{"id":7479,"date":"2014-03-24T09:13:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T13:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2014-03-24T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T13:13:30","slug":"sgt-ron-kelsey-07-seeks-healing-for-others-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2014\/03\/24\/sgt-ron-kelsey-07-seeks-healing-for-others-through-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. Ron Kelsey \u201907 seeks healing for others through art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sgt. Ron Kelsey \u201907<\/strong> will hold an art exhibit at the U. S. Army\u2019s Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.\u00a0 The exhibit is Ron\u2019s offering a way to help his fellow soldiers deal with the trauma of war through the traveling art exhibit.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/news\/ci_25309448\/fort-bliss-soldier-brings-healing-art-exhibit-to-post\">Click here<\/a> to read a recent El Paso Times news story about Ron and the exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exhibit, called &#8220;Reflections of Generosity: Toward Restoration and Peace&#8221; will show at Fort Bliss \u00a0. . . throughout the month of April.<\/p>\n<p>It will consist of Kelsey&#8217;s own original artwork, art from his friends at the International Arts Movement in New York City where he once interned, and art from his fellow soldiers and the El Paso community. Kelsey is seeking art from soldiers and El Pasoans through March 28 for inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is to use art as a healing tool,\u201d said Kelsey, who is a personnel specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 16th Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division.<\/p>\n<p>Good work, Ron!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7482\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7482\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/03\/ron-kelsey1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7482\" title=\"ron kelsey\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/03\/ron-kelsey1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Kelsey &#8217;07 with sample of art from the exhibit.<br \/>Photo courtesy of El Paso Times (Texas).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sgt. Ron Kelsey \u201907 will hold an art exhibit at the U. S. Army\u2019s Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.\u00a0 The exhibit is Ron\u2019s offering a way to help his fellow soldiers [&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-7479","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\/7479","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=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}