{"id":79899,"date":"2017-04-17T21:32:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T01:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=79899"},"modified":"2017-04-17T20:46:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T00:46:58","slug":"community-mural-featuring-harriet-tubman-to-debut-may-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=79899","title":{"rendered":"Community mural featuring Harriet Tubman to debut May 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=79901\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79901\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-79901\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSCF0220-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSCF0220-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSCF0220-150x67.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSCF0220-900x399.jpg 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSCF0220-400x178.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Schweinfurth Art Center will celebrate the installation a 32-foot wide crocheted mural of Harriet Tubman on the front of the Art Center on Thursday, May 4, from 6-8pm.\u00a0Over 150 community volunteers\u00a0have created the mural by crocheting 2ft x 2ft squares under the direction of visiting artist, Olek.\u00a0The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The mural is part of the\u00a0Love Across the USA\u00a0crochet project by Olek, an internationally\u00a0recognized artist whose work amplifies the voices of women. Olek&#8217;s goal is to create a large-scale\u00a0mural in every <!--more-->state, celebrating strong female figures in U.S. history. For the state of New York, Olek is featuring two women: Harriet Tubman in Auburn, and Susan B. Anthony in Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn will be one of the first cities in the country to complete the project.<\/p>\n<p>The installation of the mural will begin in the morning May 4. Olek will be unrolling the mural from the roof of the Art Center, and a film-maker will be on site, documenting the event in the afternoon. Students from Genesee Elementary will perform at 6:15 p.m., and the Auburn Community Chorus will perform at 6:30 p.m. Olek will be on hand to talk about the project. Light refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>The Schweinfurth Art Center hosted three free workshops in March where Olek taught participants how to crochet and distributed instructions. The mural was divided into 2ft x 2ft square patterns\u00a0that volunteers took home to complete. People of all skill levels and backgrounds participated.<\/p>\n<p>Olek will return to Auburn to connect the squares a few days before the installation, with the\u00a0assistance of her team and local volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>This project was made possible by Olek, sponsorship from the Senator John A. DeFrancisco Arts\u00a0in Cayuga County Program, Red Heart Yarn, the Hilton Garden Inn, Jesse Kline, Jamie Rathbone,\u00a0the Schweinfurth Art Center Board of Trustees, and the 150 volunteers who worked\u00a0created the squares for the mural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Schweinfurth Art Center will celebrate the installation a 32-foot wide crocheted mural of Harriet Tubman on the front of the Art Center on Thursday, May 4, from 6-8pm.\u00a0Over 150 community volunteers\u00a0have created the mural by crocheting 2ft x 2ft squares under the direction of visiting artist, Olek.\u00a0The event is free and open to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22367,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-history","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}