{"366441":{"#nid":"366441","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Arts@Tech Salon Series features Churchill Great-Grandson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Office of the Arts and Poetry@Tech will host the Arts@Tech Salon Series, a new lunchtime speaker series focusing on a variety of arts-related topics, starting Wednesday, January 28 in the Galleries of the Ferst Center for the Arts. \u0026nbsp;The first event in the series features Duncan Sandys, the great-grandson of Winston Churchill, and Rodney Cook, Millennium Gate Museum Founder and Director of the National Monuments Foundation, discussing an exhibition of paintings by Churchill at the Millennium Gate Museum at Atlantic Station titled \u201cThe Art of Diplomacy: Winston Churchill and the Pursuit of Painting.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Salon Series\u0027 inaugural event features Churchill\u0027s paintings and highlights for Georgia Tech students and faculty the importance of developing the total self - through both the academic and the arts - by demonstrating how the iconic figure Winston Churchill explored art - through both his appreciation of and the making of it. Students will walk away not only having learned something about history, but also about the importance of art in our everyday lives,\u0022 states Travis Denton, Curator of the Arts@TECH Salon Series \u0026amp; McEver Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech. Winston Churchill produced over 500 paintings as a relaxing hobby, of which he wrote, \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for painting I could not live. I couldn\u2019t bear the strain of things.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta exhibition of 33 paintings is the largest of Churchill\u2019s work held in America since 1965, and commemorates the 50\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E anniversary of the British statesman\u2019s death.\u0026nbsp; Duncan Sandys now lives in Georgia and will speak about the artwork and his family\u2019s connection to the state, which includes Churchill\u2019s 1932 visit to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Arts@Tech Salon Series\u003C\/strong\u003E is sponsored by the Georgia Tech Office of the Arts and Poetry@Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETickets are free and lunch is included\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u0026nbsp;Tickets can be reserved by phone or in person at the Box Office in the Student Center, 404-894-9600. Seating is limited.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Office of the Arts and Poetry@Tech will host the Arts@Tech Salon Series, a new lunchtime speaker series focusing on a variety of arts-related topics, starting Wednesday, January 28 in the Galleries of the Ferst Center for the Arts. \u0026nbsp;The first event in the series features Duncan Sandys, the great-grandson of Winston Churchill, and Rodney Cook, Millennium Gate Museum Founder and Director of the National Monuments Foundation, discussing an exhibition of paintings by Churchill at the Millennium Gate Museum at Atlantic Station titled \u201cThe Art of Diplomacy: Winston Churchill and the Pursuit of Painting.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Arts@Tech Salon Series features Winston Churchill\u0027s great-grandson Duncan Sandys discussing an exhibition of paintings by Churchill at the Millennium Gate Museum."}],"uid":"27780","created_gmt":"2015-01-21 12:11:27","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:20:34","author":"Stephanie Lee","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-01-28T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-01-28T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-01-28T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-01-28 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-01-28 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-01-28 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"145331","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10034","name":"art history"},{"id":"75831","name":"arts @ tech"},{"id":"1683","name":"history"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"},{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStephanie Lee\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of the Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-9196\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}