{"id":1068,"date":"2013-04-09T20:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T00:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2014-02-14T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T19:56:56","slug":"rex-art-sponsors-the-swan-community-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/rex-art-sponsors-the-swan-community-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Rex Art Sponsors the SWAN Community Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1070\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/happy-artists.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1070\" alt=\"Happy artists\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/happy-artists.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/happy-artists.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/happy-artists-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everyone&#8217;s happy with a brush in her hand!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rex Art was proud to supply the <a title=\"Spoken Soul Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/spokensoulfestival.wix.com\/ssff\" target=\"_blank\">Spoken Soul Festival<\/a> with paints and materials on March 22 for their annual SWAN Community Program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1071\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kids-painting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1071\" alt=\"Kids Painting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kids-painting.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kids-painting.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kids-painting-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everyone was completely absorbed in their artwork.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The SWAN Community Program gives the production team, sponsors and featured artists of the Spoken Soul Festival, a 3 day festival celebrating and supporting women artists, an opportunity to give back to the community by demonstrating to young girls and women empowerment through the arts. This year\u2019s beneficiary was the <a title=\"Little Haiti Cultural Center\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LittleHaitiCulturalCenter\" target=\"_blank\">Little Haiti Cultural Center<\/a>\u2019s Arts Afterschool program. The young artists (k-8), and participating SWAN artists created inspiring and encouraging poetry art to be donated to children affected by cancer throughout the South Florida\u2019s community. Little Haiti Cultural Center&#8217;s mission is to provide a space that brings together people and ideas to promote, showcase and support Afro-Caribbean culture in South Florida.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1069\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/girls-painting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1069\" alt=\"Girls painting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/girls-painting.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/girls-painting.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/girls-painting-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fun was had by all and creativity was flowing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Everyone was thrilled to be creating beautiful pieces of art to bring a smile to a sick child, and hopefully contribute to that child&#8217;s health and wellness. Several SWAN artists volunteered before the event to sketch drawings on 5&#8243; x 8&#8243; canvas boards &#8211; the perfect size for a child to carry around for inspiration. Then the children and artists painted them in vibrant, cheery colors. Here are the results!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1073\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paintings2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073\" title=\"All the Paintings\" alt=\"All the Paintings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paintings2.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paintings2.jpg 402w, https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paintings2-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here are all the paintings. There was a lot of art going on that day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1074\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paintings3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1074\" alt=\"Some great paintings going to children affected with cancer. Hope they bring some cheer!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paintings3.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paintings3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/paintings3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some great paintings going to children affected with cancer. Hope they bring some cheer!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rex Art was proud to supply the Spoken Soul Festival with paints and materials on March 22 for their annual SWAN Community Program. The SWAN &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/rex-art-sponsors-the-swan-community-program\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rex-art-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexart.com\/art-supplies-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}