(Student Submission) Medium: Markers and Micron Pens Artist Statement: In this piece, I tried going for empathy and imagination in challenging times by imagining Covid-19 as a monster that one might imagine lurking in their closet. How our minds can
Tag: Visual Arts
Margot Schassler – Untitled
(Student Submission) Theme: Identity, Agency and Optimism in a Pandemic Medium: Watercolor Artist Statement: Walking to class one day during A-Term of my freshman year, I took a picture of The Innovation Studio. I thought the reflection of the clouds
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
Mitra Anand – Save the Treasure
(Student Submission) Theme: Caretaking Medium: Acrylic Artist Statement: This acrylic art is of an old woman with a beaming smile. She is of wrinkled skin and has almost no teeth, yet shows a sign of ultimate happiness. Many countries have
ML Tlachac – Silhouette with a Cell Phone
(Student Submission) Theme: Alone Together Artist Statement: Silhouette with a Cell Phone is the embodiment of the COVID-19 based theme Alone Together. Set on a normally crowded beach, the silhouette in the distance is seemingly enduring the stormy weather alone.
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
Soroush Farzin – The Waltz of Sadness
(Faculty Submission) Theme: Empathy and Imagination in Challenging Times Medium: Animation Artist Statement: The submitted work is an effort to depict the sorrow of our community due to COVID-19. Isolated in our homes, we try to stay connected in
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
Natalie Milgram – Untitled
(Student Submission) Theme: Identity, Agency, and Optimism in a Pandemic Artist Statement: I painted this in response to the theme: Identity, Agency, and Optimism in a Pandemic. Like many humans, I’ve found isolation challenging at times. There have been some
Natalie Milgram – Untitled
(Student Submission) Theme: Human Connection in a Virtual World Artist Statement: I painted this in response to the theme: Human Connection in a Virtual World. Even before this pandemic, I’ve observed technology taking over our human interactions. I miss talking