{"id":614,"date":"2015-10-21T04:36:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T04:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/?p=614"},"modified":"2015-10-21T04:36:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T04:36:52","slug":"alumni-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2015\/10\/21\/alumni-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni News"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were thrilled to see that the research of Art Department alumnus Dr. John Garton (BA:\u00a0 Art History and Studio Art, 1997) has been getting a lot\u00a0 of circulation recently in the Boston area.\u00a0 While Dr. Garton\u2019s Ph.D. and current research continue his Senior Thesis \u00a0focus at Truman on painting in Renaissance Venice, he maintains an active secondary specialization in Latin American art, especially art of the pre-Columbian period.\u00a0 Most recently his interdisciplinary, collaborative research on Olmec sculpture has resulted in a short piece in the Boston Globe<\/a> <\/em>and a video feature which will be displayed in the galleries of the Worcester Art Museum and can be viewed on line<\/a>.\u00a0 Dr. Garton is Associate Professor<\/a> of Art History at Clark University in Massachusetts.\u00a0 Congratulations!<\/p>\n

Grant Kniffen (BSE: Art, 1984) stopped by when he was in town this September, when he told Bob Jones, Professor of Art, that he retired in 2013 after teaching 27 years at Parkway North High School in Saint Louis, Missouri.\u00a0In 1995, Grant was selected Secondary Art Teacher of the Year by the Missouri Art Education Association. He was\u00a0Parkway School District’s High School Teacher of the Year during the 1996-1997 school year. You can see his work in a variety of mediums on his website.<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are an alum and have news to share, please write to us at art@truman.edu<\/u><\/a>!\u00a0 We\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n

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We were thrilled to see that the research of Art Department alumnus Dr. John Garton (BA:\u00a0 Art History and Studio Art, 1997) has been getting a lot\u00a0 of circulation recently in the Boston area.\u00a0 While Dr. Garton\u2019s Ph.D. and current research continue his Senior Thesis \u00a0focus at Truman on painting in Renaissance Venice, he maintains…Read more Alumni News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":415,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8023,22008,25306,1],"tags":[8023,44674],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-art-history","category-mae","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni","tag-art-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}