{"id":903,"date":"2010-05-18T13:25:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=903"},"modified":"2011-11-12T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T19:47:09","slug":"congrats-to-artist-tammy-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2010\/congrats-to-artist-tammy-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to artist Tammy Smith!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-940\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/2010\/congrats-to-artist-tammy-smith\/tammy-smith-jazz-fest-2010\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-940\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/2010\/congrats-to-artist-tammy-smith\/tammy-smith-jazz-fest-2010\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-940\" title=\"Tammy Smith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tammy-smith.Jazz-Fest-2010-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tammy Smith\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tammy-smith.Jazz-Fest-2010-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tammy-smith.Jazz-Fest-2010-515x386.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tammy-smith.Jazz-Fest-2010.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just wanted to give a big shout-out to artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/artist\/artist.jsp?artistId=16540&#038;source=blog_post16\" target=\"_self\">Tammy Smith<\/a> who recently won Best in Show at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nojazzfest.com\/\" target=\"_self\">New Orleans Jazz Festival<\/a> art fair!<\/p>\n<p>Tammy joined the UncommonGoods artist team in the fall of 2009 &#8211; with  her signature<a href=\"http:\/\/find.uncommongoods.pro\/?q=tammy%20smith&#038;source=blog_post16\" target=\"_self\"> treasure boxes<\/a> inspired by old-fashioned circuses and abandoned carnivals.<\/p>\n<p>Tammy won the &#8220;best in show&#8221; award for her entire body of work which consisted of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homemadecircus.com\/category\/artwork\/wall-hangings\/\" target=\"_self\">mixed media wall art<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homemadecircus.com\/category\/artwork\/3d\/\" target=\"_self\">wire sculptures<\/a> that teeter between joyful and eerie.\u00a0 In addition to showing her work, Tammy was also in a demo tent, and spent several hours a day showing people how she makes her wire sculptures. Very cool!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-941\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/2010\/congrats-to-artist-tammy-smith\/tammysmith_2\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-941\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/2010\/congrats-to-artist-tammy-smith\/tammysmith_2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-941\" title=\"Tammy Smith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tammysmith_2-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Tammy Smith\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tammysmith_2-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tammysmith_2-515x358.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tammysmith_2.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A little about the festival: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nojazzfest.com\/\" target=\"_self\">New Orleans Jazz Festival art fair<\/a> is a national juried art fair that is<br \/>\nheld every year in NOLA. This 10-day cultural festival not only consists of artists and craftspeople from all over the world, but also thousands of cooks and musicians serving up delicious Louisiana cuisine and world-renowned music. The show has three art areas: Congo Square, featuring mostly African American artists, Louisiana Marketplace, which features local artists, and the Contemporary Crafts area, which features artists from all over the country. Tammy participated in the Contemporary Crafts group with a focus on\u00a0 3D mixed media.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats Tammy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncommon artist wins big at New Orleans art fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}