{"id":38,"date":"2013-12-30T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me.php53-5.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com\/peoplefondue\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2016-08-21T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T22:19:17","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/about","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #cf434c;\">why ECLAIRE?<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #e64e55;\"><b>\u00e9clair<\/b>: noun, a chocolate-frosted oblong pastry filled with whipped cream or custard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #e64e55;\"><strong>\u00e9clairer<\/strong>: french verb, to lighten, brighten; to shed light, enlighten<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #e64e55;\"><b>ellen<\/b>: greek origin, torch, bright light,\u00a0sunday, shining light<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My full name, Ellen Claire Caldwell, is a conglomerate of terms and meanings. \u00a0First, I love sweets, pastries, and everything chocolate, so\u00a0\u00e9clairs\u00a0have always been my thing (along with being my unofficial namesake). Additionally, both my first and middle names have similar meaning involving lightening, brightening, and shedding light &#8212; so it is my hope that through my writing, I can live up to those names.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ellen2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ellen2-500x333.jpeg\" alt=\"ellen caldwell\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ellen2-500x333.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ellen2.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #cf434c;\"> bio<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com\/tag\/ellen-c-caldwell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen C. Caldwell<\/a>\u00a0is an art historian, writer, and featured contributor to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/author\/ellen_caldwell\/\">JSTOR Daily<\/a><\/em>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newamericanpaintings.com\/blog\/tags\/ellen-c-caldwell\" target=\"_blank\"><i>New American Paintings<\/i>\u00a0blog<\/a>,\u00a0and KCET&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/arts\/artbound\/counties\/los-angeles\/preservation-watts-towers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Artbound<\/i><\/a>. She has taught art history in Los Angeles at Mt. San Antonio College, Otis, and Pepperdine University. In 2014, Caldwell earned a Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Exchange International grant to travel to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.balipurnati.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bali Purnati Center for the Arts<\/a>\u00a0to complete an arts writing residency.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In 2013, Caldwell\u2019s essay \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/artcenternj\/docs\/frohawk_two_feathers_-_you_can_fall\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Myth, Midtopia, and Mapping: Frohawk Two Feathers and the Making of the Frenglish Empire<\/a>\u201d was featured in Two Feathers\u2019 museum catalogue for his traveling exhibition \u201cYou Can Fall: the War of the Mourning Arrows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also co-authored \u201c\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucmo.edu\/cjinst\/Issue_11.pdf#page=73\" target=\"_blank\">Superpredators\u2019 and \u2018Animals\u2019: Images and California\u2019s \u2018Get Tough on Crime\u2019 Initiatives<\/a>\u201d in the <em>Journal of the Institute of Justice &amp; International Studies<\/em> in 2011; curated \u201cRecrafting History: History, Nostalgia, and Craft in the American Memory\u201d at Taylor De Cordoba in 2011; and co-curated \u201cEdible Empire: African Cocoa in the Global Economy\u201d at University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #cf434c;\">about this site<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Ladyrow\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Reese Galido\" href=\"http:\/\/about.me\/reesegalido\" target=\"_blank\">Reese Galido<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0designed and built this beautiful website. \u00a0Artist and muralist\u00a0<strong><a title=\"MR44\" href=\"http:\/\/44.carbonmade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yoshi Takahashi<\/a>\/<a title=\"MR44\" href=\"http:\/\/44.carbonmade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MR44<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0designed the ECLAIRE logo and buttons. \u00a0And the talented<strong> <a title=\"Jeana Sohn Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/jeanasohnphotography.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeana Sohn<\/a> <\/strong>took the wonderful bio photographs.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #cf434c;\"><strong><em>Many thanks to all of them for their time, talent, and help.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>why ECLAIRE? \u00e9clair: noun, a chocolate-frosted oblong pastry filled with whipped cream or custard \u00e9clairer: french verb, to lighten, brighten; to shed light, enlighten ellen: greek origin, torch, bright light,\u00a0sunday, shining light My full name, Ellen Claire Caldwell, is a conglomerate of terms and meanings. \u00a0First, I love sweets, pastries, and everything chocolate, so\u00a0\u00e9clairs\u00a0have always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eclaire.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}