{"id":7430,"date":"2015-11-12T15:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=7430"},"modified":"2015-11-12T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:41:20","slug":"art-department-has-designs-on-longfellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/7430","title":{"rendered":"Art Department has designs on Longfellow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Longfellow Elementary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Jenni Beaver–Longfellow Elementary School was recently acquired by Morningside College, and the decision wasn\u2019t spur-of-the-moment.<\/p>\n

Provost Bill Deeds says, \u201cWe became aware that Longfellow might be available for sale a long time ago. We\u2019ve used it for temporary things in the meantime. So we\u2019ve always been interested in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the building itself will be of use to Morningside for now, Deeds says it isn\u2019t the brick and concrete that holds value. \u201cFrom a college point of view it\u2019s more valuable to us from a piece of land point of view and not so much the building\u2026 we also didn\u2019t want a bad neighbor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead of letting the building sit empty, Morningside acquired it for various uses. Deeds says several queries have come across his desk. The marching band is interested and the track and field team may be taking over some space as well. However, it\u2019s Morningside\u2019s art department that has nailed down a use for five of the classrooms.<\/p>\n

Professor Terri McGaffin says the rooms will allow the department to expand in ways the Annex never did. \u201cWhen students in our photography program or class want a certain atmosphere for their photographs, it\u2019s good for them to have control of the light.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Annex has been a good place for taking photos, the rooms are too small for students to work in groups and achieve the perfect environment for their shots. Longfellow will allow spaces for white-walled and black-walled photography studios. It will also have space for motion photography, product photography, and bonus spaces for laying matte and preparing photos for student presentations.<\/p>\n

\u201cLongfellow will allow students to experiment and work together and create,\u201d said McGaffin.<\/p>\n

While Morningside hasn\u2019t figured out what will happen to Longfellow for the long-term, it will be a happy home for art students to create anything they desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jenni Beaver–Longfellow Elementary School was recently acquired by Morningside College, and the decision wasn\u2019t spur-of-the-moment. Provost Bill Deeds says, \u201cWe became aware that Longfellow might be available for sale a long time ago. We\u2019ve used it for temporary things in the meantime. So we\u2019ve always been interested in it.\u201d While the building itself will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}