{"id":10278,"date":"2020-06-17T14:13:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T18:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=10278"},"modified":"2020-09-24T12:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T16:03:35","slug":"quarantine-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/quarantine-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With classes being taught virtually for the second half of the semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and with much of society practicing social distancing, faculty in Monmouth\u2019s Department of Art and Design needed to quickly adapt their plans for the semester and help their students find inspiration closer to home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each semester, students in Assistant Professor of Art and Design Kimberly Callas\u2019 Sculpture II class complete a Social Practice project in which they collaborate and engage with the local community to address a specific issue. Last semester, Callas\u2019 students were supposed to work on an environmental project with Aslan Youth Ministry, a local nonprofit after-school program that assists at-risk youth from Asbury to Red Bank, New Jersey. But the quarantine forced the cancellation of that partnership after one joint session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Callas\u2019 students brainstormed\u2014via Zoom, of course\u2014other issues they could tackle in their Social Practice project. They hit on the idea of doing a \u201csocial media campaign to gather input on how various groups were handling the quarantine,\u201d Callas said. \u201cThey gathered comments and decided to focus their sculptural response to the major symbol of the day, the mask.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with materials they had available in the place they were quarantined\u2014everything from sticks to leaves to fabric\u2014the students created the masks seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Gianna Rossi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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by Anthony Hicks<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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by Kat Cahill<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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by Tabitha Gallagher<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>

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Specialist Professor of Photography Mark Ludak \u201981 had his students point their cameras and phones out their windows to document what the world looked like to them during the quarantine. The students presented their work in compelling digital stories, several of which are linked to below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n