{"id":38644,"date":"2019-09-20T15:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T19:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=38644"},"modified":"2019-09-24T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:17:26","slug":"shepard-fairey-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2019\/09\/shepard-fairey-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepard Fairey Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38694\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38694\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38694\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DAAP-showcase-e1569341697476.jpg\" alt=\"Fairey Showcase outside the DAAP Library\" width=\"575\" height=\"393\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fairey Showcase outside the DAAP Library<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art and Planning presents an exhibit highlighting the works of Shepard Fairey.<\/p>\n<p>Best known for his iconic \u201cHOPE\u201d portrait utilized in Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 presidential campaign, and the equally striking \u201cOBEY\u201d poster inspired by 1988 classic,\u00a0They Live, Shepard Fairey has established a sterling reputation as one of the most influential street artists of the century.\u00a0 Debuting in 1984 detailing skateboards and creating t-shirt prints, Fairey graduated with a Bachelor in the Fine Arts in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992 and founded his company, OBEY Clothing, in 2001.\u00a0 Since 2002, Fairey has bent his talents toward a number of charitable and political causes, making substantial donations to organizations such as the ACLU and Feeding America in addition to creating the OBEY Awareness line of clothing, the proceeds of which are entirely donated to relevant causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art and Planning presents an exhibit highlighting the works of Shepard Fairey. Best known for his iconic \u201cHOPE\u201d portrait utilized in Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 presidential campaign, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2019\/09\/shepard-fairey-showcase\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[867,19],"class_list":["post-38644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daap-news","tag-book-display","tag-exhibits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}