Pandemic & Protest

Feb. 2 – June 6, 2021 | Online at Tang Teaching Museum Website

This online exhibition features three projects created by artists responding to COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter protests: Isaac Scott’s protest photographs from Philadelphia; Danielle St. Laurent’s portraits of families in quarantine through the windows of their homes; and MASKS4PEOPLE’s silkscreened face masks created in collaboration with sculptor Nicole Cherubini’s mezzanine installation at the Tang. The exhibition includes oral histories with the artists and new writing by Skidmore faculty and staff Cerri Banks, Rachel Cantave, Andy Demaree, Parker Diggory, Lisa Grady-Willis, Kelli Johnson and Julia Routbort. Additionally, Skidmore students in Dayton Director Ian Berry’s The Artist Interview course wrote short responses to these projects after meeting with and interviewing the artists in September 2020. The exhibition will demonstrate how a museum can act to support artists, document and preserve historic moments in real time, and serve as a repository and archive for primary-source material for future study and research.