{"id":2136,"date":"2011-03-20T07:21:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2011-03-20T07:21:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:21:24","slug":"a-true-learning-experience-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/03\/20\/a-true-learning-experience-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"A True Learning Experience&#8230;for everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art Professor Doug Calisch sent an email to the campus earlier in the week. \u00a0One of his art majors, Will Skertic &#8217;11, would be doing his senior art project (executive summary: pouring 2000 degree molten brass into molds he had designed and made) on March 18th in the Fine Arts Building. \u00a0I had heard about this once before and wanted to watch it in person. \u00a0I had already completed my Advancement mail run for the day so off I went.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2137\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/03\/senior-art_MG_8949.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2137\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/03\/senior-art_MG_8949.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/03\/senior-art_MG_8949.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/03\/senior-art_MG_8949-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Skertic &#039;11 pours the 2000 degree brass into one of his molds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had no idea how cool it would be! \u00a0Will was helped by Evan Bayless &#8217;12 and Callum Davies &#8217;11 and instructed by Professor Doug Calisch. \u00a0The absolute best part was watching the four of them work together. \u00a0They were in it as a team. \u00a0(One of the six molds was Doug&#8217;s creation.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2138\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/03\/senior-art_MG_8994.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2138\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/03\/senior-art_MG_8994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/03\/senior-art_MG_8994.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/03\/senior-art_MG_8994-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes!!!  Doug Calisch is proud of Will&#039;s work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was neat to see the creative genius of Will coming through. \u00a0It was just as cool to see the pride in Doug as he looked on at Will&#8217;s work. \u00a0It was also cool that, on a spring Friday afternoon, Evan and Callum were there to help a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Made a bad week a good one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Professor Doug Calisch sent an email to the campus earlier in the week. \u00a0One of his art majors, Will Skertic &#8217;11, would be doing his senior art project (executive summary: pouring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}