{"id":11071,"date":"2014-11-19T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2016-06-16T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T14:12:34","slug":"esu-hosts-folk-outsider-art-sale-to-benefit-strauser-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-hosts-folk-outsider-art-sale-to-benefit-strauser-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU hosts Folk and Outsider Art Sale To Benefit Strauser Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"newshide\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/artsale700x300.png\" alt=\"artsale700x300\" \/><br \/>\nLooking for that extra-special holiday gift this year?\u00a0 East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania will host a folk and outsider art sale from Friday, November 28 to Tuesday, December 23 to benefit the Sterling Strauser Gallery at ESU.\u00a0 The sale will open with a special \u201cBlack Friday\u201d preview on November 28 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at ESU\u2019s Innovation Center, 562 Independence Road, East Stroudsburg, PA\u00a0 18301.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArt creates a thriving, innovative and connected community,\u201d said, Mary Frances Postupack, vice president of economic development and research support. \u201cThe artwork featured at this sale will enhance your home and office and allow you to give the priceless gift of art this holiday season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/artsale-full.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; max-width: 50%; margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/artsale-full-227x300.png\" alt=\"artsale-full\" \/><\/a>The sale will include over 100 works from local artists featuring works by Sterling and Dorothy Strauser and many of \u201cThe Strauser Circle\u201d of artists who have drawn national and international attention including: Victor Joseph Gatto, Justin McCarthy, Jack Savitsky, Joseph Polinski and others. The \u201cStrauser Circle\u201d is comprised of artists that Sterling and Dorothy discovered and promoted.\u00a0 Items for sale come from the private collections of local and regional collectors and from Sterling Strauser family members.\u00a0 Many of the paintings have never been viewed publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Following the preview on November 28, the sale will run weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on weekends by appointment. A portion of each sale will benefit the Sterling Strauser Gallery at ESU.<\/p>\n<p>The gallery, which officially opened in May of 2012, features the works of Strauser, who lived and painted in East Stroudsburg from 1928 to 1995.\u00a0 The gallery\u2019s initial collection was made possible thanks to a generous donation of 114 of Strauser\u2019s paintings by philanthropists and ardent art dealers, Grey and Linda Carter and family of McLean, Va.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this sale or to make an appointment, contact Postupack at 570-422-7920.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU hosts Folk and Outsider Art Sale To Benefit Strauser Gallery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,143,22,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-community","category-facebook","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11071"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14486,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions\/14486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}