{"id":8522,"date":"2011-10-20T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=8522"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:42:20","slug":"tom-hanks-praises-wright-states-celia-and-arts-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/10\/20\/tom-hanks-praises-wright-states-celia-and-arts-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks praises Wright State arts programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks, who has starred in blockbuster films such as <em>Forrest Gump, Apollo 13<\/em> and <em>Saving Private Ryan<\/em>, gave a glowing endorsement of Wright State\u2019s arts programs during a news conference Oct. 20 to announce that the university&#8217;s Collaborative Education, Leadership and Innovation in the Arts (CELIA) center has been designated an Ohio Center of Excellence for the arts.<\/p>\n<p>A taped video of Hanks was played during the news conference at Wright State\u2019s Student Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWright State is training the artists of tomorrow. I know because I\u2019ve worked with some of Wright State\u2019s alumni, and they\u2019re among the best in their fields,\u201d Hanks said. \u201cWright State not only has one of the most outstanding arts programs in Ohio, but one of the best in the entire nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanks is also a producer, writer and director. U.S. domestic box office totals for his films exceed $4 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/10\/20\/wright-state-recognized-as-ohio-center-of-excellence\/\">Click here to read more about CELIA&#8217;s recognition as an Ohio Center of Excellence.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks, who has starred in . . . <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/10\/20\/tom-hanks-praises-wright-states-celia-and-arts-programs\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":8534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,725,727,747,715,719,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-special-categories","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9189,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions\/9189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}