{"id":8368,"date":"2019-09-03T16:41:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/03\/evelyn-henson\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:29:25","slug":"evelyn-henson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/evelyn-henson\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting the town with kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you think of artists, they\u2019re really edgy, they have piercings and tattoos and I\u2019m rolling in with Lilly Pulitzer and I just didn\u2019t think that I fit in. What\u2019s crazy is that what makes you successful as an artist is standing out, but I didn\u2019t realize that at 18.\u201d Those are the words of Charlotte-based illustrator Evelyn Henson, a 2013 Furman University graduate whose work appears in over 100 boutiques across the country. The art history and communication studies graduate also has licensing deals with the likes of Pottery Barn, Pier 1 and Hallmark. Now becoming famous for her whimsical murals in the Queen City, Henson&#8217;s artistry was featured in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southparkmagazine.com\/painting-the-town-with-kindness\/\">SouthPark Magazine<\/a><\/strong>.<b><\/b><u><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you think of artists, they\u2019re really edgy, they have piercings and tattoos and I\u2019m rolling in with Lilly Pulitzer and I just didn\u2019t think that I fit in. What\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,45,51,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-art","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}