{"id":14235,"date":"2020-01-04T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/?p=14235"},"modified":"2020-05-04T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:14:10","slug":"multi-media-exhibit-bridgeport-cultural-arts-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/history-center-news\/multi-media-exhibit-bridgeport-cultural-arts-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-media exhibit:  Bridgeport Cultural Arts Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/kiosk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #cc1d1d;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>We Are Artists Every One:\u00a0 <\/b><b>The Art Center in Action, 1970-1986<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The Art Center was far more than a place to learn visual arts, literary arts and music.\u00a0 The Art Center was a place to improve reading skills, get a meal, and gain exposure to burgeoning cultural, artistic, social, and political ideas.\u00a0 By the time of its closing in 1986, the Art Center had offered thousands of hours of art, photography, music and culinary instruction to city youth, adults, and senior citizens.<\/i> Curator Michelle Black Smith<i><\/i><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/kiosk\">click here to visit the exhibit<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0We Are Artists Every One:\u00a0 The Art Center in Action, 1970-1986 The Art Center was far more than a place to learn visual arts, literary arts and music.\u00a0 The Art Center was a place to improve reading skills, get a meal, and gain exposure to burgeoning cultural, artistic, social, and political ideas.\u00a0 By the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-center-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14240,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14235\/revisions\/14240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}