{"id":1595,"date":"2021-07-31T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T18:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:58:23","slug":"more-from-the-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"More from the Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/02_035_Skowhegan-Prize-\u00a9-Linda-Holt-1024x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/02_035_Skowhegan-Prize-\u00a9-Linda-Holt-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/02_035_Skowhegan-Prize-\u00a9-Linda-Holt-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/02_035_Skowhegan-Prize-\u00a9-Linda-Holt-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It all started at Skowhegan.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the renowned summer six week program for artists in Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students hailed from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I asked Neil Welliver if I could go.   He gave me a scholarship on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(That&#8217;s when I was a student of his in the MFA program at Penn.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I looked up the prizes in advance of my going,  there was a Nathaniel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saltonstall Award in drawing to be donated to the Colby College Museum of <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Art.    I said to myself,  I can win that.   (Robert Reed instilled such <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">confidence in my ability.  Anyone else who had the privilege of taking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">drawing classes from this remarkable teacher knows exactly what I mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He left Skidmore to join the faculty at Yale.)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And win it I did,  for the handsome prize money of a whopping ten dollars \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The image was totally imagined in my mind.   Several paintings evolved <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from it such as this large party scene below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/02_036_Skowhegan-Party-Barn-\u00a9-Linda-Holt-1024x721.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/02_036_Skowhegan-Party-Barn-\u00a9-Linda-Holt-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/02_036_Skowhegan-Party-Barn-\u00a9-Linda-Holt-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/02_036_Skowhegan-Party-Barn-\u00a9-Linda-Holt-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started at Skowhegan. At the renowned summer six week program for artists in Maine. Students hailed from all over the world. I asked Neil Welliver if I could go. He gave me a scholarship on the spot. (That&#8217;s when I was a student of his in the MFA program at Penn.) When I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More from the Archive<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,9],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lindaaholt","tag-lindaholt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}