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Yoko Ono’s "IMAGINE PEACE" billboard in Youngstown, Ohio, June, '09 - 43
Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE BILLBOARD
June 26
Downtown Youngstown
at the corner of Wick Avenue and Wood Street
sponsored by the The McDonough Museum of Art
Yoko Ono's IMAGINE PEACE BILLBOARD
NE PEACE BILLBOARD press release
A new version of Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE billboard is installed in downtown Youngstown at the corner of Wick Avenue and Wood Street. The McDonough Museum of Art on the Campus of Youngstown State University is the sponsor of this project.
During the past forty years, billboards urging peace have been an important component of Yoko Ono’s artwork. The initial use of billboard space as a medium to foster peace occurred in 1969 when Ono and John Lennon placed WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT billboards in several major cities across the United States and Europe. More recently, Yoko Ono transformed the WAR IS OVER! message of 1969 into the universally positive statement IMAGINE PEACE. Previous installations of this message featured the text in black Helvetica typeface on a stark white background. This past winter in Washington D.C., Ono unveiled a redesign of the IMAGINE PEACE billboard that places the white Helvetica typeface on a sky blue background with a cloud underneath the text on the left side. It is this design that is installed in downtown Youngstown.
This is the third Yoko Ono billboard sponsored by the McDonough, a continued commitment on the part of the Museum to the work and message of this important artist. Previous billboards appeared in 2007 IMAGINE PEACE in support of The University of Akron’s Emily Davis Gallery exhibit YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE: featuring John and Yoko’s Year of Peace and 2008 WAR IS OVER! as part of the McDonough exhibition AGENCY: Art and Advertising.
The McDonough Museum will be distributing pins that feature the design of the billboard. Pins will be available at the Museum beginning June 30th and during Youngstown State University’s Summer Festival of the Arts, July 11 & 12. Quantity is limited.
The McDonough Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00am until 4:00pm with extended evening hours on Wednesday night till 8:00pm. The Museum is free and open to the public. For further information please call 330.941.1400.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program or organization with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
BILLBOARD INSTALLATION IMAGES
imaginepeace.com/archives/7379
Yoko Ono’s "IMAGINE PEACE" billboard in Youngstown, Ohio, June, '09 - 43
Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE BILLBOARD
June 26
Downtown Youngstown
at the corner of Wick Avenue and Wood Street
sponsored by the The McDonough Museum of Art
Yoko Ono's IMAGINE PEACE BILLBOARD
NE PEACE BILLBOARD press release
A new version of Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE billboard is installed in downtown Youngstown at the corner of Wick Avenue and Wood Street. The McDonough Museum of Art on the Campus of Youngstown State University is the sponsor of this project.
During the past forty years, billboards urging peace have been an important component of Yoko Ono’s artwork. The initial use of billboard space as a medium to foster peace occurred in 1969 when Ono and John Lennon placed WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT billboards in several major cities across the United States and Europe. More recently, Yoko Ono transformed the WAR IS OVER! message of 1969 into the universally positive statement IMAGINE PEACE. Previous installations of this message featured the text in black Helvetica typeface on a stark white background. This past winter in Washington D.C., Ono unveiled a redesign of the IMAGINE PEACE billboard that places the white Helvetica typeface on a sky blue background with a cloud underneath the text on the left side. It is this design that is installed in downtown Youngstown.
This is the third Yoko Ono billboard sponsored by the McDonough, a continued commitment on the part of the Museum to the work and message of this important artist. Previous billboards appeared in 2007 IMAGINE PEACE in support of The University of Akron’s Emily Davis Gallery exhibit YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE: featuring John and Yoko’s Year of Peace and 2008 WAR IS OVER! as part of the McDonough exhibition AGENCY: Art and Advertising.
The McDonough Museum will be distributing pins that feature the design of the billboard. Pins will be available at the Museum beginning June 30th and during Youngstown State University’s Summer Festival of the Arts, July 11 & 12. Quantity is limited.
The McDonough Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00am until 4:00pm with extended evening hours on Wednesday night till 8:00pm. The Museum is free and open to the public. For further information please call 330.941.1400.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program or organization with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
BILLBOARD INSTALLATION IMAGES
imaginepeace.com/archives/7379