{"id":3654,"date":"2016-11-04T19:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T19:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/?page_id=3654"},"modified":"2017-03-28T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:26:08","slug":"1996-spring-art-show-francis-nnaggenda","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/?page_id=3654","title":{"rendered":"1996 Spring Art Show, Francis Nnaggenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Promega Art Showcase included fifty paintings from Ugandan artist, Francis Nnaggenda. \u00a0In 1995, Daniel Swadener met with Nnaggenda in East Africa. \u00a0Swadener located a private garage in Nairobi, Kenya, where Nnaggenda had been storing his art. The entire collection was purchased from Nnaggenda and brought to the U.S. and the first art showcase was planned. \u00a0Nnaggenda arrived in Madison in 1995 and selected a walnut tree which he then carved into the &#8216;Mother and Child&#8217; sculpture that is still displayed in the BTC atrium today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mother-with-child-wooden-sculpture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3655\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mother-with-child-wooden-sculpture.png\" alt=\"Mother with child wooden sculpture\" width=\"1179\" height=\"1757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mother-with-child-wooden-sculpture.png 1179w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mother-with-child-wooden-sculpture-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mother-with-child-wooden-sculpture-768x1145.png 768w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mother-with-child-wooden-sculpture-687x1024.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1179px) 100vw, 1179px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article-pg-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3656\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article-pg-2.png\" alt=\"Nnaggenda article pg 2\" width=\"1894\" height=\"1591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article-pg-2.png 1894w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article-pg-2-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article-pg-2-768x645.png 768w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article-pg-2-1024x860.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1894px) 100vw, 1894px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-bio.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3657\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-bio.png\" alt=\"Nnaggenda bio\" width=\"2454\" height=\"1252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-bio.png 2454w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-bio-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-bio-768x392.png 768w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-bio-1024x522.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2454px) 100vw, 2454px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3658\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article.png\" alt=\"Nnaggenda article\" width=\"1557\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article.png 1557w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-article-1024x568.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1557px) 100vw, 1557px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-cover-image-of-mailer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3659\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-cover-image-of-mailer.png\" alt=\"Nnaggenda cover image of mailer\" width=\"1107\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-cover-image-of-mailer.png 1107w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-cover-image-of-mailer-300x259.png 300w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-cover-image-of-mailer-768x663.png 768w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nnaggenda-cover-image-of-mailer-1024x883.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1107px) 100vw, 1107px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Promega Art Showcase included fifty paintings from Ugandan artist, Francis Nnaggenda. \u00a0In 1995, Daniel Swadener met with Nnaggenda in East Africa. \u00a0Swadener located a private garage in Nairobi, Kenya, where Nnaggenda had been storing his art. The entire collection was purchased from Nnaggenda and brought to the U.S. and the first art showcase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3654","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}