{"id":7610,"date":"2025-03-03T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=7610"},"modified":"2025-03-25T19:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:55:50","slug":"troy-iac-hosts-cookies-and-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/03\/03\/troy-iac-hosts-cookies-and-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy IAC hosts Cookies and Crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/arts-culture\/international-arts-center\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Arts Center<\/a> (IAC), hosted a Valentine&#8217;s Day-themed crafting event, which included activities such as embroidering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cookies and Crafts gave students and faculty a chance to unwind before Cupid&#8217;s special day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We always like to have these opportunities to offer to our Troy students, faculty, and staff to take a break and to stop in our space to create,&#8221; said Director and Curator of the IAC Carrie Jaxon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IAC not only gives faculty and students the chance to create something special for their special someone but also takes a break from their busy schedules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We hope that it just gives them the opportunity to stop in a busy day full of classes and notetaking and to use their creativity and their hands and make something for themselves or making something to give to someone else,&#8221; Jaxon explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With slow, soft jazz playing in the back, students got to relax and learn how to do something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s very relaxing because I was expecting something very simple, and I didn&#8217;t know how to do this when I came in here, so I feel like I even learned how to embroider,&#8221; Freshman Meredith Andrews said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just been a good experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Valentine&#8217;s Day in the rearview, the IAC plans next to host the opening of two new exhibits on February 20 from 5-7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To stay current on IAC events, follow Troy IAC on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/internationalartscentertroy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iac_troyuniversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 The International Arts Center (IAC), hosted a Valentine&#8217;s Day-themed crafting event, which included activities such as embroidering. <\/p>\n<p>Cookies and Crafts gave students and faculty a chance to unwind before Cupid&#8217;s special day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We always like to have these opportunities to offer to our Troy students, faculty, and staff to take&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/03\/03\/troy-iac-hosts-cookies-and-crafts\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":7664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[413,116,51,118,119,361],"topics":[24,17],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-carrie-jaxon","tag-international-arts-center","tag-troy","tag-troy-iac","tag-troy-international-arts-center","tag-valentines-day","topics-international-arts-center","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7695,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions\/7695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}