{"id":156,"date":"2014-02-14T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2014-06-02T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T12:14:41","slug":"about-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/?page_id=156","title":{"rendered":"About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/valerie-for-Mike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-237\" src=\"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/valerie-for-Mike-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"valerie for Mike\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/valerie-for-Mike-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/valerie-for-Mike.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Valerie Hibbard pours her energy into many projects, from her sculpture studio to teaching, her assistance to growing businesses, charity sewing work to support second amendment rights, and a bit of writing as well.\u00a0 She holds an M.A. in drawing\/sculpture, as well as an NAAP certificate, and has worked as a licensed Chaplain.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Her goal is to create works for commercial areas, such as hotels, business lobbies, restaurants, and medical centers.\u00a0 She prefers to work in large scale, and in recycled materials found as industry cast offs, or sometimes even broken furniture she comes across in her hunting and gathering treks.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She works primarily in exotic woods, but incorporates metals, fused glass from her kiln, and occasionally ceramics.\u00a0 Her work can be found occasionally around town displayed in local coffee shops and restaurants, until she can partner with someone to represent her.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more information, email valerie@plainandpractical.com<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Hibbard pours her energy into many projects, from her sculpture studio to teaching, her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture.plainandpractical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}