{"id":26131,"date":"2016-11-09T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=26131"},"modified":"2016-11-10T08:34:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T14:34:54","slug":"gallery-leah-yellowbird-paints-entryway-mural-at-airc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/09\/gallery-leah-yellowbird-paints-entryway-mural-at-airc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery: Leah Yellowbird Paints Entryway Mural at AIRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A new mural has been added to the entryway of Bemidji State University&rsquo;s American Indian Resource Center, a pointillist work by local artist Leah Yellowbird.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&ldquo;Leah has a style that is very unique and makes people want to walk up and touch her work,&rdquo; said Bill Blackwell, Jr., executive director of the center. &ldquo;Her work looks as if the mural has been made with beads. The murals have created a sense of pride for students in the building and a place they feel welcome in. It has also allowed us to showcase the building to potential students and has been received well. The cultural &lsquo;wow&rsquo; factor we set out to create is now on display.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Originally a traditional bead-worker, Yellowbird learned that her beading skills could be translated into paintings, a transition reflected in her intricate pontiallist work. After her first solo exhibition&nbsp;at the American Indian Community Housing Organization in 2013, her work has been exhibited in a variety of prominent spaces, including the Macrostie Art Center, Plains Museum of Art and the Tweed Museum of Art. As&nbsp;the Grand Rapids Arts artist in residence from 2015 until 2016, she maintained a studio that was open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Yellowbird says she draws inspiration from the traditional art forms of her ancestors while adding a modern voice to the imagery, with &ldquo;each dot embodying a moment and a prayer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new mural has been added to the entryway of Bemidji State University&#8217;s American Indian Resource Center, a pointillist work by local artist Leah Yellowbird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galleries","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26142,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26131\/revisions\/26142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}