
{"id":7114,"date":"2009-09-18T07:33:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T15:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2009-09-18T07:33:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T15:33:47","slug":"letter-shelton-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/09\/18\/letter-shelton-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Shelton remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We lost an important and influential member of our community when Karen Shelton died recently. Karen, a painter, conceived of and spearheaded the creation of the 2ndFriday Artwalk, which has become a favored institution here in Carrboro and in Chapel Hill \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and for that alone, we are all indebted to her. For years, Karen also owned and ran the Sizl Gallery. There, she created a popular venue for local artists to show and sell their work, sometimes even attracting national media attention.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Helen and I had the privilege of meeting Karen a few years back and will always remember her for her talent, her passion and her commitment to all of us. We will miss her emails with news of her latest paintings and will certainly miss knowing that she is out and about, advocating for art and for our community.<br \/>\nJesse Kalisher<\/p>\n<p>President, Carrboro Merchants\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Association<br \/>\nOwner, Jesse Kalisher Gallery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost an important and influential member of our community when Karen Shelton died recently. Karen, a painter, conceived of and spearheaded the creation of the 2ndFriday Artwalk, which has become a favored institution here in Carrboro and in Chapel Hill \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and for that alone, we are all indebted to her. For years, Karen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7116,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}