{"id":24717,"date":"2020-05-24T23:36:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T23:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24717"},"modified":"2020-05-24T23:36:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T23:36:48","slug":"oxfordshire-artweeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24717","title":{"rendered":"Oxfordshire Artweeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052207.jpg\" alt=\"Oxfordshire Artweeks\" \/><br \/>\nWe are during the time when we would normally be able to go visiting studios for Oxfordshire Artweeks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052206.jpg\" alt=\"Oxfordshire Artweeks\" \/><br \/>\nPeople are painting and creating more art than usual and showing it from windows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artweeks.org\/\">Oxfordshire Artweeks<\/a> has gone virtual this year, and there are a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artweeks.org\/festival\/video\">virtual tours<\/a> showing workshops or themed pictures with background music.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052202.jpg\" alt=\"Oxfordshire Artweeks\" \/><br \/>\nGalleries are closed during coronavirus (COVID-19) but there are pictures that might have appeared at galleries online. In Abingdon the members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artweeks.org\/festival\/2020\/abbey-group\">Abbey Group<\/a>, including Dougie Simpson, have pictures online. <\/p>\n<p>The Oxford Mail has a feature on artists who have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/leisure\/18457026.coronavirus-inspires-artweeks-oxfordshire-creativity\/\">inspired by&nbsp;Coronavirus, isolation and NHS heroes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Channel 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/graysons-art-club\">&#8220;Grayson\u2019s Art Club&#8221;<\/a>, showcases art made by the British public trapped at home. Some of the 10,000+ pieces submitted were from Abingdon. Last week the theme was <em>&#8216;View from My Window<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052403.jpg\" alt=\"Oxfordshire Artweeks\" \/><br \/>\nThis is a photo of the view from our window this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are during the time when we would normally be able to go visiting studios for Oxfordshire Artweeks. People are painting and creating more art than usual and showing it from windows. Oxfordshire Artweeks has gone virtual this year, and there are a series of virtual tours showing workshops or themed pictures with background music. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}