{"id":108,"date":"2009-07-01T10:53:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T10:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/2009\/07\/01\/maria-mazzioti-gillan-gives-gift-of-art-to-passaic-county-community-college\/"},"modified":"2009-07-01T10:53:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T10:53:53","slug":"maria-mazzioti-gillan-gives-gift-of-art-to-passaic-county-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2009\/07\/01\/maria-mazzioti-gillan-gives-gift-of-art-to-passaic-county-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Mazzioti Gillan gives gift of art to Passaic County Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Mazziot Gillan has donated her 2005 work, <em>Japanese Women in Robes<\/em> to the permanent collection of contemporary fine art at Passaic County Community College. PCCC&#8217;s collection includes paintings, photographs, sculptures, and works on paper by regional, national, and internationally known artists, including important works by Jacob Landau, Ben Shahn, and George Tice.<br \/>\nA more extensive catalog can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/old.pccc.edu\/art\/gallery\/contemporary\/index.html\">PCCC website<\/a> . It features additional information about the artists and their works, and new images will be added as the collection continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBiographical note from the <a href=\"http:\/\/old.pccc.edu\/art\/gallery\/contemporary\/Maria_Mazziotti_Gillan.htm\">PCCC website<\/a>:<br \/>\nMaria Mazziotti Gillan is the founder and Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey. She is also a professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Gillan has published eight books of poetry, including Where I Come From (1995), Things My Mother Told Me (Guernica Editions, 1998), and Italian Women in Black Dresses (Guernica, 2002). She is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of three anthologies published by Penguin\/Putnam: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, and Growing up Ethnic in America. Also-, she has co-edited with her daughter Jennifer Gillan and Edvige Giunta, Italian American Writers on New Jersey (Rutgers University Press). She is the editor of the award-winning Paterson Literary Review. In recent years, Maria Gillan has returned to painting and collage. Her work was exhibited at North light Books and Caf\u00e9 in Cotati, California, in a one-person show entitled \u201cThrough One Woman\u2019s Eyes\u201d in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Mazziot Gillan has donated her 2005 work, Japanese Women in Robes to the permanent collection of contemporary fine art at Passaic County Community College. PCCC&#8217;s collection includes paintings, photographs, sculptures, and works on paper by regional, national, and internationally known artists, including important works by Jacob Landau, Ben Shahn, and George Tice. A more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}