{"id":4882,"date":"2016-08-18T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2016-08-18T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T15:51:51","slug":"interview-with-an-artist-andrea-mai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreamaicreative.com\/archive\/interview-with-an-artist-andrea-mai\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW WITH AN ARTIST: NEW VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to announce the launch of Dreamer Gallery and its first exhibition in September. It;s been a dream of mine to create space for &#8220;conscious&#8221; art- art that is created to uplift the spirit of humanity. I&#8217;ve been busy creating new videos to talk about my work. Here&#8217;s my latest video where I talk about my disability, intuition, and my artistic influences.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vVDUeZdHkbk?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to announce the launch of Dreamer Gallery and its first exhibition in September. It;s been a dream of mine to create space for &#8220;conscious&#8221; art- art that is created to uplift the spirit of humanity. I&#8217;ve been busy creating new videos to talk about my work. Here&#8217;s my latest video where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5508,"url":"https:\/\/www.andreamaicreative.com\/archive\/where-is-the-real-art-prince-warned-us-of-this-over-a-decade-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":4882,"position":0},"title":"WHERE IS THE REAL ART? 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