{"id":6630,"date":"2016-04-17T15:56:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T19:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2017-11-21T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:11:07","slug":"daap-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/6630","title":{"rendered":"DAAP MADE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cSome people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Mark Twain<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DAAP_MADE_invitation-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DAAP_MADE_invitation-1.jpg\"  title=\"DAAP MADE: The Exhibition\" width=\"218\" height=\"260\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"11\" padding-left=\"0\" align=left size-full wp-image-5713\" \/><\/a>Yesterday I finished participating in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maltonartgallery.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Malton Gallery\u2019s <strong><em>DAAP MADE: The Exhibition<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a contemporary showcase for those with a connection to the University of Cincinnati\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/daap.uc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Collage of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning<\/a>. I was mildly astonished to have two large collage artworks accepted for display. It\u2019s been awhile since I had something featured in Cincinnati, having left the school over 40 years ago with a degree and mixed emotions. My destination was Chicago, to accept a graphic design position, and I was not inclined to look back. It had been a rigorous program that left scars on my creative self, but it fully prepared me for the demands of becoming an independent professional.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, everything worked out just fine.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/938\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dixon_Diamonds_crop.jpg\" title=\"Diamonds in the Rough (detail) ~ J A Dixon\" alt=\"Diamonds in the Rough (detail) ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"206\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dixon_Diamonds_crop.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dixon_Diamonds_crop-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a> &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/4760\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dixon_MTLodge_crop.jpg\" title=\"Matthew\u2019s Touchonic Lodge (detail) ~ J A Dixon\" alt=\"Matthew\u2019s Touchonic Lodge (detail) ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"206\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dixon_MTLodge_crop.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dixon_MTLodge_crop-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 202px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><em>details from<br \/>\n<strong>Diamonds in the Rough<\/strong> and <strong>Matthew\u2019s Touchonic Lodge<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\ntwo collage paintings by J A Dixon<br \/>\n(click each for more information)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSome people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,8,18,111,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8798,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions\/8798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}