{"369971":{"#nid":"369971","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Office of the Arts and Poetry@Tech Kick Off Salon Series with Churchill\u2019s Great-Grandson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new lunchtime speaker series, the Arts@Tech Salon Series, featuring a range of arts-related topics started yesterday with a discussion of Winston Churchill\u2019s passion for painting and the role it played in his life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuncan Sandys, Churchill\u2019s great-grandson, and Rodney Cook, founder of Millennium Gate Museum, talked about the exhibition of paintings by Churchill at the Millennium Gate Museum at Atlantic Station. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe most important thing to understand is that Churchill faced an enormous amount of failure and adversity in his life,\u201d Sandys said. \u201cThrough his painting, he experimented, and that gave him the courage to experiment in his professional life \u2014 his diplomatic and political life. Painting helped Churchill to be more creative and innovative, and to have more courage. He said that courage is a primary human attribute because everything else flows from courage.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe British politician, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955, produced more than 500 paintings as a hobby. The Atlantic Station exhibition, titled \u201cThe Art of Diplomacy: Winston Churchill and the Pursuit of Painting,\u201d features 33 paintings and is the largest exhibition of Churchill\u2019s work held in America since 1965. The exhibition, which closes Saturday, January 31, also commemorates the 50th anniversary of the statesman\u2019s death.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think the one thing that I would [like for people to] take away is that when you\u2019re in the technical or inventions world, so to speak, you know you\u2019re going to fail,\u201d Sandys said. \u201cYou know you\u2019re not going to get it right the first time. These Tech students are going to be in a situation where they\u2019re trying to game-change, [similar to] the way Apple and others have game-changed the way we operate. What Churchill found, through painting, was the courage to pick himself up after failing and keep going. I think that\u2019s really the message for these students today because that\u2019s the world they\u2019re in. They\u2019re going to fail, but if they play it safe, it\u2019s not going to help the economy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA major goal for the Arts@Tech Salon Series is to grow interest in the arts among Georgia Tech students in particular, but also among faculty and staff, according to Travis Denton, curator of the Arts@Tech Salon Series and McEver Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s also important that a higher profile series, such as this, demonstrates to those in the community at large \u2014 Atlanta and beyond \u2014 that Tech does have an \u2018artsy\u2019 side as well,\u201d Denton said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want our students to graduate with an education that includes science, technology, and serious exposure to arts \u2014 both in the making and appreciation of it,\u201d Denton said. \u201cThe arts are thriving at Georgia Tech, with other programs such as Poetry@Tech, DramaTech, and all that\u2019s going on at the Ferst Center, but it\u2019s more important than ever that they get the attention boost.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe next event in the Arts@Tech Salon Series will take place March 25. It will feature Monica Campana, the founder and director of Living Walls. Campana commissions artists to install large-scale paintings on the sides of buildings, particularly in areas of town where renewal has not yet taken hold. The event will take place at noon in the Ferst Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor a calendar of Arts@Tech events, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arts.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Earts.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new lunchtime speaker series, the Arts@Tech Salon Series, featuring a range of arts-related topics started yesterday with a discussion of Winston Churchill\u2019s passion for painting and the role it played in his life. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuncan Sandys, Churchill\u2019s great-grandson, and Rodney Cook, founder of Millennium Gate Museum, talked about the exhibition of paintings by Churchill at the Millennium Gate Museum at Atlantic Station.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new lunchtime speaker series, the Arts@Tech Salon Series, featuring a range of arts-related topics started yesterday with a discussion of Winston Churchill\u2019s passion for painting and the role it played in his life."}],"uid":"27713","created_gmt":"2015-01-29 11:03:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:38","author":"Victor Rogers","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"369991":{"id":"369991","type":"image","title":"Churchill Art","body":null,"created":"1449245856","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:17:36","changed":"1475894382","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:42","alt":"Churchill Art","file":{"fid":"74981","name":"churchill-art.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/churchill-art.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/churchill-art.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":554868,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/churchill-art.jpg?itok=el4dr29_"}}},"media_ids":["369991"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/arts.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the Arts"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"64641","name":"arts@tech"},{"id":"5768","name":"Churchill"},{"id":"37131","name":"Office of the Arts"},{"id":"9950","name":"Poetry@Tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:victor.rogers@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EVictor Rogers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-6398\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["victor.rogers@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}