{"id":1341,"date":"2021-07-01T16:26:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2021-07-01T16:26:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:26:48","slug":"troy-universitys-international-arts-center-shares-some-artspark-fun-with-the-boys-and-girls-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/07\/01\/troy-universitys-international-arts-center-shares-some-artspark-fun-with-the-boys-and-girls-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University&#8217;s International Arts Center shares some ArtSPARK fun with the Boys and Girls Club."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wednesday at <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/arts-culture\/international-arts-center\/\">International Arts Center<\/a>, the Boys and Girls Club of Pike County ignited a creative spark by participating in the IAC&#8217;s latest community involvement series known as ArtSPARK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today we are hosting an event that&#8217;s part of our ArtSPARK series that we&#8217;ve just started at the International Arts Center, says IAC Curator Carrie Jaxon.  &#8220;We have the Boys and Girls Club join us today which is really exciting they&#8217;re just a fun group of kids who really enjoy creating this art.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaxon says that a major goal within the ArtSPARK series is to bring the community together to make something fun yet impactful and that&#8217;s exactly why there is a deeper meaning behind the series itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For children, it&#8217;s very important to have that exposure early on because art facilitates so many different parts of their lives,&#8221; says Jaxon. &#8220;It&#8217;s connected to academics, emotions and it&#8217;s just a wonderful resource for them to to be able to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Xada&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday at Troy University&#8216;s International Arts Center, the Boys and Girls Club of Pike County ignited a creative spark by participating in the IAC&#8217;s latest community involvement series known as ArtSPARK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we are hosting an event that&#8217;s part of our ArtSPARK series that we&#8217;ve just started at the International Arts Center, says IAC Curator&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/07\/01\/troy-universitys-international-arts-center-shares-some-artspark-fun-with-the-boys-and-girls-club\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[576,413,117,116,194],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-artspark","tag-carrie-jaxon","tag-iac","tag-international-arts-center","tag-xada-ingram"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}