{"id":9,"date":"2015-01-27T03:06:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T03:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2015-01-26T22:21:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T04:21:30","slug":"pamela-nagy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Shenequa A. Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shenequaabrooks.com\/about\/\">Shenequa A. Brooks<\/a> is a fiber artist who weaves synthetic human hair in her works.\u00a0 On her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shenequaabrooks.com\/about\/\">web site<\/a>, she explains, \u201cI am designing and creating a body of work using braiding hair as a way to communicate with my sisters how intimate, powerful, celebratory, and socially pleasing getting one\u2019s hair done can be.\u201d\u00a0 Over the summer she traveled to Ghana to study traditional weaving techniques as a recipient of the Windgate Travel Fellowship.\u00a0 She supplemented this with a study of contemporary African-American hairstyling at the Bronner Bros. International Hair Show and Madame CJ Walker Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Squa-Plaits.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Squa-Plaits.jpg\" alt=\"Squa-Plaits\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Squa-Plaits.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Squa-Plaits-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shenequa A. Brooks is a fiber artist who weaves synthetic human hair in her works.\u00a0 On her web site, she explains, \u201cI am designing and creating a body of work using braiding hair as a way to communicate with my sisters how intimate, powerful, celebratory, and socially pleasing getting one\u2019s hair done can be.\u201d\u00a0 Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womenartistsmidwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}