{"id":137070,"date":"2023-04-03T14:36:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=137070"},"modified":"2023-04-03T14:36:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:36:45","slug":"creating-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/04\/03\/creating-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wright State University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/artsgala\">ArtsGala<\/a>, one of the Dayton region\u2019s most festive and unique arts events, returned to the Creative Arts Center on April 1 with an impressive program that featured student performances in theatre, dance, motion pictures, music and visual arts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">ArtsGala celebrated its 24th year with many special events designed to commemorate the\u00a0occasion, including more than 400 student performers in 12 unique performances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is a premier event in Dayton,\u201d said Gary Schmidt, Ph.D., dean of the Wright State <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/\">College of Liberal Arts<\/a>. \u201cOur students are really talented. They come from the region and from around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">ArtsGala has raised over $3 million in scholarships for Wright State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/fine-and-performing-arts\">fine and performing arts students<\/a> over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hillary Allison, a senior dance major and an ArtsGala Scholarship recipient, said the scholarship demonstrates how generous the community is to the arts. She believes ArtsGala patrons will leave with an appreciation for the talented students at Wright State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI hope they\u2019re reminded of the young artists that are truly here to create beauty for the world,\u201d said Allison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State\u2019s ArtsGala, one of the Dayton region\u2019s most festive and unique arts events, returned to the Creative Arts Center on April 1.  <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/04\/03\/creating-beauty\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":137072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,733,729,2037,4312,4859,725,727,747,715,2082,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-around-campus","category-arts-scene","category-artsgala","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-robert-and-elaine-stein-art-galleries","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137070","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=137070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137080,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137070\/revisions\/137080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}