{"id":50527,"date":"2018-02-22T10:18:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=50527"},"modified":"2018-02-22T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:18:22","slug":"immersive-honors-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/immersive-honors-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Immersive honors class gives students once-in-a-lifetime experience (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<strong>Jerry Anderfuren<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>NAU-TV<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Not many people can say they learned a particular skill from a world-renowned expert. But thanks to HON240, Northern Arizona University students can.<\/p>\n<p>The class offers honors students the chance to improve a particular skill by learning from an artist-in-residence. <a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/honors-artist-in-residence-program\/\">The program, which started in 2012 with painter <strong>Bruce Aiken,<\/strong> recently expanded<\/a> to include painter\u00a0<strong>Shonto Begay<\/strong>, photographer\u00a0<strong>Dawn Kish<\/strong>\u00a0and writer\u00a0<strong>Kevin Fedarko,<\/strong> who take students out in the field to build on particular skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nau-tv.com\/\">NAU-TV<\/a> recently joined Aiken and his students in the Grand Canyon as they tried to capture the beauty of the national park on canvas.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Creative World - I Suggest You Start Painting\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/It-w24Z28RY?start=51&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/immersive-honors-class\/\">By\u00a0Jerry Anderfuren NAU-TV Not many people can say they learned a particular skill from a world-renowned expert. But thanks to HON240, Northern Arizona University students can. The class offers honors students the chance to improve a particular skill by learning from an artist-in-residence. The program, which started in 2012 with painter Bruce Aiken, recently expanded&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":50529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50527","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}