{"id":3969,"date":"2018-10-26T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:03","slug":"beavers-and-van-aken-bring-botanical-art-to-olin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"Beavers and Van Aken Bring Botanical Art to Olin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Jordan Hanson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new exhibitions presented by artists Leigh Ann Beavers and Sam Van Aken will be opening Friday, Oct. 26 in the Olin and Smoyer galleries. Both exhibitions are botanical, utilizing trees and plants as subjects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beavers\u2019 display in the Olin gallery, titled \u201cInattention Correction (Whitethorn)\u201d is a mixed-media project centered around the whitethorn tree. As the title suggests, the artist encourages viewers to correct their inattention and notice what is there. Beavers currently teaches at Washington and Lee University, and will be holding an artist lecture in the Olin gallery at 6:30 p.m. during the opening reception from 6-8 p.m. on Oct. 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York based artist Sam Van Aken\u2019s display \u201cOpen Orchard\u201d will be held in the Smoyer gallery, where it elaborates on \u201cThe Tree of Forty Fruits\u201d project that currently exists in the Olin courtyard. The tree, singularly grafted with the ability to grow and produce over 40 varieties of stone fruit, will be represented in the new exhibition through botanical drawings and prints of Aken\u2019s \u201cSeed Packet Grafts\u201d collages. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The exhibitions will be on display until Dec. 2. during normal Olin gallery hours (1-4 p.m.).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jordan Hanson The new exhibitions presented by artists Leigh Ann Beavers and Sam Van Aken will be opening Friday, Oct. 26 in the Olin and Smoyer galleries. Both exhibitions are botanical, utilizing trees and plants as subjects. Beavers\u2019 display in the Olin gallery, titled \u201cInattention Correction (Whitethorn)\u201d is a mixed-media project centered around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/LABeavers-Onsite-with-Whitethorn-Kinvara-Co-Clare-Ireland-Copy1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}