{"id":9,"date":"2017-03-30T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bel.icompute.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:54:56","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_80231-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2694\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_80231-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_80231-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_80231-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_80231.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Born and raised in Minnesota, Bethany is a sculptor, working primarily in stone, for whom drawing and painting form an integral part of her creative process. She holds a BA in sculpture (\u201903) from the University of Dallas, and she is a 2019 graduate from the drawing and painting program at the Florence Academy of Art (Jersey City location).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bethany currently works both in the Charlottesville and DC areas where she works on commissions in stone and as well as teaches stone carving classes.<\/p>\n<p>It is of note that the artist has enjoyed the unmerited support and generosity of her family &#8211; support without which her artistic endeavors would not be possible.<\/p>\n<p>When not in the studio, Bethany can often be found entertaining her nieces and nephew, reading at a local coffee shop, or wandering around in the woods somewhere in the Blueridge Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in Minnesota, Bethany is a sculptor, working primarily in stone, for whom drawing and painting form an integral part of her creative process. She holds a BA in sculpture (\u201903) from the University of Dallas, and she is a 2019 graduate from the drawing and painting program at the Florence Academy of Art (Jersey City location).\u00a0 Bethany&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/bio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/fullwidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}