{"id":1188,"date":"2023-02-10T15:48:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:48:14","slug":"art-to-reflect-the-community-forbes-library-uses-anonymous-donation-to-purchase-a-range-of-bipoc-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/2023\/02\/10\/art-to-reflect-the-community-forbes-library-uses-anonymous-donation-to-purchase-a-range-of-bipoc-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Art to reflect the\u00a0community: Forbes Library uses anonymous donation to purchase a range of BIPOC art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple years ago, Forbes Library received a $10,000 donation from a donor who wanted to remain anonymous but also wanted the money used for a very specific purpose: to broaden the Northampton library\u2019s permanent art collection.<br>The library donor \u2014 the person lives in the area, according to Downing \u2014 told Forbes officials that the library \u201cideally should reflect the more diverse community we have today, as it\u2019s a community space itself, and we agree,\u201d Downing said.<br><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/Expanding-the-collection-Forbes-Library-unveils-new-work-by-local-and-regional-BIPOC-artists-49695971\">Read more from Hampshire Gazette<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago, Forbes Library received a $10,000 donation from a donor who wanted to remain anonymous but also wanted the money used for a very specific purpose: to broaden the Northampton library\u2019s permanent art collection.The library donor \u2014 the person lives in the area, according to Downing \u2014 told Forbes officials that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news-bites","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}