7 SEA (Socially Engaged Art) Project: Covid #1
Covid Group #1
Overview of Our Project
For our project we wanted to incorporate feedback from our classmates about the impacts we all felt from Covid-19. We wanted to do it through art. Our group was focused on Covid-19 and we felt that the only way we could have our project resonate well was to have our art based around communal feedback and collect the most popular responses. The prompt to our project was “Out of all the negative impacts of COVID, what were the positives that you got out of it?”. We wanted to contrast the harsh statistics from the last year or so and to provide some hope and learnable lessons that can help us all grow as we hopefully exit this dark period.
Description of ART
The reason we decided to do two different pieces of art was to push our message of positivity through symbolism. The first piece of art is a dark cloud that is made from the words of all the negativity that COVID has brought upon these times. COVID has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and impacted billions more. We listed all the negatives and asked the audience to share their positives they were grateful for from the past year. We turn the positives into a shape of sunshine that is overcoming the dark cloud (negatives) to symbolize that positives always outweigh the negatives.
Lessons Learned
Throughout this project, there were a couple things we should keep in mind after this work. Art helps symbolize and display work and messages especially in the theme of peace and harmony. People would use art as a way to express their feelings and mood during times like these. People may view or take in different messages through the art, demonstrating the power and versatility of art. Covid impacted everyone in different ways and responded or coped with it in various ways.
Reflection
For the future, I believe that to engage in this type of work and to make sure this project goes more seamlessly you have to be able to Communicate with your classmates effectively and efficiently. You also have to finish your work on time so you don’t hold your group back while also consistently meeting with your peers on-time and ready. Last but not least you must communicate with your professor effectively.
Covid Statististics
- The economy is now a significant source of stress for 70% of Americans
- The government’s response to the crisis is causing stress to 67% of Americans
- More than one-third of Americans have displayed clinical signs of anxiety, depression, or both since the coronavirus pandemic began
- Nearly one-in-five Americans say they have had a physical reaction when thinking about the outbreak
- Pandemic stress is significantly higher in young people
- Vaccine Rollout as of Mar 15: Total Distributed: 3,132,270. Total Administered: 2,626,048
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