{"id":4634,"date":"2016-07-08T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T18:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/18\/honoring-a-south-carolina-artist\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:48:08","slug":"honoring-a-south-carolina-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/honoring-a-south-carolina-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring a Very Special Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25443\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25443\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25443 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/courtney-tollison-1.jpg\" alt=\"Courtney Tollison Hartness\" width=\"254\" height=\"244\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 254px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 254\/244;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Courtney Tollison Hartness<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Among the myriad events commemorating last year\u2019s tragedy in Charleston is \u201cRequiem for Mother Emanuel,\u201d a powerful exhibit of batik paintings by Orangeburg resident and renowned artist Leo Twiggs on display through the end of this month. In a column for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thetandd.com\/news\/opinion\/columns\/twiggs-enduring-memorial\/article_34b79db2-46c1-563f-950d-f742a3b0a341.html\">The Times and Democrat<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in Orangeburg, Furman history professor Courtney Tollison Hartness writes about the African-American artist whose work has been called prophetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the myriad events commemorating last year\u2019s tragedy in Charleston is \u201cRequiem for Mother Emanuel,\u201d a powerful exhibit of batik paintings by Orangeburg resident and renowned artist Leo Twiggs on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":16023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}