{"id":38453,"date":"2021-05-02T08:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T15:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=38453"},"modified":"2021-05-02T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T03:18:09","slug":"passing-of-william-t-wiley-a-founder-of-funk-art-an-educator-integral-to-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2021\/05\/02\/passing-of-william-t-wiley-a-founder-of-funk-art-an-educator-integral-to-bay-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing of William T Wiley,  A Founder of Funk Art, An Educator, Integral to Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1aaathisisjustatest72-e1619970688343.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1aaathisisjustatest72-e1619970688343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"488\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38459\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(This is Just a Test, 1972)<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_38457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38457\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1aaaWTWDatebook7-e1619970147136.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1aaaWTWDatebook7-e1619970147136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38457\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist\/sculptor William Wiley as he appeared in an interview at his Woodacre, Calif. studio with the San Francisco Chronicle on Jan. 8, 1996.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/datebook.sfchronicle.com\/art-exhibits\/william-wiley-multi-faceted-artist-and-educator-integral-to-bay-area-art-scene-dies-at-83\">via)<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/news\/william-t-wiley-a-founder-of-the-bay-area-funk-art-movement-and-influential-art-teacher-has-died-aged-83\">Willism Wiley a Founder of Funk Art &#038; Art Teacher has died aged 83<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a UC Davis graduate student, Bruce Nauman was among the young artists whom Wiley took under his wing, and the two would become close friends who frequently pushed each other to explore the outer limits of their creative capabilities. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cHe was a wonderful spirit and I watched his work from the beginning when he was an Abstract Expressionist painter,\u201d Thiebaud, who is now 100, told The Chronicle in a phone interview. \u201cWe disagreed all the time and still liked each other. He was a real gentleman and a lovely person.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/william-t-wiley-funk-artist-dead-1234591313\/\">Passing of William T Wiley <\/a> (Art News)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamtwiley.com\/\">William T Wiley homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1aaaShipsLog69-e1619970980835.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1aaaShipsLog69-e1619970980835.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"784\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38461\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Ship&#8217;s Log, 1969)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is Just a Test, 1972) (via) Willism Wiley a Founder of Funk Art &#038; Art Teacher has died aged 83 As a UC Davis graduate student, Bruce Nauman was among the young artists whom Wiley took under his wing, and the two would become close friends who frequently pushed each other to explore the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2021\/05\/02\/passing-of-william-t-wiley-a-founder-of-funk-art-an-educator-integral-to-bay-area\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Passing of William T Wiley,  A Founder of Funk Art, An Educator, Integral to Bay Area&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}