{"id":7660,"date":"2013-12-04T12:46:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2017-08-19T13:29:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:29:04","slug":"patterns-are-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/patterns-are-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"Colomba Furio-Spigner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0Colomba has always had a love for the arts from a young age&#8230;<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In her retirement, she has had time to indulge in her two passions, painting and photography.<\/p>\n<p>In her professional life Colomba has been an IT professional for over ten years with major Wall Street brokerage firms where she worked as a Programmer, Systems Analyst and Project Manager.\u00a0 She has recently retired from a 28 year career as an educator for the New York City Department of Education where she worked as a teacher of Social Studies, English and Computer Technology.\u00a0 She has also taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pace University and Queensboro Community College and holds a PhD from NYU&#8217;s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.<\/p>\n<p>She continues to teach part-time in the New York City Department of Education&#8217;s Dream Program, whose goal is to prepare underprivileged students achieve admission to the city&#8217;s specialized high schools.<\/p>\n<p>For the past seven years, Colomba has been studying oil painting with Little Neck artist Howard Boesenthal.\u00a0 She is a member of, and has exhibited with the Nassau Art League and the Manhasset Art Association.\u00a0 She is also a member of the Great Neck-Manhasset Photography Club.<\/p>\n<p>She lives in Plandome Manor with her husband and two sons.<\/p>\n<p>Featured in &#8220;Namaste&#8221; 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Colomba has always had a love for the arts from a young age&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17253,"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-7660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","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=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17254,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/17254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}