{"id":45991,"date":"2015-03-12T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=45991"},"modified":"2015-03-12T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:55:12","slug":"art-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/art-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Art at the Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/arth.jpg\" alt=\"arth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45993\" \/>Colorful images from Japan<!--more--><br \/>\nStep into Briggs Public Library in St. Johns between now and March 28, and you will find yourself surrounded by colorful images from Japan and St. Johns created by elementary students and displayed in the 20th annual St. Johns-Konan Art Exchange Exhibit. The works show the similarities and differences in these cultures half a world apart, as seen through the eyes and minds of children.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/art.jpg\" alt=\"art\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45995\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Kelseigh Schalow enjoys the pictures displayed. The two upper pictures are from Japan, and the two lower from St. Johns. <\/em><br \/>\nThe St. Johns &#8211; Konan Friendship Society, under Clinton County Arts Council, coordinates the program with great help from a number of cooperating agencies. The St. Johns Public Schools art teachers, Ann DenHerder and Kelly Parsons, work with the students as they develop the art, and helped fasten much of the artwork to display banners; and St. Johns music teacher Shirley Ries, teaches about 20 elementary students to sing traditional Japanese songs for the opening reception.<br \/>\nBriggs Public Library provides their space and helps with the opening reception that honors the students. The City of St. Johns provides material and technical support. Students in the Art Honor Society of Ovid-Elsie High School, under direction of their teacher Laura Weber, hang the approximately 300 pieces of art one Saturday afternoon and take it down 4 weeks later. And the City of Konan in Shiga, Japan does everything there that is done here: the artwork is sent from Japan to St. Johns and displayed; then the St. Johns artwork is sent to Konan for them to display along with a new set of their artwork.<br \/>\nThis exhibit is the signature program of the friendship city relationship, begun in 1993, between St. Johns and Konan, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is one of 17 sister or friendship cities in Michigan, based on the Sister State relationship between Michigan and Shiga which began in 1968 under Governor George Romney. It is an honor each year to have the visiting Shiga Official, who is stationed in Lansing, come to the opening reception of this exhibit in St. Johns. The current official, Teruyuki Ueyama, tantalized the audience with the information that there is a real 350-year-old Ninja house in the area where he lives in Shiga, complete with trap doors, low ceilings and other features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorful images from Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45991","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=45991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}