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Aerial drawing of a house during March 2020 depicting COVID surround the home and questioning if COVID is in different areas inside. This item was contributed in person to a collective binder at the ehibition Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the…

Excerpts from a personal COVID journal kept starting April 1, 2020 so that my grandchildren would have a first-hand account of the experience of the pandemic. The entries describe the ways that life adjusted to deal with the lockdown and the…

Keep the Window Wide: I Blame the Quarantine is a project that I began the moment classes at Rhode Island College were shifted to online learning March, 2020. I'm an English professor at RIC, and I teach creative writing. I wanted to be sure not to…

Inspired by Lynda Barry’s COVID diary, which appeared in the New York Times on May 8th 2020, I decided to keep my own collage diary. I began with the simple prompt, “When did this become real for you?” Some chaotic impressions tumble out on that…

Interview between Sophia Richter and John & Sue. They share their earliest memories of Covid, having been in Ecuador right before the U.S. shutdown. John and Sue reflect on missing music at the Pumphouse and going out to restaurants, taking health…

A detailed photo documentary by a 7th grade student with very interesting takes on common 2020 quarentine items and the meaning behind them

A google doc set of photos and descriptions for a 7th grade student's experience during quarentine

A 7th grader's response to write a letter to your past self from before the quarentine and a letter to your future self from next year

A 7th grader's response to write a letter to your past self from before the quarentine and a letter to your future self from next year

A 7th grader's response to write a letter to your past self from before the quarentine and a letter to your future self from next year