{"id":20909,"date":"2019-06-04T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=20909"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:32:45","slug":"las-vegas-portraits-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/las-vegas-portraits-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Portraits Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p><strong>Las Vegas Portraits Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='avia_image' src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/VegasProject4.jpeg' alt='' title='VegasProject4' height=\"1125\" width=\"1500\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_comments_list  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\">When Wanda Watson Heffelfinger &#8217;76* heard that her nieces, Kortney Struempf and Ellen Abramo, were coordinating the creation of portraits of every victim of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting and putting together a showing, she knew that she had to participate \u2014 and she volunteered fellow artist and alum Elizabeth Lander Purcell \u201976*.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Artists all over the world submitted their work for consideration, including Heffelfinger and Purcell. When accepted, each artist was given the name and photo of a victim to transform into a portrait in their own style. Heffelfinger painted the portrait of John Joseph Phippen in acrylic, and Purcell the portrait of Sandra Lee Casey in watercolor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere were different levels of artistry, but every style was different,\u201d Heffelfinger said. \u201cAnd it was all done from the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Once all the portraits were complete, a showing was held in the Rotunda Gallery of the Clark County Government Center, Nevada, which ran from Sept. 17\u2013Oct. 19, 2018. Families of the victims received the portraits after the showing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThere were just so many different styles just like there were so many different personalities that were affected by this,\u201d Purcell added, \u201cbut you put them all together in this one showing, and it was really beautiful to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='av-buildercomment   '><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[243,1343,1770,2062,2278,2591,2790],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","tag-art","tag-gallery","tag-las-vegas","tag-nevada","tag-portraits","tag-shooting-victims","tag-summer-2019-lifelong-tigers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/VegasProject4.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20909"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}