{"id":30497,"date":"2024-10-01T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-mellencamp-to-be-honored-with-a-statue-on-indiana-universitys-bloomington-campus\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:02:26","slug":"john-mellencamp-to-be-honored-with-a-statue-on-indiana-universitys-bloomington-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-mellencamp-to-be-honored-with-a-statue-on-indiana-universitys-bloomington-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mellencamp to be honored with a statue on Indiana University\u2019s Bloomington campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-01\/Getty_JohnMellecamp_100124.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Gary Miller\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>John Mellencamp<\/strong> will be honored with a statue at Indiana University\u2019s Bloomington campus during homecoming weekend.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mellencamp is expected to attend the unveiling of the statue, which is happening Oct. 18 between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. at the Elsie Irwin Sweeney Rock Garden on the north end of the Fine Arts Plaza. The statue\u00a0was created by artist <strong>Michael McAuley<\/strong>, an IU alumnus\u00a0from Bloomington, who is also the creative director at Livingston Designs Sculpture Studio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Registration <a href=\"https:\/\/universityevents.iu.edu\/machform\/view.php?id=654393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>is now open<\/strong><\/a> to members of the public who&#8217;d like to attend the unveiling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe are excited to welcome John to our campus once again as we commemorate his invaluable contributions to music, art and our university,\u201d IU President <strong>Pamela Whitten<\/strong> said. \u201cThe arts have long been a point of pride at IU, and we look forward to honoring a musician and artist who has generously given back to his fellow Hoosiers and greatly impacted American culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mellencamp\u2019s artwork is also on display at the university. His exhibit, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Crossroads: The Paintings of John Mellencamp<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, is currently running at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/artmuseum.indiana.edu\/?_gl=1*1wwz0n8*_gcl_au*MTc1NTk5NTkzMC4xNzI3Nzk2NDUy*_ga*MTI2NDEyNjAzNi4xNzI3Nzk2NDMx*_ga_61CH0D2DQW*MTcyNzc5NjQzMS4xLjEuMTcyNzc5NjQ4NC43LjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>IU Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Miller\/Getty Images John Mellencamp will be honored with a statue at Indiana University\u2019s Bloomington campus during homecoming weekend.\u00a0 Mellencamp is expected to attend the unveiling of the statue, which is happening Oct. 18 between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. at the Elsie Irwin Sweeney Rock Garden on the north<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-mellencamp-to-be-honored-with-a-statue-on-indiana-universitys-bloomington-campus\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}