{"id":13224,"date":"2012-03-05T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13224"},"modified":"2012-03-05T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:42:29","slug":"museum-director-has-talent-and-love-for-art-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13224","title":{"rendered":"Museum Director Has Talent And Love For Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY GWEN HAYES<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sentinel Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle Shelley-Moseley<\/strong> is the new face at the Tampa Museum of Art in downtown Tampa. She\u2019s the Museum Educator in the Programming Department.<\/p>\n<p>That title entails developing exhibition-related educational materials for the public, teachers, students and the everyday audience. This position also includes working with various community groups on art projects and museum visits, as well as scheduling museum tours for groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Shelley-Moseley<\/strong> has only been at the Tampa Museum of Art since September 2011, but she is where she wants to be \u2013 surrounded by various works of art.<br \/>\nOne of the reasons she enjoys what she\u2019s doing is because it comes easy. She\u2019s an artist and talking art is what she does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Shelley-Moseley<\/strong> came to Tampa at the perfect time \u2013 a few months before the opening of the Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections exhibition in January at the museum. Ironically, she came to Tampa from St. Louis, Missouri, where she spent a year as a Romare Bearden Graduate Minority Fellow. She found herself well-prepared to talk about the artist and his works in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Shelley-Moseley<\/strong> received undergraduate and master\u2019s degrees in art education from the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, OK.<\/p>\n<p>While here in Tampa she hopes to someday have her work on display. Her art is centered around the African-American experience. She does various forms of art \u2013 from oil paintings to mixed media and collages.<\/p>\n<p>Professionally, she is a member of the Florida Art Education Association, National Art Education Association and the American Association of Museums. Mrs. Moseley is the Children\u2019s Activity Committee Chairperson for the 2012 Gasparilla Festival of the Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor Michelle Shelley-Moseley is the new face at the Tampa Museum of Art in downtown Tampa. She\u2019s the Museum Educator in the Programming Department. That title entails developing exhibition-related educational materials for the public, teachers, students and the everyday audience. This position also includes working with various community groups on art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224","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\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}