Santa Monica, CA
2020
Sue Peck
Collecting Community History Initiative Digital Archives, Autry Museum; MSA.64.1.159
“The COVID-19 experience has inspired me to create art for the first time in 38 years. These are my contributions.”
During early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place orders (SIPO), people across the American West grappled with angst and frustration with the pandemic’s restrictions. To express their feelings, they took to various artistic mediums such as photography, paint, digital media, and even their masks. This creativity displayed not only their individuality but also their solidarity with communities near and far.
Unless otherwise noted, all works in this exhibition were submitted by the originator and are part of the Community Collecting History Initiative (CCHI) digital archive at the Autry Museum.
Coronavirus Essential Workers, Santa Rosa, CA
2020
John Deckert
Santa Rosa, CA, 2020
Collecting Community History Initiative Digital Archives, Autry Museum; MSA.64.1.90
“I have been taking photographs of people still at work while the Shelter in Place Orders are in effect. These photographs have been used as reference material for small paintings.”
Coronavirus Essential Workers, Santa Rosa, CA
2020
John Deckert
Collecting Community History Initiative Digital Archives, Autry Museum; MSA.64.1.90
“I have been taking photographs of people still at work while the Shelter in Place Orders are in effect. These photographs have been used as reference material for small paintings.”
Coronavirus Essential Workers, Santa Rosa, CA
2020
John Deckert
Collecting Community History Initiative Digital Archives, Autry Museum; MSA.64.1.90
“I have been taking photographs of people still at work while the Shelter in Place Orders are in effect. These photographs have been used as reference material for small paintings.”
Coronavirus essentials, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Mandee Johnson
Collecting Community History Initiative Digital Archives, Autry Museum; MSA.64.1.90
“For many, the lived experience of this pandemic does not afford many accommodations for hopes for the future. Our lawmakers on the local, state, and federal levels continue to show how they only care about the wealthy and will all march to the oligarchy drumbeat in lockstep. I hope I will someday live in a country that taxes the rich to give decent wages, paid time off, sick leave, Medicare, free education, and so much more to the working class. But to be honest, I’m not really holding my breath—these were problems before the pandemic; we can just see them more clearly now.”
Coronavirus essentials, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Mandee Johnson
Collecting Community History Initiative Digital Archives, Autry Museum; MSA.64.1.108
“For many, the lived experience of this pandemic does not afford many accommodations for hopes for the future. Our lawmakers on the local, state, and federal levels continue to show how they only care about the wealthy and will all march to the oligarchy drumbeat in lockstep. I hope I will someday live in a country that taxes the rich to give decent wages, paid time off, sick leave, Medicare, free education, and so much more to the working class. But to be honest, I’m not really holding my breath—these were problems before the pandemic; we can just see them more clearly now.”
UC Santa Cruz Pandemi(zine), Santa Cruz, CA
2020
Lucia Vitale and UC Santa Cruz’s SOCY 194 class.
Collecting Community History Initiative Digital Archives, Autry Museum; MSA.64.1.251
Santa Monica, CA
2020
Sue Peck
Collecting Community History Initiative Digital Archives, Autry Museum; MSA.64.1.159
“The COVID-19 experience has inspired me to create art for the first time in 38 years. These are my contributions.”
Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, CA
2020
Sue Peck
Collecting Community History Initiative Digital Archives, Autry Museum; MSA.64.1.159
“The COVID-19 experience has inspired me to create art for the first time in 38 years. These are my contributions.”
The Autry Museum of the American West acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). We recognize that the Autry Museum and its campuses are located on the traditional lands of Gabrielino/Tongva peoples and we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.
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