{"id":8574,"date":"2018-08-10T20:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2018-08-10T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T22:04:00","slug":"8574","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/10\/8574\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Sweeney&#8217;s Swedish picture book project highlighted at Twin Cities PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8575\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-10-at-3.29.03-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8575 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-10-at-3.29.03-PM-300x156.png\" alt=\"Tara Sweeney painting.\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-10-at-3.29.03-PM-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-10-at-3.29.03-PM-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-10-at-3.29.03-PM.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Sweeney on TPT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Twin Cities PBS\u00a0featured retired Augsburg art professor Tara Sweeney&#8217;s collaborative &#8220;A to Z\u00e5\u00e4o&#8221; picture book project at the American Swedish Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA to Z\u00e5\u00e4\u00f6,\u201d is a Swedish alphabet book that features paintings of objects and stories from the historic Swedish-American immigrant experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe objects are the things that immigrants brought to Minnesota and I have to believe they were traveling pretty light. So they brought things that meant something to them and\/or they were useful, so they\u2019re loaded with stories.\u201d Sweeney told TPT&#8217;s Minnesota Original art series.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney\u00a0credits\u00a0her 25 years of service at Augsburg and its institutional mission for influencing her interest in developing a picture book that speaks to historic and contemporary immigrant experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpt.org\/post\/artist-tara-sweeney\/\">View the segment at Twin Cities PBS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin Cities PBS\u00a0featured retired Augsburg art professor Tara Sweeney&#8217;s collaborative &#8220;A to Z\u00e5\u00e4o&#8221; picture book project at the American Swedish Institute. \u201cA to Z\u00e5\u00e4\u00f6,\u201d is a Swedish alphabet book that features paintings of objects and stories from the historic Swedish-American immigrant experience. \u201cThe objects are the things that immigrants brought to Minnesota and I have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8584,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions\/8584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}