{"id":20345,"date":"2023-07-11T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/fran-giordano-keeps-frog-and-toad-together-in-downtown-schenectady-mural-project\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T11:45:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:45:25","slug":"fran-giordano-keeps-frog-and-toad-together-in-downtown-schenectady-mural-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/fran-giordano-keeps-frog-and-toad-together-in-downtown-schenectady-mural-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran Giordano keeps Frog and Toad together in downtown Schenectady mural project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Schenectady artist Fran Giordano, who works as a technical assistant in the registrar&#8217;s office at Hudson Valley Community College, is working on a mural that features &#8220;Frog and Toad&#8221; and spans an exterior wall of the Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corp. at 143 State St.<\/p>\n<p>The project celebrates Arnold Lobel (1933-1987), an award-winning children&#8217;s book author and illustrator who grew up in Schenectady. A public art project featuring Lobel&#8217;s work was a longtime goal of Betsy Sandberg, chair of the Kids Art Festival and a board member of the ElectriCity Arts and Entertainment District, who sought grant funding for the mural. Giordano often contributes her talents to the Kids Art Festival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/art\/article\/frog-toad-subject-new-schenectady-mural-18185937.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about the mural project in the July 6 edition of the Times Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_151344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151344\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-151344 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/FrogToad-450x634.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"634\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a92023 Vincent Giordano Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:45:25 +0000 by\u00a0v.giordano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Schenectady artist Fran Giordano, who works as a technical assistant in the registrar&#8217;s office at Hudson Valley Community College,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}