenger hunt opens the the door to them really investigating the artwork and kind of taking a closer look at what we have on display,” Jaxon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ArtSPARK’s next event has not been announced. Dates will be posted on the IAC’s website and Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Troy University’s ArtSPARK is giving families a chance to get creative. <\/p>\n

From painting to exploring a giant interactive camera, families had plenty of ways to get creative Saturday morning at Troy’s International Arts Center (IAC).<\/p>\n

“This is ArtSPARK,” said Carrie Jaxon, IAC Director\/Curator. “This is a community program we’ve had…<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":11113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[576,413,117,116,3407,3406],"topics":[24],"class_list":["post-11110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-artspark","tag-carrie-jaxon","tag-iac","tag-international-arts-center","tag-pinky-bass","tag-rebeka-alexander","topics-international-arts-center"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11112,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions\/11112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11110"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=11110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}