{"id":28750,"date":"2014-01-24T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=28750"},"modified":"2014-01-24T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T18:17:29","slug":"la-posada-artist-explore-death-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/la-posada-artist-explore-death-art\/","title":{"rendered":"La Posada artist to explore death through art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28753\" alt=\"Tina Mion\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mion_tina.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/01\/mion_tina.jpg 350w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/01\/mion_tina-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinamion.com\/\">Tina Mion<\/a> will combine a personal and historical perspective about death and dying during a free visual talk, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, at the Cline Library Assembly Hall at NAU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot Dead Yet: Thoughts and Paintings on Death and Dying\u201d is both a serious and humorous look at several topics that Mion will explore through art, including personal loss, the taboo of suicide, why butlers are often murderers, death in the White House\u00a0and what comes next.<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Born in Washington, D.C., Mion spent part of her childhood in an abandoned mortuary. She and her husband, Allan Affeldt, live in\u00a0Winslow, where they restored and own the historic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laposada.org\/\">La Posada Hotel<\/a>, which features a rotating gallery of her large and colorful paintings. In August, the couple <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/legacy-of-la-posada-to-endure-through-bequest-to-nau\/\">committed to bequest<\/a> the hotel and related organizations to the NAU Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Mion has given talks at universities and museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, where her work is on display for the third time.<\/p>\n<p>For information, contact Lisa Martino, (928) 523-8656 or <a href=\"mailto:Lisa.Martino@NAU.edu\">Lisa.Martino@NAU.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/la-posada-artist-explore-death-art\/\">Artist Tina Mion will combine a personal and historical perspective about death and dying during a free visual talk, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, at the Cline Library Assembly Hall at NAU. \u201cNot Dead Yet: Thoughts and Paintings on Death and Dying\u201d is both a serious and humorous look at several topics that&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":28753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}