{"id":12779,"date":"2022-05-18T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/?p=12779&preview=true&preview_id=12779"},"modified":"2022-08-24T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:22:34","slug":"commencement-2022-grads-giant-hugging-urns-are-a-tribute-to-earlhams-trans-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/news-events\/commencement-2022-grads-giant-hugging-urns-are-a-tribute-to-earlhams-trans-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2022: Grad’s giant ‘hugging urns’ are a tribute to Earlham’s trans community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
JB Jarvi-Beamer was an intern at a community art studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, when he first heard about Earlham College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy mentors told me I should come here, and I applied because I trusted them,\u201d said Jarvi-Beamer, a studio art major with a concentration in ceramics, metals and 3D fabrication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n