(Student Submission) Theme: Home Medium: Digital Illustration Artist Statement: For this piece, I chose to focus on the theme of ‘Home’ during the Covid-19 pandemic. What home means has shifted dramatically for everyone in many different ways during these last
Category: Submissions
Isabelle Mellor – Jacket
(Student Submission) Themes: Identity, Agency, and Optimism in a Pandemic; Human Connection in a Virtual World Artist Statement: I decided to paint my leather jacket when I purchased tickets for a band’s reunion tour in C term. I wanted to
Jeff Caglarcan – Minor Swing
(Staff Submission) Theme: Identity, Agency, and Optimism in a Pandemic Artist Statement: The music and associated video were recorded during the first weeks of the quarantine, during the strictest period of the lockdown. For years I had been meaning
JJ D’Onofrio – Photography and Visual Art
(Public Submission) Theme: Home My art has always been an avenue for healing and understanding within myself. The mechanics involved in processing the events in my life are hinged on seemingly innocuous moments that on the surface are without drama
Julia Pope – Intertwined
(Student Submission) Theme: Ourselves in the World Artist Statement: In the midst of quarantine, we lose touch with the outside world, primarily nature. The closure of state parks and trails caused us to become confined to our homes and more
Julia Toplyn – Untitled
(Student Submission) Theme: Community in Isolation Artist Statement: Many of my family members, myself included, had a birthday that occurred during COVID, and like many we were unable to celebrate with our regular cookouts and a beach weekend. So, we
Karen Sharpe – Other Voices
(Staff Submission) Theme: None Artist Statement: Pre-pandemic, I was on the road a lot, which made it sometimes difficult to regularly practice my art, which is poetry. I work with a group of poets near Boston nearly every other
Kate McIntyre – Untitled
(Faculty Submission) Theme: Home Medium: Watercolor Artist Statement: While in normal times I’m a fiction writer, during the monotony of quarantine, I started to find myself craving color. This spring, I took a Zoom watercolor class through the Worcester Art
Kavitha Anand – A Paused Clock
(Public submission) Theme: Before/After COVID Artist Statement: We, humans, have changed a lot along with the changing world. We all have become technology slaves, social media addicts, workaholics and have started to ignore our families, emotional quotients and even basic
Kavitha Anand – Breathe
(Public Submission) Theme: Optimism in a Pandemic Artist Statement: This poem is a tribute the great soldiers called as health workers who have worked round the clock during this pandemic, around the much feared COVID patients with no complaint. It