{"639693":{"#nid":"639693","#data":{"type":"news","title":"SPP, ModLangs Grad Sarah Oso Receives ArtsXChange Emerging Leader Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESarah Oso, a 2019 graduate of the School of Public Policy and School of Modern Languages who was also a walk-on Stamps President\u0026#39;s Scholar, was named Emerging Leader during this year\u0026#39;s Ebon Dooley Art and Justice Awards from ArtsXchange, part of the Southeast Community Cultural Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Ebon Dooley Art and Justice Awards, named after the late community activist who founded ArtsXchange in 1983, are given to community members who\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;practice art for the people\u0026#39;s sake\u0026quot; or are an \u0026quot;organizer\/organization whose toolbox includes the practice of art integration - using culture and creativity in the service of a defined community as part a social or economic goal,\u0026quot; per the organization\u0026#39;s website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an Emerging Leader, Oso was recognized as someone under the age of 35 who \u0026quot;demonstrates a commitment to a body of work that supports the ways art can tell a story or illuminate the social condition.\u0026quot; Oso has been an active and widely published poet in recent years, with her poems being nominated for the Pushcart Prize, an award recognizing works from small publishers\u0026nbsp;and that appear in magazines including\u0026nbsp;the \u003Cem\u003ENew Ohio Review\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003EHelen Literary Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E. Oso won the inaugural School of Literature, Media, and Communication Creative Writing Award in 2017 for her poem \u0026quot;Heritage.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The ways in which we share story through communion and through art are no longer a luxury we can go without \u0026ndash; they become essential,\u0026quot; Oso said in her acceptance speech for the award. \u0026quot;Storytelling gives us a way to illuminate an experience without repeating it. Story is resistance, an actual instrument of change, and that\u0026#39;s a lot of power to wield. But as born storytellers, it\u0026#39;s a power that\u0026#39;s in each of us inherently, that we deserve.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can read more about Oso\u0026#39;s award and the Ebon Dooley Art and Justice Awards \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.artsxchange.org\/ebon-dooley\u0022\u003Eat this link.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESarah Oso, a 2019 graduate of the schools of Public Policy and Modern Languages was named an\u0026nbsp;Emerging Leader during this year\u0026#39;s Ebon Dooley Art and Justice Awards from ArtsXchange.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sarah Oso, a 2019 graduate of the schools of Public Policy and Modern Languages, was named Emerging Leader during this year\u0027s Ebon Dooley Art and Justice Awards from ArtsXchange."}],"uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-09-29 15:23:21","changed_gmt":"2020-09-29 19:52:43","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"639694":{"id":"639694","type":"image","title":"Sarah Oso","body":null,"created":"1601393230","gmt_created":"2020-09-29 15:27:10","changed":"1601393230","gmt_changed":"2020-09-29 15:27:10","alt":"","file":{"fid":"243200","name":"Screen Shot 2020-09-29 at 11.24.53 AM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202020-09-29%20at%2011.24.53%20AM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202020-09-29%20at%2011.24.53%20AM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":166931,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202020-09-29%20at%2011.24.53%20AM.png?itok=-6trzzSQ"}}},"media_ids":["639694"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"},{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}