{"id":11390,"date":"2014-12-12T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=11390"},"modified":"2015-08-12T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T13:41:06","slug":"aleta-levine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/aleta-levine\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleta Levine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my retirement in late 2003 I have focused upon developing my artistic interests and skills, something I had less time to do while I was busy developing those things in others during my career as an art instructor. <!--more-->\u00a0Family continues to be important to me and as mine has grown through my children&#8217;s marriages and the growth of their families I have brought images and impressions from it into my creative work. \u00a0My goal has been to meld two loves into one.<\/p>\n<p>My propensity tends toward realism and my medium of choice is printmaking. \u00a0Viewers of my works can usually see images they can identify. \u00a0To these images I may add color and tome, complex patterns and intricate details sometimes created by using the chime colle technique. \u00a0Often I use photographs. \u00a0At times they are of people currently in my life such as my grandchildren or extended family. \u00a0At other times they are strangers who I try, through my art, to make part of my life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my retirement in late 2003 I have focused upon developing my artistic interests and skills, something I had less time to do while I was busy developing those things in others during my career as an art instructor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-artists"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12486,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions\/12486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}