{"id":2430,"date":"2021-03-12T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/?page_id=2430"},"modified":"2021-03-23T04:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:32:35","slug":"aei-history-and-timeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/aei-history-and-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#038;EI History and Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slider2\/00logo-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2390\" style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slider2\/00logo-scaled-e1615574286891.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slider2\/00logo-scaled-e1615574286891.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slider2\/00logo-scaled-e1615574286891-300x163.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slider2\/00logo-scaled-e1615574286891-1024x558.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slider2\/00logo-scaled-e1615574286891-768x419.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slider2\/00logo-scaled-e1615574286891-1536x837.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slider2\/00logo-scaled-e1615574286891-2048x1116.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Art &amp; Environment Initiative (A&amp;EI) uses art to promote local and regional revitalization, community development, and beautification. Working with community clients, partners, stakeholders, and residents, opportunities for arts-based development, and the creation of public art, are identified, refined, and put into action. Numerous multi-year projects have been completed since 1997, under the direction of artist Amara Geffen. As founder and director of A&amp;EI, Amara\u2019s practice is collaborative and emphasize the transformation of place with focus on environmental and community-focused public art. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-A_EI-Timeline.pdf\">A history and timeline can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Collectively, Amara\u2019s A&amp;EI projects articulate a public art trail that extends from the Interstate 79 exit into Meadville, through Vernon Township and into the City of Meadville. Often following the Mill Run, a historically important stream meandering through the city. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/meadvilles-urban-art-trail\/\">A visual tour through this public art trail can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From I79, visitors can also travel west into Conneaut Lake to visit Fireman\u2019s Beach, the site of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/conneaut-lake\/\">NEA\/Our Town project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href='https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/public-art-practice\/' class='small-button smallsilver'>&lt;<\/a> <a href='https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/arc-community-greenspace-bloom-where-youre-planted-mural\/' class='small-button smallsilver'>&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art &amp; Environment Initiative (A&amp;EI) uses art to promote local and regional revitalization, community development, and beautification. Working with community clients, partners, stakeholders, and residents, opportunities for arts-based development, and the creation of public art, are identified, refined, and put into action. Numerous multi-year projects have been completed since 1997, under the direction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2430","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2430\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amarageffenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}