{"id":13026,"date":"2011-04-01T02:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T02:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13026"},"modified":"2011-04-01T02:33:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T02:33:49","slug":"multicultural-artist-and-educator-to-speak-at-uvu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13026","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural Artist and Educator to Speak at UVU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvu.edu\/blogs\/newsroom\/2011\/03\/24\/multicultural-artist-and-educator-to-speak-at-uvu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Multicultural Artist and Educator to Speak at UVU<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Valley University<\/a><br \/>\nOrem, Utah<br \/>\n2011-03-24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jim Rayburn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eighthgeneration.com\/index.php\/content\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Louie Gong<\/a>, a nationally-recognized artist and mixed-heritage advocate, will speak at Utah Valley University on March 31 at 2 p.m. at the Sorensen Student Center, room 206A.<\/p>\n<p>Gong\u2014of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nooksack_(tribe)\" target=\"_blank\">Nooksack<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%E1%B8%B5wx%CC%B1w%C3%BA7mesh\" target=\"_blank\">Squamish<\/a>, Chinese, French and Scottish descent\u2014is known best for his custom-designed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vans\" target=\"_blank\">Vans<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Converse_(shoe_company)\" target=\"_blank\">Converse<\/a> shoes and is a national leader in the discourse about mixed-race identity. He is a self-taught artist whose mash-up of traditional and pop culture influences is resonating with people all over the world. His <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coast_Salish_peoples\" target=\"_blank\">Coast Salish<\/a>-style artwork is especially popular with skateboarders&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;His remarks on March 31 will be centered on the realities of modern society while maintaining one\u2019s cultural heritage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvu.edu\/blogs\/newsroom\/2011\/03\/24\/multicultural-artist-and-educator-to-speak-at-uvu\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multicultural Artist and Educator to Speak at UVU Utah Valley University Orem, Utah 2011-03-24 Jim Rayburn Louie Gong, a nationally-recognized artist and mixed-heritage advocate, will speak at Utah Valley University on March 31 at 2 p.m. at the Sorensen Student Center, room 206A. Gong\u2014of Nooksack, Squamish, Chinese, French and Scottish descent\u2014is known best for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,13,8,3015,20],"tags":[5853,2077,5854],"class_list":["post-13026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-jim-rayburn","tag-louie-gong","tag-utah-valley-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}