{"id":98027,"date":"2000-03-22T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2000-03-22T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=98027"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:50:15","slug":"alison-hill-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/alison-hill-spencer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Hill Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"666\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonhspencerart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"119\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/alison-spencer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-98028\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/alison-spencer-350x258.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/alison-spencer-350x258.png 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/alison-spencer-768x566.png 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/alison-spencer.png 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Alison Hill Spencer<\/strong> <\/a>is a Utah painter whose current body of work centers on wildlife portraiture, with a focus on the birds who inhabit Utah\u2019s lakes and surrounding wetlands. Raised in a family that traveled widely in search of birds\u2014from marshes close to home to habitats around the world\u2014she learned early that the species in Utah are as extraordinary as any found elsewhere. Spencer\u2019s work asks viewers to look closely at the animals that depend on our region\u2019s fragile ecosystems, especially as development places new pressures on habitat and ecological balance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"668\" data-end=\"901\">Spencer earned her BFA from Utah Valley University in 2023. She lives in the foothills of Utah with her family, where she divides her time between painting, writing, and exploring the landscape she finds both beautiful and imperiled.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"903\" data-end=\"947\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Hill Spencer is a Utah painter whose current body of work centers on wildlife portraiture, with a focus on the birds who inhabit Utah\u2019s lakes and surrounding wetlands. Raised in a family that traveled widely in search of birds\u2014from marshes close to home to habitats around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1645,"featured_media":98028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,127],"tags":[4767],"class_list":["post-98027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting","category-utah-artists-s","tag-alison-hill-spencer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/alison-spencer.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 07:08:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98029,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98027\/revisions\/98029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}