{"646854":{"#nid":"646854","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Artist Fabian Williams to create Georgia Tech mural ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta artist Fabian Williams is creating a mural along Tech Walkway this spring that reflects the diverse vibrancy of the Georgia Tech community. The effort to bring Williams to campus was conceived and led by Sinet Adous, a fourth-year International Affairs major, whose work for the past two years to bring Williams to campus includes finding project funding and gathering student input for what the community would like to see represented in the mural through campus-wide surveys.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdous said she hopes the mural will be a reflection of the diversity and spirit of Georgia Tech, reinvigorating students\u0026rsquo; love and excitement for Georgia Tech after a year that has felt very distanced. The mural will be painted on the low brick wall in front of the Skiles building across from the Starbucks in Clough.\u0026nbsp; She said students are eager to see more art like this on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdous first got the idea for an on-campus mural after working with Living Walls Atlanta, an organization that creates public art displays across the metro area, during her second year at Tech. She then met with Georgia Tech Arts, obtained approval for the project from Georgia Tech administration and various departments, and secured funding from the Mental Health Joint Allocation Committee in the Student Government Association.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe and a student design group, which includes Lisa Medford, Alivia Rukmana, Sara Pierson, Adam Lederer, and Jathan Caldwell, have met with the artist this year to present the results of the student surveys and bring together ideas for the piece.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFabian Williams has created many well-known murals across the city of Atlanta, including murals that feature iconic civil right figures such as Hosea Williams, Coretta Scott King, Colin Kaepernick, and many others.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Atlanta artist Fabian Williams is creating a mural along Tech Walkway this spring that reflects the diverse vibrancy of the Georgia Tech community. "}],"uid":"34970","created_gmt":"2021-04-23 21:27:18","changed_gmt":"2021-04-23 21:54:55","author":"Elizabeth Geiger","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"646853":{"id":"646853","type":"image","title":"Fabian WIlliams","body":null,"created":"1619213100","gmt_created":"2021-04-23 21:25:00","changed":"1619213100","gmt_changed":"2021-04-23 21:25:00","alt":"A man seen from the chest up, his face in three quarter profile looking at the camera, his hand under his chin, the light shining from off camera. He is wearing a black t shirt and has a serious look on his face. Behind him is a work of art in bold colors.","file":{"fid":"245558","name":"fabian williams.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fabian%20williams.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fabian%20williams.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":169458,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/fabian%20williams.jpg?itok=960wA2MT"}}},"media_ids":["646853"],"groups":[{"id":"145331","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"184403","name":"mural"},{"id":"125","name":"art"},{"id":"1564","name":"community"},{"id":"167058","name":"Student"},{"id":"736","name":"diversity"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Arts\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["info@arts.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}