{"id":68,"date":"2013-08-15T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2013\/08\/15\/welcome-prof-lee\/"},"modified":"2013-08-15T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:40:00","slug":"welcome-prof-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2013\/08\/15\/welcome-prof-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Prof. Lee!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536573dde970b01901edd3f19970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jimmy_Whole_001_1200W\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010536573dde970b01901edd3f19970b image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536573dde970b01901edd3f19970b-800wi\" title=\"Jimmy_Whole_001_1200W\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Truman State University Art Department is pleased to welcome Prof. Lily Martina Lee as a new faculty member in the areas of Fibers, Sculpture, and three-dimensional art for the&#160;2013-2014 academic year. <\/p>\n<p>Lee, who comes originally from Washington state,&#160;received an MFA in Studio Art (Sculpture) from the University of Oregon in Eugene in 2012 and a BFA in Fibers and BA in American Indian Studies with a minor in Anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle. <\/p>\n<p>Her work involves a wide variety of techniques, including&#160;welding, grinding, sanding, stitching and beading, and she uses the resultant art to explore the relationship between identity, place, and material culture.<\/p>\n<p>She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Center on Contemporary Art in (Seattle),&#160;First Street Gallery (New York, NY), Modern Eden Gallery (San Francisco), and Scythia Fibre Art (Kherson, Ukraine). <\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Prof. Lee, and to see more of her work, please visit her <a href=\"http:\/\/lilymartinalee.com\/home.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"website\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to working with Professor Lee and getting to know her as she brings her talents and insights to the Art Department, to Truman State Univesity,&#160;and to the Kirksville community. We are fortunate to have her. Welcome Prof. Lee!<\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536573dde970b019104d32fda970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Indio_001_Edited\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010536573dde970b019104d32fda970c image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536573dde970b019104d32fda970c-800wi\" title=\"Indio_001_Edited\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536573dde970b0192ac9c91b8970d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spoiler_Edited_SIde\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010536573dde970b0192ac9c91b8970d image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536573dde970b0192ac9c91b8970d-800wi\" title=\"Spoiler_Edited_SIde\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truman State University Art Department is pleased to welcome Prof. Lily Martina Lee as a new faculty member in the areas of Fibers, Sculpture, and three-dimensional art for the&#160;2013-2014 academic year. Lee, who comes originally from Washington state,&#160;received an MFA in Studio Art (Sculpture) from the University of Oregon in Eugene in 2012 and&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2013\/08\/15\/welcome-prof-lee\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome, Prof. Lee!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22180,23404,22453,23284],"tags":[25205,24794,24908,23033],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department","category-faculty-scholarship-and-creative-work","category-news-and-events","category-website","tag-faculty","tag-fibers","tag-sculpture","tag-studio-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}