{"id":11673,"date":"2025-02-12T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11673"},"modified":"2025-02-13T21:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T21:09:02","slug":"nia-symonne-gayles-senior-capstone-featured-by-mpr-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/12\/nia-symonne-gayles-senior-capstone-featured-by-mpr-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nia-Symonne Gayle\u2019s Senior Capstone Featured by MPR News, Sahan Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6606 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo.png\" alt=\"MPR News logo\" width=\"267\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo.png 925w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a>MPR News and Sahan Journal recently highlighted Nia-Symonne Gayle \u201924 and her senior exhibition project \u201cGOOD Hair,\u201d currently displayed in the Christensen Gallery through February 19. Gayle graduated as an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/art-and-design\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">art and design major<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in December, and her capstone project recreates her childhood living room where her mom would do her hair\u2014including TV, magazines, and hair products associated with the Afro-nostalgia Gayle incorporates into her work. She says this project \u201cis a love letter to her mother and to Black people and Black culture. It\u2019s a reminder that all hair is good hair.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about the project from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2025\/02\/11\/good-hair-and-afronostalgia-in-a-living-room-at-augsburg-university\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MPR News<\/span><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/sahanjournal.com\/arts-culture\/minnesota-things-to-do-opera-indigenous-art-mia-black-hair\/\">Sahan Journal<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and learn more about Augsburg\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/galleries.augsburg.edu\/art-design-senior-exhibition-2025\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art &amp; Design Senior Showcase Exhibition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPR News and Sahan Journal recently highlighted Nia-Symonne Gayle \u201924 and her senior exhibition project \u201cGOOD Hair,\u201d currently displayed in the Christensen Gallery through February 19. Gayle graduated as an art and design major in December, and her capstone project recreates her childhood living room where her mom would do her hair\u2014including TV, magazines, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,3228,8],"tags":[4035,209,3671],"class_list":["post-11673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-in-the-news","category-kudos","category-students","tag-art-and-design","tag-art-exhibits","tag-mpr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11673"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11688,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions\/11688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}