{"id":2424,"date":"2022-02-10T16:12:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2022-02-10T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:12:33","slug":"new-statue-greets-visitors-to-the-troy-university-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/02\/10\/new-statue-greets-visitors-to-the-troy-university-library\/","title":{"rendered":"New statue greets visitors to the Troy University Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a new and returning addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> campus outside of Wallace Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Student Scholar statue created by artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-communication-fine-arts\/departments\/art-design\/huo-bao-zhu-gallery.html\">Huo Bao Zhu<\/a> now has a home in front of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/libraries\/\">university library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously the statue was placed in front of Rushing Hall but after a few years of storage it now resides in a different part of campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Well the statue came to us maybe three years ago from the artist Huo Bao Zhu who died maybe a year ago and was a really good friend of Dr. Hawkins,&#8221; says Dean of Libraries Dr. Chris Shaffer. &#8220;He&#8217;s also the person who designed and donated many of the terra cotta warriors and also some other statues on campus you may have noticed for the past few years.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaffer says that he hopes this new addition to campus will help inspire students who are heading into the library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think artwork of any kind has the ability to to truly inspire the onlooker,&#8221; says Shaffer. &#8220;I think that this will serve as a great inspiration for our students.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Claudia&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new and returning addition to the Troy University campus outside of Wallace Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The Student Scholar statue created by artist Huo Bao Zhu now has a home in front of the university library.<\/p>\n<p>Previously the statue was placed in front of Rushing Hall but after a few years of storage it now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/02\/10\/new-statue-greets-visitors-to-the-troy-university-library\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[303,103,845,844,302,846],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chris-shaffer","tag-claudia-peppenhorst","tag-huo-bao-zhu","tag-student-scholar-statue","tag-troy-university-library","tag-wallace-hall"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","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=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}