{"id":6956,"date":"2022-02-28T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=6956"},"modified":"2022-02-28T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T21:00:35","slug":"celebrating-our-creative-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2022\/02\/28\/celebrating-our-creative-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating our creative community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-1-crop-scaled-e1646074373953.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-1-crop-scaled-e1646074566519-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Luis Hermano Bezerra, winner of the 2022 Sinquefield Composition Prize.\" class=\"wp-image-6957\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7033333333333334;width:202px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-1-crop-scaled-e1646074566519-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-1-crop-scaled-e1646074566519-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-1-crop-scaled-e1646074566519-768x1094.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-1-crop-scaled-e1646074566519-1078x1536.jpg 1078w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-1-crop-scaled-e1646074566519-1437x2048.jpg 1437w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-1-crop-scaled-e1646074566519.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Luis Hermano Bezerra, winner of the 2022 Sinquefield Composition Prize.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday evening, I attended the Chancellor\u2019s Arts Showcase \u2014 an annual event where the best of Tiger creativity is on full display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the highlights was \u201cEchoes,\u201d a piece by 2022 Sinquefield Composition Prize winner Luis Hermano Bezerra and performed by MU\u2019s Wind Ensemble. The showcase also featured groundbreaking pieces from many fields, including theatre, architecture and the visual arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-2-crop-scaled-e1646074594200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-2-crop-scaled-e1646074594200-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of President Choi giving a standing ovation.\" class=\"wp-image-6958\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1406844106463878;width:242px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-2-crop-scaled-e1646074594200-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-2-crop-scaled-e1646074594200-1024x899.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-2-crop-scaled-e1646074594200-768x674.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-2-crop-scaled-e1646074594200-1536x1348.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Chancellors_Arts-2-crop-scaled-e1646074594200-2048x1798.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Choi and his wife, Suzanne, give a standing ovation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was great to see our students\u2019 work at the historic Missouri Theatre. Creative excellence is a vital part of how we discover new ways forward and better understand our world. I enjoyed sharing in their vision and passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday evening, I attended the Chancellor\u2019s Arts Showcase \u2014 an annual event where the best of Tiger creativity is on full display. Among the highlights was \u201cEchoes,\u201d a piece by 2022 Sinquefield Composition Prize winner Luis Hermano Bezerra and performed by MU\u2019s Wind Ensemble. The showcase also featured groundbreaking pieces from many fields, including theatre, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}