  {"id":6248,"date":"2025-10-17T10:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:37:14","slug":"mandy-buchanan-a-life-painted-in-sunshine-closing-reception-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/mandy-buchanan-a-life-painted-in-sunshine-closing-reception-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandy Buchanan: A Life Painted in Sunshine Closing Reception photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥\u2019s Eula Bass Lewis Art Gallery featured the works of Mandy Buchanan recently thanks to the friends and family members pictured below, left to right, Scott and Suzy Walker (cousin of Mandy), George Bassi (Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Gallery Director), Mica Stevens, Adam and Casey Sauls, Sam and George Buchanan, (Mandy\u2019s sons), Julie Kuykendall (mother of Mandy), Julie and Mark Brown (friends of Mandy &amp; JC art instructor), Melanie Eubanks (JC Art Gallery Director &amp; Art instructor), Carl (Mandy\u2019s husband) and Gina Buchanan, Jade Yoder, and Ginger and Fred Walters, loaned Mandy&#8217;s artwork to share in a special tribute to the artist in an exhibit personified by her life, \u201cpainted in sunshine.\u201d Not pictured are contributors Adam Trest and Casey Watts.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-friends-and-art-contributors-to-mandy-buchanan-art-exhibit2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-friends-and-art-contributors-to-mandy-buchanan-art-exhibit2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-friends-and-art-contributors-to-mandy-buchanan-art-exhibit2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-friends-and-art-contributors-to-mandy-buchanan-art-exhibit2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-friends-and-art-contributors-to-mandy-buchanan-art-exhibit2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-friends-and-art-contributors-to-mandy-buchanan-art-exhibit2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mandy Buchanan\u2019s cousin Suzy Walker (center right) and friend Julie Brown (center left) helped coordinate the exhibit featuring Buchanan\u2019s artwork and shared stories about Buchanan and her sunny personality which was reflected in the artwork from about 10 families who cherished her artwork and loaned it for the exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-julie-brown-and-suzy-walker-sharing-about-mandy-buchanan-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-julie-brown-and-suzy-walker-sharing-about-mandy-buchanan-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-julie-brown-and-suzy-walker-sharing-about-mandy-buchanan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-julie-brown-and-suzy-walker-sharing-about-mandy-buchanan-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-julie-brown-and-suzy-walker-sharing-about-mandy-buchanan-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ws-julie-brown-and-suzy-walker-sharing-about-mandy-buchanan-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥\u2019s Eula Bass Lewis Art Gallery featured the works of Mandy Buchanan recently thanks to the friends and family members pictured below, left to right, Scott and Suzy Walker (cousin of Mandy), George Bassi (Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Gallery Director), Mica Stevens, Adam and Casey Sauls, Sam and George Buchanan, (Mandy\u2019s sons), Julie &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/mandy-buchanan-a-life-painted-in-sunshine-closing-reception-photos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mandy Buchanan: A Life Painted in Sunshine Closing Reception photos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}