{"id":52209,"date":"2018-07-10T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=52209"},"modified":"2018-07-10T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:30:37","slug":"art-exhibition-takes-a-closer-look-at-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/07\/art-exhibition-takes-a-closer-look-at-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Art exhibition takes a closer look at trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the old saying goes, one man\u2019s trash is another man\u2019s treasure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through a new art exhibition, students at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) want to open the public\u2019s eyes to the possibilities that lie in commonly discarded items.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition, Gleaners, challenges people\u2019s relationships with everyday objects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its artists, a Brock sculpture class, have been collecting materials from dumpsters and garbage cans to create new works of art from materials that are often used, misused and taken for granted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are running out of landfills for our trash and because of our carelessness, items are wasting in the ground,\u201d says student Angeline Turner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBy using mostly found and recycled materials, the artists are making an effort to not only help the environment but also to show that by thinking outside the box, we can reduce waste.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition is on at the VISA Gallery at MIWSFPA during regular gallery hours until Saturday, July 21.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the old saying goes, one man\u2019s trash is another man\u2019s treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[384,6809,30,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52210,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52209\/revisions\/52210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}