{"id":10577,"date":"2021-07-02T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10577"},"modified":"2021-11-09T20:32:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:32:58","slug":"billboards-by-augsburg-alumni-featured-in-pioneer-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/02\/billboards-by-augsburg-alumni-featured-in-pioneer-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Billboards by Augsburg Alumni Featured in Pioneer Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6553 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Pioneer-Press-logo-300x68.png\" alt=\"Pioneer Press logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Pioneer-Press-logo-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Pioneer-Press-logo.png 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Augsburg alumni Olivia House \u201920 and Silent Fox \u201918 were featured in the Pioneer Press story <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2021\/07\/01\/billboards-twin-cities-racial-justice-augsburg-alums\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBillboards across Twin Cities by Augsburg alums promote call for racial justice\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on July 1. House and Fox are creators of billboards that memorialize George Floyd and other Black people murdered due to police violence. The billboards will be on display in 30 Twin Cities-area locations through mid-July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House and Fox worked in partnership with copywriter Jalen Cannon. The project was made possible by a grant from the Saint Paul &amp; Minnesota Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sun Current also ran a story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hometownsource.com\/sun_current\/community\/richfield\/after-growing-up-in-richfield-artist-collaborates-on-racial-justice-billboards\/article_07db3e46-df4e-11eb-b3ed-0724622100d4.html\">&#8220;After growing up in Richfield, artist collaborates on racial justice billboards,&#8221;<\/a> which focused on House&#8217;s work on the billboard campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg alumni Olivia House \u201920 and Silent Fox \u201918 were featured in the Pioneer Press story \u201cBillboards across Twin Cities by Augsburg alums promote call for racial justice\u201d on July 1. House and Fox are creators of billboards that memorialize George Floyd and other Black people murdered due to police violence. The billboards will be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10721,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577\/revisions\/10721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}