{"id":5404,"date":"2013-01-07T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2013-01-07T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:40:55","slug":"zach-medler-01-diversified-artist-worth-checking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/01\/07\/zach-medler-01-diversified-artist-worth-checking-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Medler \u201901 &#8211; diversified artist worth checking out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, Indiana artist <strong>Zach Medler \u201901<\/strong>\u00a0teamed up with a fellow artist to spray paint a mural on the bridge pylons of the overpass for U.S. 52 at North River Road in Lafayette, Indiana &#8211; with the blessings of the Tippecanoe Arts Federation&#8217;s \u201cMural Arts Initiative.\u201d\u00a0 The mural, inspired to blend the local area\u2019s nature and industry roots, was finished in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/01\/medler-mural-4.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5408\" title=\"medler mural 4\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/01\/medler-mural-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/01\/medler-mural-4.jpg 403w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/01\/medler-mural-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/01\/medler-mural-4-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But wait \u2013 there\u2019s more!\u00a0 Zach\u2019s art extends way beyond a can of paint. \u00a0He is a ceramicist and print maker and owns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmed-ceramics.com\/\">ZMed ceramics.<\/a>\u00a0 Zach lives in West Lafayette with his wife, Mindy. He holds a masters of arts degree in ceramics from Purdue University, and is an elected member of the Indiana Artisan program.\u00a0 He exhibits his work throughout the Midwest and nationally, including at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artists-own.com\/profiles\/ZachMedler\/\">Artist\u2019s Own<\/a> art co-op in downtown Lafayette, where you just might catch him working for a few hours each month.<\/p>\n<p>Warning:\u00a0 Be prepared to lose yourself in Zach\u2019s work once you start reading his blog, Facebook, and web site \u2013 it will be time well spent!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zmedceramics\">Zmedceramics on Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, Indiana artist Zach Medler \u201901\u00a0teamed up with a fellow artist to spray paint a mural on the bridge pylons of the overpass for U.S. 52 at North River Road in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5404","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\/5404","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\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}