{"id":122505,"date":"2022-04-11T14:51:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=122505"},"modified":"2022-08-18T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T16:32:32","slug":"volcano-of-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/04\/11\/volcano-of-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcano of talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a two-year hiatus from in-person performances, Wright State University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/artsgala\">annual ArtsGala<\/a> is back!<\/p>\n<p>The Dayton region\u2019s most festive and unique arts event returned to the Creative Arts Center on April 9\u00a0 with an impressive program that featured student performances in theatre, dance, motion pictures, music and visual arts. ArtsGala celebrated its 23rd year with many special events designed to commemorate the occasion, including more than 450 student performers in 13 unique performances.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s event raised about $200,000 for Wright State arts students. All proceeds go toward scholarships for Wright State\u2019s outstanding fine and performing arts students.\u00a0The event has raised over $3 million for arts scholarships over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally we\u2019re back after three years of waiting to unleash this volcano of talent and energy,\u201d said Joe Deer, artistic director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/theatre-dance-and-motion-pictures\">Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ArtsGala is regarded as one of the area\u2019s premier arts events, drawing several hundred patrons each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a two-year hiatus from in-person performances, Wright State University\u2019s annual ArtsGala is back! <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/04\/11\/volcano-of-talent\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":122509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,2037,4312,4859,2040,725,727,747,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-arts-scene","category-artsgala","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-giving","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122622,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122505\/revisions\/122622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}