{"id":10982,"date":"2022-08-19T18:43:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10982"},"modified":"2024-11-05T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:52:09","slug":"reggie-agyen-boateng-21-anchors-hennepin-ave-public-art-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/19\/reggie-agyen-boateng-21-anchors-hennepin-ave-public-art-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggie Agyen-Boateng \u201921 Anchors Hennepin Ave Public Art Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10983\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/08\/RAB-htt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10983 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/08\/RAB-htt-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"A young man stands with his back to the camera looking up at a billboard photograph of a Black journalist with one fist raised\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/08\/RAB-htt-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/08\/RAB-htt-768x955.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/08\/RAB-htt-823x1024.jpg 823w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/08\/RAB-htt.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Instagram: @kusi_photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Towering over Hennepin Avenue, the black-and-white photograph of a journalist with fist raised stops people in their tracks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The artist behind this complex, arresting image? Reggie Agyen-Boateng \u201921.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Agyen-Boateng majored in sociology at Augsburg and now works professionally under the name <span class=\"s2\">Kusi Photography<\/span>. He is one of seven artists featured in \u201cIt\u2019s the People,\u201d a public art installation in downtown Minneapolis coordinated by the Hennepin Theatre Trust. His portrait of independent journalist King Demetrius Pendleton was chosen to anchor the project with a multi-story billboard on 900 Hennepin Avenue for the next year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy participation in \u201cIt\u2019s the People\u201d is my way of honoring the countless victims who have lost their lives to police violence,\u201d said Agyen-Boateng in his <span class=\"s2\">artist statement<\/span>. \u201cIt also allows me to give back to my community in a meaningful way after the suffering that Minnesota has endured over the years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWorking with King Demetrius Pendleton to capture his lived history in a single portrait challenged me to think about the complex layers and intersectionality of Black identities and lived experiences. This way of examining identity moved my work as an artist forward into new territory. It also became a way to document and truth-tell through images.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Now in its fourth year, the 2022 project also features large-scale photos of<i> <\/i>theatre artists, arts leaders creating programming with youth experiencing homelessness, concert venue staff, Indigenous restauranteurs, student artists, and queer leaders. <span class=\"s2\">Learn more about \u201cIt\u2019s the People\u201d from Hennepin Theatre Trust<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Congratulations, Reggie!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towering over Hennepin Avenue, the black-and-white photograph of a journalist with fist raised stops people in their tracks.\u00a0 The artist behind this complex, arresting image? Reggie Agyen-Boateng \u201921. Agyen-Boateng majored in sociology at Augsburg and now works professionally under the name Kusi Photography. He is one of seven artists featured in \u201cIt\u2019s the People,\u201d a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3228],"tags":[128,208],"class_list":["post-10982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-kudos","tag-alumni-2","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11604,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions\/11604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}