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Susanne Slavick’s artwork for the Diversity Billboard Art Project was mounted on a billboard at Pittsburgh Street and Highland Avenue in Greensburg.
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Ginger Brooks Takahashi’s original artwork for the Diversity Billboard Art Project is seen in The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg.
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Two artists will discuss their involvement in the Diversity Billboard Art Project during a Jan. 14 virtual conversation hosted by The Westmoreland Museum of American Art.
Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Susanne Slavick are among 10 artists whose original commissioned work has appeared on billboards across Westmoreland County in a public art campaign titled “Make Our Differences Our Strengths,” curated by the museum and the Westmoreland Diversity Coalition.
How to Diversify Trump County
Brentin Mock, Bloomberg, December 11, 2020
When driving from Pittsburgh to its deep eastern suburbs, you know you’ve arrived in Westmoreland County when you see the farms with the massive Trump campaign displays, some as elaborate as Christmas Nativity yard scenes. Indeed, there is an entire Trump House. The county is reliably Republican and overwhelmingly white roughly 95% white compared to 2.4% Black and 2.8% “Other.” When Trump alarmed voters that Democrats and socialists were coming to doom the suburbs, this county was the kind of place he envisioned saving. He won it in November with 63.46% of the vote, which was 2 percentage points less than he won it with in 2016.