{"id":5671,"date":"2017-03-29T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T19:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:10:25","slug":"art-entrepreneurship-series-focuses-on-starting-a-business-april-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/29\/art-entrepreneurship-series-focuses-on-starting-a-business-april-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Art entrepreneurship series focuses on starting a business April 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/static1.squarespace.jpg\"><\/a> Sisters Michelle and Angie of Two Tone Press.\n<p>The Art Entrepreneurship Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University continues with two sisters who will talk about starting a small business at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, in Potter Hall, room 107. The talk is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle and Angie Dreher bought a building in Kansas City six years ago and started their letterpress business, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twotonepress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two Tone Press<\/a>. They will share their experiences of the challenges and rewards of starting a business from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle\u2019s love of relief printing and the letterpress process began at the Kansas City Art Institute and was fostered during her five-year stint at Hammerpress, another KC print shop. She is particularly passionate about creating hand-carved linocut illustrations. Angie, with a background in business, is the designated \u201cleft-brain\u201d of the studio, but also stretches her creative muscles with collaborative design work on a number of projects.<\/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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><em>www.missouriwestern.edu<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art Entrepreneurship Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University continues with two sisters who will talk about starting a small business at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, in Potter Hall, room 107. The talk is free and open to the public. Michelle and Angie Dreher bought a building in Kansas City six years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,52],"tags":[346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671"}],"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=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8277,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/8277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}