{"id":5479,"date":"2017-02-08T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:11:38","slug":"art-entrepreneurship-speaker-series-continues-feb-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/art-entrepreneurship-speaker-series-continues-feb-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Art entrepreneurship speaker series continues Feb. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Swangstu, a painter, art administrator and gallery owner, will present a talk titled: \u201cCommon Courtesy: Approaching a Gallery\u201d at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15 in Potter Hall, room 107 as part of Missouri Western State University\u2019s Artist Entrepreneurship Speaker Series. The talk is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/02\/Eric-Swangstu.jpg\"><\/a> untitled (melroy) by Eric Swangstu, 2011\n<p>Swangstu will talk to artists about the property way of approaching galleries, how to prepare and what to expect. He will also talk about navigating the graduate school application process. Swangstu ran his own gallery and is currently the admissions director of the University of Washington\u2019s Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design program.<\/p>\n<p>As an artist, Swangstu participated in Mel Chin\u2019s artist collective, the GALA Committee, in the late 90s, when the group placed public art on the set of the television show \u201cMelrose Place.\u201d His artwork is included in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Government Employees Hospital Association in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Swangstu, a painter, art administrator and gallery owner, will present a talk titled: \u201cCommon Courtesy: Approaching a Gallery\u201d at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15 in Potter Hall, room 107 as part of Missouri Western State University\u2019s Artist Entrepreneurship Speaker Series. The talk is free and open to the public. Swangstu will talk to artists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67,48],"tags":[346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8252,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}