{"id":119,"date":"2020-12-08T04:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T04:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2020-12-10T19:24:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:24:32","slug":"the-artivist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/the-artivist\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ARTIVIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>By: Sope Aluko<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Nikkolas Smith<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a Disney theme park designer turned \u201cartivist.\u201d In 2012, the tragic death of Travyon Martin and the acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman, inspired Smith to channel the pain that he felt that day, and turn his love for art into a healing form of therapy. One day of sketching and drawing turned into over 100 more over the next five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The compiled result&#8230; is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sunday Sketches.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sunday Sketches FINAL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HP7d8cxddyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"text-header-xs\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-247 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sope-Aluko-Headshot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><em class=\"font-weight-regular\">Sope Aluko<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a print\/online journalist working towards achieving her dream of mastering all things multimedia. Her passion for journalism started back in high school where she quickly realized her love and passion for storytelling, more than 12 years ago. If she was to choose a dream job, she would spend her days telling the stories of those in underrepresented communities all across the world.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Sope Aluko Nikkolas Smith is a Disney theme park designer turned \u201cartivist.\u201d In 2012, the tragic death of Travyon Martin and the acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman, inspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}