Soldier

Suzanne Opton and Susan Reynolds would like to thank the following organizations who made this project possible:

• Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
• MCA Denver
• DiverseWorks Art Space
• Forecast PublicArt
• The Sanctuary for Independent Media
• CrossCurrents Foundation
• The Fledgling Fund
• The Nathan Cummings Foundation
• Chad Shepherd and Skylab, The Shelf
• The Soldier Billboards are a project
  with fiscal sponsorship from the New York Foundation for the Arts

Press Release:

• Photographs of Soldiers coming to D.C.

Press:

• 100 Words: Suzanne Opton's Soldier Billboard Project npr.org 3/18/2010
• Soldier Photos Spark Comments on Metro My Fox DC 3/12/2010
• Suzanne Opton: SOLDIER Billboard Project Atlanta Contemporary 9/15/2008
• Suzanne Opton's "Soldier's Face": After the billboards Culture Monster, LA Times 9/15/2008
• Suzanne Opton: Soldiers argusvlinder.web-log.nl 9/6/2008
• Clear Channel Has The Balls CBS Doesn't… Hair Balls, Houston Press 9/4/2008
• "Soldier Billboard Project" refuse sur les panneaux… Les cahiers d'Alain Truong 9/3/2008
• Billboard Co. Says No to Soldier Portraits in St. Paul PDNPulse 9/2/2008
• Battles Over Billboard Space Precede G.O.P. Gathering New York Times 8/30/2008
• CBS Outdoor Pull "Soldier" Billboards during RNC Rhizome at the New Museum 8/29/2008
• War-Themed Billboard Art Canceled in Minneapolis Artnet.com, NY, Art News 8/28/2008
• Iraq War Billboard Protest Censored in Minneapolis BrushFire social change arts & culture 8/28/2008
• Billboards of US soldiers cancelled in city of Republican Convention Guardian.co.uk 8/28/2008
• Photographer of Soldiers Denied Billboard Space in St. Paul Thomas Jefferson Center 8/27/2008
• Firm cancels soldier billboard United Press International 8/27/2008
• Photography and Shared Territories—Soldier Lens Culture
• The UnConvention projects

Interviews:

• Washington DC metro station interviews

Other Media:

• The Untold War: Inside the hearts,
  minds, and souls of our soldiers by Nancy Sherman