{"id":10,"date":"2019-04-16T15:02:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parsonart.ca\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2022-05-18T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:32:45","slug":"about-marty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/index.php\/about-marty\/","title":{"rendered":"About Marty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 53%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/martyandtwinkie-667x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/martyandtwinkie-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/martyandtwinkie-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/martyandtwinkie-768x1179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/martyandtwinkie.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-normal-font-size\">Marty Ryan graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY with a degree in Industrial Design. After graduation, she moved to the Columbia Valley, where she was a high school art teacher and counsellor for more than 25 years. She also raised three sons (and has been rewarded with five grandchildren.)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">She had always been a painter, and moved into working with bronze, and then copper, in the 1990s. She is currently busy painting, along with offering workshops in copper etching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Marty collaborated with Columbia Valley ceramicist Jane Doel to create The Embodiment Project, which was exhibited in select spots in BC and Alberta. A series of cast female torsos on poles, The Embodiment Project commemorated the murdered and missing women of Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside, and those of the Highway of Tears in north central BC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Marty spends most of her time in her Parson studio, overlooking her beloved Columbia Valley wetlands, and next to her chicken coop. She lives in her nearby off-the-grid house with her husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marty Ryan graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY with a degree in Industrial Design. After graduation, she moved to the Columbia Valley, where she was a high school art teacher and counsellor for more than 25 years. She also raised three sons (and has been rewarded with five grandchildren.) She had always been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/index.php\/about-marty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Marty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parsonart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}