{"id":254,"date":"2012-03-02T10:34:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/?p=254"},"modified":"2012-04-26T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:39:37","slug":"george-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/george-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"George Butler: Ambassador from across the pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHis accent isn\u2019t the only thing that makes George Butler stand out on campus. The 23-year-old Coventry, (Warwickshire) England native has phenomenal artist talent that has garnered him numerous recognitions and awards.<\/p>\n

Butler studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London before stumbling across a comical YouTube video<\/a> of Southern Arkansas University featuring the President\u2019s Ambassadors and the Mulerider Express (the limousine golf cart that transports visitors during tours of the campus.)<\/p>\n

Butler started communicating with a couple of the ambassadors, sparking his desire to learn more about the university. Now, the junior studio art major is a President\u2019s Ambassador himself, which frequently puts him behind the wheel of the Mulerider Express that started it all. He loves showing the campus to visitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the best decision of my life,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to get involved in campus activities. They gave me my very own art studio, which is something I never had in London.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for that impressive list of awards, Butler earned his first at the age of three when his teacher noticed a remarkable talent and entered his \u201cMommy With Lipstick\u201d painting into a competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI carried on from there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His original work \u201cPuppet on a String\u201d landed him his favorite and most prestigious award from a competition sponsored by the Children\u2019s Commissioner of London. His work was chosen out of thousands of entries.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the master Leonardo daVinci, Butler enjoys a variety of classes, but admits that his favorite is art history.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have great facilities \u2013 a room dedicated to printmaking and a studio for ceramics,\u201d he said. \u201cIt really makes it great. I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His accent isn\u2019t the only thing that makes George Butler stand out on campus. The 23-year-old Coventry, (Warwickshire) England native has phenomenal artist talent that has garnered him numerous recognitions and awards. Butler studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London before stumbling across a comical YouTube video of Southern Arkansas University featuring… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10489],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-student-spotlight","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}