{"id":13077,"date":"2021-02-06T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/?p=13077"},"modified":"2021-02-06T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T19:54:09","slug":"2018-interview-with-rackstraw-downes-at-colby-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/2018-interview-with-rackstraw-downes-at-colby-college\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Interview with Rackstraw Downes at Colby College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eYd2HYjmgK4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive 2018 interview with Rackstraw Downes and Sharon Corwin, chief curator, and director of Maine&#8217;s Colby College Museum of Art. The interview discusses his evolution, practice, and insights as one of our greatest living contemporary landscape painters. This talk includes a concurrent slide show with some fascinating examples of lesser-known early work. <\/p>\n<p>Colby Museum presented artist Rackstraw Downes with the 2018 Cummings Award for Artistic Excellence. On July 14, 2018, as part of the Museum&#8217;s annual summer luncheon, Sharon Corwin, the Museum&#8217;s Carolyn Muzzy Director, and Chief Curator, sat down with Rackstraw Downes to discuss the creation process of his works, his career trajectory, and his connections to Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive 2018 interview with Rackstraw Downes and Sharon Corwin, chief curator, and director of Maine&#8217;s Colby College Museum of Art. The interview discusses his evolution, practice, and insights as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/2018-interview-with-rackstraw-downes-at-colby-college\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-contemporary-realism","category-landscape-painting","category-masters-of-perceptual-painting","category-videos","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13081,"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions\/13081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}