{"id":510,"date":"2009-09-14T14:12:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T18:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2009-09-14T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T18:12:31","slug":"a-celebration-of-anita-riggio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/09\/14\/a-celebration-of-anita-riggio\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration of Anita Riggio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_514\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-514\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/rosie_color_forblog2.jpg?w=297\" alt=\"Anita Riggio, \u201cSmack Dab in the Middle\u201d(\u00a9 Putnam, 2002). Used with permission. \" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/09\/rosie_color_forblog2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/09\/rosie_color_forblog2-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anita Riggio, \u201cSmack Dab in the Middle\u201d(\u00a9 Putnam, 2002). Used with permission. <\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>A Celebration of Anita Riggio<\/em> is the inaugural exhibit in the new Roger L. Crossgrove Exhibit Series, honoring Emeritus Professor of Art Roger Crossgrove. Roger has been a highly visible and active participant in Connecticut\u2019s arts community for many years, a long-standing member of the Libraries\u2019 Exhibitions Committee and a generous donor to the UConn Libraries. The series will focus on exhibits that feature the work of his former students and current colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit will be in the Dodd Center&#8217;s gallery from Oct. 19 through Dec. 18, 2009.\u00a0\u00a0Anita Riggio is the author of a number of children\u2019s books and the illustrator of many more for other authors. In addition to working as an illustrator for the Hartford Courant, Riggio has served as a courtroom artist for WVIT, a teacher at the American School for the Deaf, and is currently on the faculty of Lesley University\u2019s graduate Creative Writing Program. She recently adapted her 1994 work, <em>Beware the Brindlebeast<\/em>, for the National Theatre of the Deaf \u2019s Little Theatre of the Deaf 2007-2008 tour. \u00a0For more information about her, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anitariggio.com\/\">www.anitariggio.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us for a reception for all of the exhibitors on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 from 2pm-4pm.\u00a0 For information on other exhibits, please see\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uconn.edu\/about\/exhibits\/future\/\">http:\/\/www.lib.uconn.edu\/about\/exhibits\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Celebration of Anita Riggio is the inaugural exhibit in the new Roger L. Crossgrove Exhibit Series, honoring Emeritus Professor of Art Roger Crossgrove. Roger has been a highly visible and active participant in Connecticut\u2019s arts community for many years, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/09\/14\/a-celebration-of-anita-riggio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}