{"id":42,"date":"2019-06-10T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T12:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2021-06-11T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:57:58","slug":"about-the-gallery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/about-the-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"About the gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"csc-default\">\n<div class=\"csc-textpic csc-textpic-intext-left-nowrap csc-textpic-intext-left-nowrap-240\">\n<h1 class=\"csc-textpic-text\" style=\"text-align:left;\">About the Gallery<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The\u00a0<b>Mercer Gallery<\/b>, named in memory of\u00a0<b>Thomas Mercer<\/b>, an MCC student, veteran, and artist, is operated by the Art Faculty of the Visual and Performing Arts (VaPA) Department of Monroe Community College.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The Mercer Gallery\u2019s schedule of exhibitions and cultural events began in November of 1986. The purpose was to meet an instructional need for a department gallery which would present current, challenging work, not readily available in Rochester; another gallery exhibit area in a context exemplifying excellent curatorial and gallery management practices. We envisioned a gallery which would present art and artists, which could be integrated with the work of our curriculum to serve as an instructional model of contemporary art for our students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"c66434\" class=\"csc-default\">\n<div class=\"csc-textpic csc-textpic-intext-right\">\n<div class=\"csc-textpic-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The Mercer Gallery is located in <b><a title=\"Opens internal link in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.monroecc.edu\/about-mcc\/locations-maps\/brighton-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Building 12 on MCC\u2019s Brighton Campus<\/a> (Tel: (585) 292-2021)<\/b> in Rochester, New York. Though the Mercer Gallery is located on a college campus and has enthusiastic attendees from college students and faculty members, its mission is not one of the common campus gallery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Gallery The\u00a0Mercer Gallery, named in memory of\u00a0Thomas Mercer, an MCC student, veteran, and artist, is operated by the Art Faculty of the Visual and Performing Arts (VaPA) Department of Monroe Community College. The Mercer Gallery\u2019s schedule of exhibitions and cultural events began in November of 1986. The purpose was to meet an instructional [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}