{"id":318,"date":"2015-11-05T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenjacksonart.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2018-06-03T14:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:55:20","slug":"the-care-of-the-water-poster-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"The Care of the Water poster entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Care-of-Water.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-319 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Care-of-Water.png\" alt=\"The-Care-of-Water\" width=\"1296\" height=\"1728\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Care-of-Water.png 1296w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Care-of-Water-113x150.png 113w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Care-of-Water-225x300.png 225w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Care-of-Water-768x1024.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I&#8217;m Native American. \u00a0My tribe&#8217;s Environmental Department had a poster design contest that focused on water. \u00a0Being from Michigan, water is kind of a big deal for us. \u00a0I mean, we&#8217;re surrounded. \u00a0There are many things to be mindful of though to keep our lakes and rivers beautiful. \u00a0The theme was announced as &#8220;Nibiish Naagdowen&#8221; or &#8220;The care of the water&#8221;. \u00a0This was my entry and interpretation of what Nibiish Naagdowen meant to me. \u00a0I took advantage of many patterns included in Illustrator and tried to incorporate them together. \u00a0The hands were drawn out using my touchscreen pen as well as the turtle shell which I then duplicated. \u00a0I wanted to add the symbol of the medicine wheel but I decided to put a little spin on it and made it seem more fluid like a wave. \u00a0I gave my nod to the state in the reflection of the water in the hands. \u00a0There is a lot I like about this piece and things I would change but I&#8217;m happy with the result. \u00a0I did not end up winning the contest but my piece will be displayed as an honorable mention on a new tribal website dedicated to the issues of Michigan waterways and lakes. \u00a0I will be sure to update this post with a link as soon as that website is up and running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I&#8217;m Native American. \u00a0My tribe&#8217;s Environmental Department had a poster design contest that focused on water. \u00a0Being from Michigan, water is kind of a big deal for us. \u00a0I mean, we&#8217;re surrounded. \u00a0There are many things to be mindful of though to keep our lakes and rivers beautiful. \u00a0The theme was&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[245,248,246,244,249,251,154,247,250,153,136],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","category-random","tag-care","tag-care-of-the-water","tag-cupped-hands","tag-hands","tag-ltbb","tag-michigan","tag-native","tag-nibiish-naagdowen","tag-odawa","tag-tribal","tag-water","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}