{"id":8319,"date":"2015-02-20T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=8319"},"modified":"2021-09-23T17:44:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:44:35","slug":"freedom-quilt-stained-glass-art-exhibit-and-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2015\/02\/20\/freedom-quilt-stained-glass-art-exhibit-and-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Quilt Stained Glass Art Exhibit and Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/02\/002-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8320\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/02\/002-2-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"002-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/02\/002-2-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/02\/002-2-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/02\/002-2-460x300.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"title\">Honoring and celebrating Black History Month, The University of Scranton, in collaboration with The Center for Anti-slavery Studies, is pleased to welcome the Glass Artisans Chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen to the Library\u2019s 5<sup>th<\/sup> floor Heritage Room. \u00a0The Glass Artisans will share their creative process in designing an exhibit titled: The History of the Freedom Quilts and the Underground Railroad in Northeast Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Students, faculty, staff, along with Scranton area residents, are invited to a lecture\/reception\/book-signing on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 from 5:00 p.m. \u2013 6:30 p.m.\u00a0Sherman and Cindy Wooden, founders of the Center for Anti-Slavery Studies will lead us with a lecture along with Dr. Pedro Anes of the Glass Artisans who will explain their creative process in designing the spectacular stained-glass \u201cFreedom Quilt\u201d Art Exhibit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bodytext\">\n<p>This project is supported by a Lackawanna County Community Arts and Culture Grant, a program of the Lackawanna County Commissioners Corey D. O\u2019Brien, Jim Wansacz and Patrick O\u2019Malley. The event is hosted by The Office of Equity and Diversity, Education for Justice, The Jesuit Center, Office of Community and Government Relations,\u00a0Peace and Justice and the History Departments of The University of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit is on display in the Library&#8217;s Heritage Room until Wednesday, February 25, and the evening lecture will be held in the Heritage Room on Tuesday, February 24 from 5:00 to 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the\u00a0Office of Equity &amp; Diversity,\u00a0570-941-6645<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoring and celebrating Black History Month, The University of Scranton, in collaboration with The Center for Anti-slavery Studies, is pleased to welcome the Glass Artisans Chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen to the Library\u2019s 5th floor Heritage Room. \u00a0The Glass Artisans will share their creative process in designing an exhibit titled: The History of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":8320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Experience the history of freedom quilts and the underground railroad in NEPA!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,749,780,157,182,228],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-art","tag-black-history-month","tag-events","tag-exhibit","tag-free","tag-heritage-room"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/02\/002-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8322,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions\/8322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}