{"id":24883,"date":"2022-09-13T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/?p=24883"},"modified":"2022-09-13T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:40:07","slug":"community-paint-party-at-mason-square-branch-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/community-paint-party-at-mason-square-branch-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Paint Party at Mason Square Branch Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>09\/11\/2022 &#8211; SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) \u2013 Fresh Paint Springfield held a community paint party Saturday over at the Mason Square Library.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone came to grab a paintbrush and participate in the mural movement that was originally designed and created by AfriCOBRA artist Nelson Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re keeping his memory and soul alive and I\u2019m sure he\u2019s proud because I am not an artist, but I\u2019m here today to paint a part of one of the murals that he did back in the 70s,\u201d said Theresa Cooper-Gordon of Holyoke.<\/p>\n<p>The community mural is done in a paint-by-number style, using polytab to mesh together all of the pieces, allowing the community to paint together and commemorate Stevens\u2019 Legacy throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwlp.com\/news\/local-news\/hampden-county\/fresh-paint-springfield-invites-community-to-mural-painting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at WWLP.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/springfield\/2022\/09\/seen-mason-square-library-paint-party-photos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See pictures of the event at Masslive.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh Paint Springfield held a community paint party Saturday over at the Mason Square Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,102,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-adults","category-news-mason-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24884,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions\/24884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}