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Collected Item: “Pandemic Street Art: Cross-country Corona Chalk Project”

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Pandemic Street Art: Cross-country Corona Chalk Project

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

YouTube video

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

A group of chalk artists connected remotely to create a piece of chalk art to honor frontline workers. The artists were Naomi Haverland from Seattle, Washington, Jolene Russell from Sacramento, California, Anat Ronen from Houston, Texas, Jessi Queen from Atlanta, Georgia, Shelly and Dave Brenner from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dave photographed his wife Shelly, who is also a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, for a collaborative chalk art piece with each artist making their part in their hometown.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

frontline workers, chalk, chalk art, pandemic street art, ASU, HST580, Sacramento, Houston, Atlanta, Ann Arbor, community, emotion, festival

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEFnmHKLQ8

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Naomi Haverland, Jolene Russell, Anat Ronen, Jessi Queen, Shelly Brenner, Dave Brenner

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2020-04-27
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