{"id":9567,"date":"2021-10-01T12:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/01\/students-soar-in-wings-of-the-city-instagram-challenge\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:43:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:43:42","slug":"students-soar-in-wings-of-the-city-instagram-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/students-soar-in-wings-of-the-city-instagram-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Students soar in \u2018Wings of the City\u2019 Instagram challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Furman Spanish Professor Ang\u00e9lica Lozano-Alonso<\/a> asked her students to participate in the #WingsoftheCityGVL Instagram photo challenge, she no doubt would\u2019ve been thrilled with a single winner from her class. Turns out her students swept first, second and third place in the competition sponsored by the Jorge Mar\u00edn Foundation<\/a>, Hispanic Alliance<\/a> and the Consulate General of Mexico<\/a> in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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Dani Boyette ’22. ‘A walk in the clouds.’<\/p><\/div>\n

The exhibition, \u201cWings of the City<\/a>,\u201d a flock of nine winged bronze sculptures by renowned Mexican sculptor Mar\u00edn, has dotted Falls Park and the Peace Center campus in downtown Greenville since April. As part of Lozano-Alonso\u2019s Hispanics in the United States class, she had students visit the exhibition, write a reflection, and then participate in the Instagram competition with a photo and caption in Spanish. Winners were determined by the number of likes their photos collected.<\/p>\n

Dani Boyette \u201922 of Greenville, a communication studies and Spanish language and literature double major, took first place with her photo captioned \u201cA walk in the clouds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to see art created by a Mexican artist in Greenville was helpful because it brought awareness to Hispanic artists as well as thought-provoking ideas that are different for Greenville and the non-Hispanic community here,\u201d Boyette said.<\/p>\n

Kate Massey \u201922 was out with a friend at dinner when she learned of her winning photo with caption, \u201cI want to fly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kate Massey ’22. ‘I want to fly!’<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI saw a girl that was in my Spanish class, and she was like, \u2018Did you see that you won?\u2019 And I just started laughing because I thought she was kidding. But then I checked my phone and there it was,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The intermediate-level class, taught entirely in Spanish, is typically earmarked for majors, but Massey\u2019s love for the language drew her in, not to mention the extras Lozono-Alonso adds to the mix such as the competition and invited speakers. Students also receive community engagement credit on their transcripts for taking the course.<\/p>\n

\u201cActivities like the competition really engage you in the community. The class has been a great opportunity to see how Hispanic heritage and culture is celebrated in Greenville,\u201d Massey said.<\/p>\n

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Cameron Baird ’24. ‘Downtown and outside.’<\/p><\/div>\n

Both Boyette and Massey won original lithographs by Mar\u00edn. A basket of gift cards and goodies from local retailers went to Cameron Baird \u201924 who won third prize for his photo captioned \u201cDowntown and outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baird, a Spanish and business double major from Greenville, said he was ecstatic to learn of the news and owes some of his success to loyal roommates who shared in the challenge. \u201cThe contest added another dimension of outreach and awareness of Hispanics in our community. It brought a beautiful lens to see Greenville through,\u201d Baird said.<\/p>\n

The City of Greenville and Hispanic Alliance worked in concert to bring the exhibition to Greenville \u2013 the first time the sculptures have been on display east of the Mississippi. Sponsored by Bank of America, the exhibition also received support from the Furman Humanities Center<\/a>, which funded Mar\u00edn\u2019s installation of \u201cEl Tiempo,\u201d an armless, winged figure reminiscent of ancient ruins, prompting viewers to consider untold stories.<\/p>\n

In a related article<\/a>, Michele Speitz, director of the Humanities Center and associate professor of English literature, said, \u201cAt an institution like Furman, we would want to support those intersections between the arts and the humanities, and between the sciences and culture \u2014 not just within the university\u2019s bounds but within the community. We just won the Carnegie award for community engagement, so we are in the top tier of universities that strive to do these [kinds of outreach].\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWings of the City\u201d is set to fly to Raleigh, North Carolina, in October, but not before underscoring for Greenvillians the importance of migration and cultural exchange the art represents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Furman Spanish Professor Ang\u00e9lica Lozano-Alonso asked her students to participate in the #WingsoftheCityGVL Instagram photo challenge, she no doubt would\u2019ve been thrilled with a single winner from her class. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,17,28,31,16,61,5],"tags":[1077,1078,1079,629,278,1080],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-business-and-accounting","category-centers-and-institutes","category-education","category-english","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-the-furman-advantage","category-top-four-news-1st-story","tag-community-engagement","tag-hispanic-heritage","tag-jorge-marin","tag-latinx","tag-mexico","tag-sculpture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","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=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}