{"id":46522,"date":"2015-10-06T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=46522"},"modified":"2015-10-07T17:55:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T17:55:48","slug":"artist-tom-peter-gives-augsburg-elms-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2015\/10\/06\/artist-tom-peter-gives-augsburg-elms-new-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Tom Peter Gives Augsburg Elms New Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/09\/Campus-quad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-46444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/09\/Campus-quad-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Campus quad\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/09\/Campus-quad-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/09\/Campus-quad-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/09\/Campus-quad.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In early August, two of the three remaining elm trees in Augsburg\u2019s quad were removed in an effort to save the third tree from Dutch Elm disease. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.respectfultransitions.com\/\">Tom Peter<\/a>, a local certified arborist and wood-turning artist, reserved some of the wood to be transformed into pieces of art available to alumni and friends of the College.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46524\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/10\/photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-46524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/10\/photo-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;First Fruits Vessel&quot; - a donation to the College by the artist Tom Peter.\" width=\"239\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/10\/photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/10\/photo-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;First Fruits Vessel&#8221; &#8211; a donation to the College by the artist Tom Peter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Peter takes pride in giving an ever-lasting voice to the trees, and is honored to have been chosen for the project. He has made a gift to the College of a vessel, inset with a medallion (at left). His work carries the history of the trees&#8217; beautiful past and can be seen for decades to come. This piece and others will be available for viewing at the Taste Of Augsburg in Murphy Park on Saturday, October 10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/10\/Branch-art_Peter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-46523 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/10\/Branch-art_Peter-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Branch art_Peter\" width=\"262\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/10\/Branch-art_Peter-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/10\/Branch-art_Peter.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a>The elms created wonderful character of space in the quad for decades, and have helped inspire our longer-term visioning of the central campus as a larger green space that, over time, becomes an even more significant component of campus life.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Augsburg\u2019s urban arboretum and how you may own a wood-turned creation from the elm trees, please contact Amanda Storm Schuster, Director of Leadership Gifts at 612-330-1098 or <a href=\"ma&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#x3a;&#x73;&#x63;&#x68;&#x75;st&#101;&#97;&#64;&#97;&#x75;&#x67;&#x73;&#x62;&#x75;rg&#46;&#101;&#100;&#117;\">&#x73;&#99;h&#x75;&#115;t&#x65;&#97;&#64;&#x61;&#x75;&#103;&#x73;&#x62;&#117;r&#x67;&#46;e&#x64;&#117;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early August, two of the three remaining elm trees in Augsburg\u2019s quad were removed in an effort to save &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[469,506,464,463,462,468,498,465,505],"class_list":["post-46522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arboretum","tag-art","tag-dutch-elm","tag-elm","tag-quad","tag-tom-peter","tag-trees","tag-wood","tag-wood-turning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46522"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46553,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46522\/revisions\/46553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}