{"id":803,"date":"2018-05-31T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/?post_type=project&#038;p=803"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:29:26","slug":"what-are-we-throwing-away-an-art-attack-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/project\/what-are-we-throwing-away-an-art-attack-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are We Throwing Away? [An Art Attack Collaboration]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was one piece from an art attack on Purcellville, VA. The amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/strangerbetweenworlds.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aviva Brueckner, German artist in Berlin<\/a>. Painted several yellow trash bags based on my theme of the town needing to carefully discuss the speed of progress that would best benefit the town &#8211; we don&#8217;t want to throw away progress and economic opportunity but we don&#8217;t want to throw away history and the small town feel that makes this place home for so many. I hung them up around town one night for everyone to find the next day. Tons of fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reflection on a public art collaboration in Purcellville, Virginia, where painted yellow trash bags hung around town overnight posed a question about balancing economic progress against preserving history and small-town character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[19,22],"project_tag":[403,402,404],"series":[],"class_list":["post-803","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-art","project_category-paintings","project_tag-art-attack","project_tag-collaboration","project_tag-small-towns"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For those interested in community art as civic conversation. 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