{"id":141221,"date":"2019-02-28T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=141221"},"modified":"2019-02-28T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:55:10","slug":"mcmillan-receives-vmfa-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2019\/02\/28\/mcmillan-receives-vmfa-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"McMillan Receives VMFA Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_141222\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/j-mcmillan03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141222\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141222\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/j-mcmillan03-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/j-mcmillan03-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/j-mcmillan03-768x922.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/j-mcmillan03-853x1024.jpg 853w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/j-mcmillan03.jpg 978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ceramic sculpture by Jon McMillan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Associate Professor Jon McMillan was recently awarded one of twelve Professional Visual Art Fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for 2019-20.\u00a0 The statewide award, which includes exhibition opportunities and funding for artistic research and creation, is highly competitive, with 753 applicants for 28 fellowships in three categories. Recipients are selected through a blind jury process, with decisions based solely on the artwork submitted. The VMFA Visual Arts Fellowship Program celebrates its 80<sup>th<\/sup>anniversary next year.<\/p>\n<p>For images of this year\u2019s Fellows, visit: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MySV7IOj4uM\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/MySV7IOj4uM.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information on the program and this year\u2019s awards can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmfa.museum\/pressroom\/news\/vmfa-2019-20-fellowship-program-supports-28-student-professional-artists\/\">https:\/\/www.vmfa.museum\/pressroom\/news\/vmfa-2019-20-fellowship-program-supports-28-student-professional-artists\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Jon McMillan was recently awarded one of twelve Professional Visual Art Fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for 2019-20.\u00a0 The statewide award, which includes exhibition opportunities and funding for artistic research and creation, is highly competitive, with 753 applicants for 28 fellowships in three categories. Recipients are selected through a blind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5481,"featured_media":130474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[2171],"class_list":{"0":"post-141221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-notes","8":"tag-jmcmilla","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}