{"id":12309,"date":"2016-02-13T15:58:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T23:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12309"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:39","slug":"12309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=12309","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12311 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BillboardCreative10edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BillboardCreative10edit.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BillboardCreative10edit-96x80.jpg 96w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BillboardCreative10edit-450x374.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Being stuck in traffic is an unpleasant experience, and few cities know this better than Los Angeles.<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> Famous for its infuriating stop-and-go gridlock, an innovative project hopes to ease the pain of being stuck in a car. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">The <span class=\"s3\">Billboard Creative<\/span> is a nonprofit that takes unused and remnant billboards and turns them into public art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Billboard Creative rotates artists and curators by creating month-long shows. Mona Kuhn is the curator behind this current 33-billboard iteration, and she chose the works\u2014which feature photography, painting and sculpture\u2014 she selected pieces based on how they would integrate into the locations and types of traffic, be it slow or gridlocked.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The public art project is open to everyone, with\u00a0an <span class=\"s2\">open call<\/span>\u00a0for submissions.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">(<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #339966;\" title=\"DIVA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mymodernmet.com\/profiles\/blogs\/the-billboard-creative?context=tag-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BillboardCreative10edit.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12309 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;LA Billboard Art&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\u00a0<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12310 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BillboardCreative1edit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BillboardCreative1edit.png 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BillboardCreative1edit-96x80.png 96w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BillboardCreative1edit-450x374.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Billboard Creative is a nonprofit that takes unused and remnant billboards in Los Angeles, and turns them into public art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropocene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18261,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions\/18261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}