{"id":25071,"date":"2024-10-31T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25071"},"modified":"2024-10-31T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:03:33","slug":"creating-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/creating-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23dddddd&amp;d=nov24_issuu.com&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=30&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">One artist imagines a future through the pentimento of Maine\u2019s Black history.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Story by Clif Travers<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cThe thing I do is the only thing I can do,\u201d says artist <strong>Daniel Minter<\/strong>, 63, \u201cand I\u2019ve been doing it for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">His years show in his oeuvre. He\u2019s illustrated over a dozen children\u2019s books, has shown his sculptures and paintings in as many museums, and is responsible for educational programs that have brought Maine\u2019s Black history out of the shadows. Minter has been the recipient of the prestigious <strong>Joyce Award<\/strong>, the <strong>Caldecott Medal<\/strong>, and the <strong>Maine Literary Award<\/strong><b>. <\/b>As the co-founder of the non-profit <strong>Indigo Arts Alliance<\/strong>, he\u2019s been the standard bearer for the cultural and artistic endeavors of people of African descent here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CreatingCulture-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CreatingCulture-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CreatingCulture-1-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CreatingCulture-1-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1491],"class_list":["post-25071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-november-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25135,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25071\/revisions\/25135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}