{"id":362632,"date":"2025-12-21T22:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362632\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:55:13","slug":"west-african-sculpture-unveiled-at-the-dreamers-garden-in-gainesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362632\/","title":{"rendered":"West African sculpture unveiled at the Dreamer\u2019s Garden in Gainesville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Tree huggers and art aficionados linked together today to unveil a new West African sculpture at the Dreamer\u2019s Garden in Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There was food, live music, and other West African performers and speakers to honor African culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The artwork is called \u2018Nommo\u2019 \u2014 a wrought iron sculpture by local artist and blacksmith Yaw Owusu Shangofemi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The art was inspired by the Gullah Geechee culture of West Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nommo are ancestral spirits, revered by the Dogon people of Mali for their life-giving powers, often depicted as amphibious or fish-like creatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Back in 2024, Shangofemi\u2019s \u201cGate of the muses for Ray Charles\u201d became the garden\u2019s entry gate. The piece is decorated with musical notes and piano keys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Tree huggers and art aficionados linked together today to unveil a new West African&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1926,228,226,227,229,118042,88,18211,178759,19846,216,178756,178758,178760,178755,178757,22192],"class_list":["post-362632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-africa","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-drums","tag-entertainment","tag-fish","tag-keys","tag-live","tag-music","tag-nommo","tag-piano","tag-powers","tag-shangofemi","tag-spirits","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}