{"id":759539,"date":"2026-07-13T02:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759539\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:12:21","slug":"ashland-unveils-new-sculpture-kobi-tv-nbc5-koti-tv-nbc2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759539\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashland unveils new sculpture &#8211; KOBI-TV NBC5 \/ KOTI-TV NBC2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    \u00b7<\/p>\n<p>\n                        July 11, 2026 at 12:30 pm\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>ASHLAND, Ore. \u2013 Ashland is celebrating a decades-long international friendship with the unveiling of a new public art installation. A new heart sculpture is on display right outside the entrance to Lithia Park.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second piece in the \u201cHearts of Guanajuato\u201d art installation, celebrating 56 years of friendship between Ashland and its sister city, Guanajuato, Mexico. The sister-city relationship has long focused on cultural, educational, and community exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>The first heart sculpture was installed on the Southern Oregon University campus last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates from the Mexican sister city will be able to see the new sculpture on their annual visit to Ashland this month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.9rem;font-style: italic;\">\u00a9 2026 KOBI-TV NBC5. All rights reserved unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00b7 July 11, 2026 at 12:30 pm ASHLAND, Ore. \u2013 Ashland is celebrating a decades-long international friendship with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[147948,228,226,227,47980,325184,325185,229,88,325186,325187,325188,65971,325189,13937,325190,273622,273623],"class_list":["post-759539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art-installation","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ashland","tag-ashland-public-arts","tag-calle-guanajuato","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-guanajuato-mexico","tag-hearts-of-guanajuato","tag-international-friendship","tag-jackson-county","tag-lithia-park","tag-public-art","tag-sister-cities","tag-sou","tag-southern-oregon-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}