{"id":116417,"date":"2020-12-10T12:07:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=116417"},"modified":"2020-12-10T12:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:07:28","slug":"art-on-the-block-mural-dedicated-at-robles-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=116417","title":{"rendered":"ART ON THE BLOCK MURAL DEDICATED AT ROBLES PARK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ART ON THE BLOCK MURAL DEDICATED AT ROBLES PARK <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> I. C. H. HOUSE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last month, Mayor Jane Castor, Chief Brian Dugan and the artist, Ya Levy La\u2019Ford dedicated a new mural at Robles Park. La\u2019Ford is a professor, installation artist, and muralist. The first generation American moves between her Jamaican heritage and vulnerable communities to try to find a universal language through her art. La\u2019Ford maintains her studio practice in St. Petersburg, Washington, DC, and New York\u00a0\u00a0(<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yalaford.com\/\">www.yalaford.com<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The R.I.C.H. House, supported by the Tampa Police Department and RISE Tampa, Police Foundation, works to enhance neighborhood safety through collaboration between police and residents in high-crime areas. Among those who attended the dedication along with a group of children were: l<\/strong><strong>eft to right<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>Ocea Wynn<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>Administrator of Neighborhood and Community Empowerment<\/strong><strong>; <\/strong><strong>Sherisha Hills<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>Director of Parks &amp; Recreation<\/strong><strong>; <\/strong><strong>Ya La\u2019Ford<\/strong><strong>, the<\/strong><strong> Artist<\/strong><strong>; Tampa Mayor <\/strong><strong>Jane Castor<\/strong><strong>; and<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 Edwin Galvin<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>MPO<\/strong><strong>. (Photograph courtesy City of Tampa)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ART ON THE BLOCK MURAL DEDICATED AT ROBLES PARK I. C. H. HOUSE \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last month, Mayor Jane Castor, Chief Brian Dugan and the artist, Ya Levy La\u2019Ford dedicated a new mural at Robles Park. La\u2019Ford is a professor, installation artist, and muralist. The first generation American moves between her Jamaican heritage and vulnerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":116421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}