{"id":33683,"date":"2004-03-12T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T14:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33683"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:51:09","slug":"guatemalan-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/03\/12\/guatemalan-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates student exhibits photographs of Guatemalan culture and nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/03\/guatemalaphoto72.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/03\/guatemalaphoto72-226x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"guatemalaphoto72\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An exhibition of photographs titled <em>Cultura y Naturaleza Guatemalteca<\/em> (<em>Culture and Nature in Guatemala<\/em>) by photographer Challen Willemsen, a first-year Bates College student from Guatemala City, Guatemala, is on display through March 26 in the Chase Gallery, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue. The exhibit opens with a gallery reception featuring food and music from Guatemala at 7 p.m. Friday, March 12. The public is invited to attend the reception and the exhibit\u00a0free of charge. Call 207-786-8376 for more information.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The display features approximately 40 photographs of orchids and other Guatemalan floral species, cultural representations, architecture and people. As a high school student, Willemsen attended the American School of Guatemala, where he developed an interest in the country&#8217;s orchid species. He began his own collection that now amounts to more than 3,000 plants. As his interest in the plants grew, he began to photograph them and to create a large database. Eventually, says Willemsen, an environmental studies major with an expected minor in Latin American history, he hopes to publish the entire collection as a field guide to Guatemalan orchid species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition of photographs titled &#8220;Cultura y Naturaleza Guatemalteca (Culture and Nature in Guatemala)&#8221; by photographer Challen Willemsen, a first-year Bates College student from Guatemala City, Guatemala, is on display through March 26 in the Chase Gallery, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39],"tags":[4005,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-33683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-guatemala","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90759,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33683\/revisions\/90759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}