{"id":149129,"date":"2024-04-08T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=149129"},"modified":"2024-12-19T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:14:35","slug":"silver-jubilee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/04\/08\/silver-jubilee\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver jubilee"},"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 6 with an impressive program featuring student performances in theatre, dance, motion pictures, music and visual arts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">ArtsGala celebrated its 25th year with many special events designed to commemorate the occasion, including hundreds of student performers.<\/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 almost $4 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\">Miranda Morrissette, a sophomore acting major and an ArtsGala Scholarship recipient, said the scholarship allows her to focus on her work and pursue her passion for acting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s so exciting to get to share what we work on in this building,\u201d said Morrissette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArtsGala celebrated its 25th year with many special events designed to commemorate the occasion, including hundreds of student performers. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/04\/08\/silver-jubilee\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":149133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2037,4312,4859,725,727,747,715,2082,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/149129","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=149129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149140,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149129\/revisions\/149140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}