{"id":1826,"date":"2016-12-08T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2016-12-08T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:23:11","slug":"winter-an-active-time-for-williston-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/2016\/12\/08\/winter-an-active-time-for-williston-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter an Active Time for Williston Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1833\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2016\/12\/IMG_2394.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1833 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2016\/12\/IMG_2394-e1481225328568-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Students are creating compelling abstract black and white compositions.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2016\/12\/IMG_2394-e1481225328568-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2016\/12\/IMG_2394-e1481225328568-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2016\/12\/IMG_2394-e1481225328568.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students are creating compelling abstract black and white compositions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> In this interstitial\u00a0season\u00a0when the fall play and concerts are complete and spring shows are a long way off, what&#8217;s going on in the the arts at Williston?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> The arts are bustling in this &#8220;off&#8221; season!<\/p>\n<p>Visual and Performing Arts Department Head Natania Hume notes that there is a buzz of activity right now in the arts. Documentary photo students recently took a\u00a0field trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/easthamptoncityarts.com\/map\" target=\"_blank\">MAP Gallery<\/a> to meet with photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/ellerimages.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracey Eller<\/a>. The Caterwaulers, Williston&#8217;s male concert chorus, now has a critical mass of 30 voices and with all those basses can hit the low notes (the New Grove Dictionary of Opera defines the bass range as the E below middle C to the E above middle C). Winter dance revs up with student choreographers creating compelling and relevant work, including one celebrating the legacy of Black\u00a0dancers and choreographers.\u00a0And visual artists are hard at work starting with compositions in black and white.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This in-between season is a ripe one for making\u00a0art at Williston,&#8221; said Ms. Hume. &#8220;I always think of winter as a time when artists go inward and hunker down to create in earnest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1830\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2016\/12\/bass-singing-group2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1830 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2016\/12\/bass-singing-group2.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2016\/12\/bass-singing-group2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2016\/12\/bass-singing-group2-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2016\/12\/bass-singing-group2-250x88.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Caterwaulers are ready to sing low.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In this interstitial\u00a0season\u00a0when the fall play and concerts are complete and spring shows are a long way off, what&#8217;s going on in the the arts at Williston? Answer: The arts are bustling in this &#8220;off&#8221; season! Visual and Performing Arts Department Head Natania Hume notes that there is a buzz of activity right now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/2016\/12\/08\/winter-an-active-time-for-williston-arts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter an Active Time for Williston Arts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-news","category-student-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}