{"id":6219,"date":"2016-10-20T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2016-10-20T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T17:23:31","slug":"freels-newhall-among-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/2016\/10\/20\/freels-newhall-among-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Freels &amp; Newhall among Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Freels, University of Akron Press, and Jamie Newhall, Instructional Services, are part of a group who are among 33 finalists for the Knight Arts Challenge who are eligible for a share of $1 million.\u00a0 Other members of the group are:\u00a0 Kathleen Endres (UA School of Communication), Chris Keppler (WZIP), Judy James (Special Collections Division, Akron-Summit County Public Library), Heather Pollock (Senior Lecturer, Honors\/ Anthropology &amp; Classical Studies), Fred Endres (Kent State), and David Baker (UA Institute of Human Science and Culture).\u00a0 The supporting institutions were: ASCP Library, WZIP, and the Institute.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Knight Foundation website, the purpose of the challenge is to fund \u201cthe best ideas that engage and enrich Akron through the arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group proposed &#8220;to capture and celebrate Akron stories through a mobile kiosk that travels to neighborhoods, records people\u2019s histories and stories, and edits them for the public and a radio show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Knight Foundation will announce the winners on Oct. 26 at an event at the Akron Civic Theatre.\u00a0 For more information go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightfoundation.org\/press\/releases\/knight-foundation-names-33-finalists-knight-arts-challenge-akron\">http:\/\/www.knightfoundation.org\/press\/releases\/knight-foundation-names-33-finalists-knight-arts-challenge-akron<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Freels, University of Akron Press, and Jamie Newhall, Instructional Services, are part of a group who are among 33 finalists for the Knight Arts Challenge who are eligible for a share of $1 million.\u00a0 Other members of the group are:\u00a0 Kathleen Endres (UA School of Communication), Chris Keppler (WZIP), Judy James (Special Collections Division, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1846,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38746,22439,57767],"tags":[32982],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-professional-development","category-university-press","tag-university-libraries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1846"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}