{"id":39486,"date":"2014-03-06T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=39486"},"modified":"2014-03-06T21:58:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T01:58:04","slug":"briggs-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/briggs-129\/","title":{"rendered":"Library festooned with student art from Japan and St. Johns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/14march\/japanth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/>Briggs Public Library<!--more--><br \/>\nGet a close-up look at Japan through the eyes of Japanese elementary and middle school students by walking into Brigg&#8217;s Public Library, now through March 29. You will see a colorful display of art by students from Konan, Japan, hanging alongside art work by elementary and middle school students in St. Johns.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/14march\/japan.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><em>Briggs Public Library was magically transformed after closing time on March 1 by the efforts of students in Ovid-Elsie High School&#8217;s National Art Honor Society, under the direction of their teacher and advisor, Laura Weber. The student volunteers will be back to take down the art work March 29.<\/em><br \/>\nWhen this exhibit has been taken down, the St. Johns student works will be sent to Konan for the population there to enjoy seeing Michigan through the eyes of our students, hanging up with art by the Japanese students. This is the 19th annual student art exchange between St. Johns and Konan, our friendship city, which is located in Shiga, Michigan&#8217;s sister state.<br \/>\nSince the friendship city began in 1996, there have also been citizens who traveled between the two cities. The most recent from St. Johns were Tom and Marilyn Irrer, who went with the Michigan-Shiga Goodwill Mission in October and stayed with a host family. A number of families in St. Johns likewise have hosted Goodwill Mission participants coming from Konan.<br \/>\nThe annual Student Art Exchange Exhibit wouldn&#8217;t be possible without the efforts of St. Johns elementary and middle school art teachers: Ms. DenHerder and Ms. Parsons; middle school art teacher: Mr. Fromson; and elementary vocal music teacher Ms. Ries, who teaches Japanese folk songs to a group of students for the opening reception each year. Other partners include the St. Johns-Konan Friendship Society; Briggs Public Library, the City of St. Johns and Clinton County Arts Council, with Big Boy Restaurants of St. Johns generously donating a large tray of veggies and dip for the opening reception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briggs Public Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briggs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}