{"id":226610,"date":"2016-04-29T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=226610"},"modified":"2016-04-29T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:00:03","slug":"jacoulet-presentation-friday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/jacoulet-presentation-friday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacoulet presentation this Friday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_226618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226618\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jacoulet-pix-201x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Paul Jacoulet\u2019s Rainbow Series published prints. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council cordially invites the public to a presentation by visiting anthropologist Dr. Don Rubinstein that will be held at the Fiesta Hall of Grandvrio Resort (formerly Hafadai Beach Hotel) on Friday, April 29, beginning at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>Rubinstein\u2019s presentation is titled \u201cThe Art and Vision of Paul Jacoulet in Micronesia.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>Working in the exacting medium of Japanese woodblock (ukiyo-e) printing, Jacoulet produced a stunning collection of portraits based on his visits to the Marianas and Caroline Islands in the late 1920s and early 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Jacoulet\u2019s first published prints, the iconic Rainbow Series (1934), featured seven beautiful Chamorro women in Saipan, each featured in a different color.<\/p>\n<p>These women included Conception Guerrero, Rosalia Calistro, Juanita Untalan, Catharina Tudela, Dolores Amparro, Mariana Diaz, and Carmen Blanco.<\/p>\n<p>Rubinstein will provide an overview of Jacoulet and his work with a particular focus on the Rainbow Series.  <\/p>\n<p>Descendants of the Rainbow women who attend the presentation will be provided with a ribbon whose color corresponds to the rainbow color of their relative\u2019s portrait.  <\/p>\n<p>Rubinstein has been on the faculty of the University of Guam\u2019s Micronesian Area Research Center since 1988.  He teaches graduate courses in University\u2019s Micronesian Studies Program.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation is sponsored by the Northern Marianas Humanities Council as a part of its ongoing Community Lecture Series.  It is open to the public and free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Please call council staff at 235-4785 for more information about this upcoming event. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council cordially invites the public to a presentation by visiting anthropologist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":226618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11226,11227,11071,11072],"class_list":["post-226610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-conception-guerrero","tag-juanita-untalan","tag-paul-jacoulet","tag-rainbow-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}