{"id":178,"date":"2020-04-01T11:36:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/?p=178"},"modified":"2020-04-01T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:36:29","slug":"featured-artwork-the-cycle-of-life-childhood-adulthood-elderhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/2020\/04\/featured-artwork-the-cycle-of-life-childhood-adulthood-elderhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Artwork: The Cycle of Life: Childhood, Adulthood, Elderhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Artist<\/strong>:\u00a0Opening Minds Through Art artists at The Knolls of Oxford, the Oxford Healthcare Center, and the Memory Cafe at the Oxford Lane Library and Miami students <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Medium<\/strong>:\u00a03D Acrylic on Canvas, Dance and Video <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dimensions<\/strong>: 3 cylinders each 64&#8243; long with 25&#8243;diameter <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artist Statement<\/strong>: We all form social circles. Some stretch these circles to make friends outside the tribe. That&#8217;s what we do in OMA, Opening Minds through Art and Memory Cafes. Miami students, people living with dementia and their care partners sat in a circle to paint thousands of circles. Using bicycle rims, these are hung as three cylinders, each symbolizing a stage of the life cycle: childhood, adulthood, and elderhood. Each cylinder hides a dancer who slithers out to the tune of the Beatles, &#8220;&#8221;Because the world is round.&#8221;&#8221; A video capturing the collaborative process is part of this multimedia artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the dance performance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiamiUniversityArtMuseum\/videos\/1003295510051491\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"838\" height=\"840\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/files\/2020\/04\/5e3458cb7486488f27fa2462_ARTWORK2edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/files\/2020\/04\/5e3458cb7486488f27fa2462_ARTWORK2edited.jpg 838w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/files\/2020\/04\/5e3458cb7486488f27fa2462_ARTWORK2edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/files\/2020\/04\/5e3458cb7486488f27fa2462_ARTWORK2edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/files\/2020\/04\/5e3458cb7486488f27fa2462_ARTWORK2edited-768x770.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Artist:\u00a0Opening Minds Through Art artists at The Knolls of Oxford, the Oxford Healthcare Center, and the Memory Cafe at the Oxford Lane Library and Miami <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/2020\/04\/featured-artwork-the-cycle-of-life-childhood-adulthood-elderhood\/\" title=\"Featured Artwork: The Cycle of Life: Childhood, Adulthood, Elderhood\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2926,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circling-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-sre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}