{"id":2205093,"date":"2025-12-19T06:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2205093"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:25:04","slug":"marshall-university-announces-new-public-mural-project-at-smith-music-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/marshall-university-announces-new-public-mural-project-at-smith-music-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall University announces new public mural project at Smith Music Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"lg:float-right w-full lg:w-1\/3 lg:ml-6 mb-6 grid grid-cols-1 gap-8\">\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The west facing side of the Smith Music Hall will be the site of a new public art mural. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div>Funding has been secured, in part through the National Endowment for the Arts, for a new public mural to be installed on the west face of Evelyn Holbrook Smith Music Hall at Marshall University.<\/p>\n<p>The project is a collaborative effort involving the School of Art &amp; Design, the College of Arts &amp; Media, the Marshall Public Art Committee, and Marshall Marketing &amp; Communications, which will oversee the public engagement process.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned muralist Nichole Westfall, the 2024 West Virginia Governor\u2019s Artist of the Year, will lead the project. Westfall is known for her bold, whimsical, Appalachian-inspired style and artwork that encourages communities to let \u201cjoy thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mural will highlight the transformative impact of the arts and public art, celebrate Marshall evolution from a Normal School to a modern university and reflect the institution\u2019s Marshall for All initiative as well as its upcoming 2037 Bicentennial.<\/p>\n<p>Installation of the mural is anticipated for late April or early May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Public comment on the project is open through February 6, 2026 at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/mural\/\">https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/mural\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.marshall.edu \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The west facing side of the Smith Music Hall will be the site of a new public art mural. Funding has been secured, in part through the National Endowment for the Arts, for a new public mural to be installed on the west face of Evelyn Holbrook Smith Music Hall at Marshall University. The project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2205094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Marshall-University-announces-new-public-mural-project-at-Smith-Music.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205095,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205093\/revisions\/2205095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}