{"id":228,"date":"2025-03-25T20:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2025-06-04T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:10:12","slug":"panadamania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/panadamania\/","title":{"rendered":"Panadamania!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2004 I was lucky enough to be accepted as one of the artists to paint a panda for the the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dcarts.dc.gov\/\">DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities<\/a> Pandamania DC exhibit. Titled &#8220;The Garden Variety Panda&#8221; my panda featured flowers, butterflies, plants and patterns found in nature.  It was on exhibit at the Benning Road Metro Station until the auction where all of the pandas were auctioned off.  A wonderful book displaying all of the pandas was produced. This was a fun and exciting project that I&#8217;ll never forget. I would love to see my panda today, hopefully in nature enjoying life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a website that has a little more information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schuminweb.com\/photography\/pandamania-dc\/\">https:\/\/www.schuminweb.com\/photography\/pandamania-dc\/<\/a> and you can find the Pandamania website on the way back machine <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050212084645\/http:\/\/www.pandamaniadc.org\/\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050212084645\/http:\/\/www.pandamaniadc.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TheGardenVarietyPanda-1024x853.jpg\" alt=\"The Garden Variety Panda by Patricia Leith Kouttab\" class=\"wp-image-229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TheGardenVarietyPanda-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TheGardenVarietyPanda-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TheGardenVarietyPanda-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TheGardenVarietyPanda-600x500.jpg 600w, https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TheGardenVarietyPanda.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/panadamaniaDClogo-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"Pandamania DC Logo\" class=\"wp-image-231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/panadamaniaDClogo-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/panadamaniaDClogo-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/panadamaniaDClogo-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/panadamaniaDClogo-600x418.jpg 600w, https:\/\/patriciakouttab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/panadamaniaDClogo.jpg 1192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 I was lucky enough to be accepted as one of the artists to paint a panda for the the\u00a0DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Pandamania DC exhibit. 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