{"id":9099,"date":"2019-07-19T16:12:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9099"},"modified":"2019-07-19T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:12:37","slug":"newspress-now-artists-organizations-honored-at-mayors-awards-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/19\/newspress-now-artists-organizations-honored-at-mayors-awards-for-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsPress NOW: Artists, organizations honored at Mayor&#8217;s Awards for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"author-popup-1e50087a-9924-11e1-b5da-001a4bcf6878-asset-b2104fb6-a957-11e9-8673-5766ac0bbac4\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\">By Andrew Gaug News-Press NOW, <\/span>Jul 18, 2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>Six artists and organizations, including several massively influential people at Missouri Western State University, were honored at the annual Mayor\u2019s Award for the Arts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>From volunteers to entertainers and educators, the locally-based groups and residents were recognized Thursday at Fairview Golf Course for their contributions to the local arts scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Included in those honored were former Missouri Western president Drs. Bob and Laurel Vartabedian, as well as Drew Brown, a supporter of the arts in the area who donated $1 million to support a visual annex at Potter Hall at the college.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even express how much this community means to us, \u201c Dr. Laurel Vartabedian said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Read the rest of the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/artists-organizations-honored-at-mayor-s-awards-for-the-arts\/article_b2104fb6-a957-11e9-8673-5766ac0bbac4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Gaug News-Press NOW, Jul 18, 2019 Six artists and organizations, including several massively influential people at Missouri Western State University, were honored at the annual Mayor\u2019s Award for the Arts. From volunteers to entertainers and educators, the locally-based groups and residents were recognized Thursday at Fairview Golf Course for their contributions to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[970,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099"}],"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=9099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9100,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}