{"id":7862,"date":"2019-05-08T13:44:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=7862"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:45:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:45:56","slug":"elizabethtown-college-student-wins-2019-inspiration-award-in-art-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2019\/05\/08\/elizabethtown-college-student-wins-2019-inspiration-award-in-art-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Student Wins 2019 Inspiration Award in Art History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Elizabethtown College senior,\u00a0Hannah Ciocco, received the College&#8217;s Inspiration Award in Art History in recognition of her documentary on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/now.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/05\/Hannah-Ciocco-fullsizeoutput_286.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7863 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/now.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/05\/Hannah-Ciocco-fullsizeoutput_286-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/05\/Hannah-Ciocco-fullsizeoutput_286-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/05\/Hannah-Ciocco-fullsizeoutput_286-50x50.jpeg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hannah, who is a History major with minors in Art History and Religious Studies, wrote, filmed and edited the 40-minute video, <em>Remembering King: A Dispute in Collective Public Memory,<\/em> for her honors in the Discipline project in History.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My documentary emphasized the idea that the enduring nature of memorials ensures that they have significant influence on public memory,&#8221; Hannah said. &#8220;For these reasons, memorials often elicit serious debate.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, a four-acre complex in West Potomac Park next to the National Mall, sparked controversy when it opened in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon completion, however, memorials often become accepted and beloved landmarks that influence public memory for years and even generations,&#8221; Hannah said. &#8220;I decided to go to the MLK Jr. Memorial and interview visitors myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hannah\u2019s mentor for the documentary was Elizabethtown College History Professor David Kenley, with whom she previously studied Digital Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>After graduation, Hannah will continue her education at John Hopkins University where she has been accepted to the Master\u2019s program in Museum Studies with a certificate in digital curation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Elizabethtown College senior,\u00a0Hannah Ciocco, received the College&#8217;s Inspiration Award in Art History in recognition of her documentary on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C.\u00a0 Hannah, who is a History major with minors in Art History and Religious Studies, wrote, filmed and edited the 40-minute video, Remembering King: A Dispute in Collective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":7578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[490,1201,743,209],"class_list":["post-7862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","tag-achievements-2","tag-art-history","tag-history","tag-religious-studies","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7866,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7862\/revisions\/7866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}