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RESIST COVID/Have 6! is a public art entrada by artist Carrie Mae Weems that communicates healthcare messaging and combats the spread of COVID-19. The project was created during a residency at Syracuse University and has since expanded to diverse cities nationwide. A consortium of Dallas-Fort Worth-based cultural institutions led by the Dallas Contemporary are presenting RESIST COVID/ Have 6! throughout the DFW Metroplex.

The project's title is an innuendo to the recommended six feet of separation in social distancing. In this initiative, Weems marries her photographs and healthcare guidelines to spread life-saving information and life-affirming messages to Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Native American communities—who have been disproportionately impacted by the mortiferous virus—in the form of public-facing billboards, wheat paste posters, and takeaways including buttons and fans. This messaging both promotes preventative measures and dispels harmful falsehoods, while besides paying homage to forepart-line and essential workers.

We've all been impacted by COVID-19. It'south an ecological wellness crisis of ballsy proportions—an international disaster," Weems says. "And still we accept indisputable prove that people of color accept been unduly impacted. The death toll in these communities is staggering. This fact affords the nation an unprecedented opportunity to address the impact of social and economic inequality in real time. Denial does not solve a problem. And I idea, 'How can I use my art and my voice as a way of underscoring what's possible and bring the general public into a chat, into heightened awareness of this trouble to amend the community in which I live?'"

Weems is an internationally renowned artist who has used multiple mediums (photography, video, digital imagery, text, cloth and more) to explore intersecting themes of sexism, class, race, family and community, and the consequences of ability. For Weems, her artistic practice, with its insistence on both technical accomplishment and radical empathy, creates space for community dialogue and catalytic social engagement. She declares, "my responsibility as an artist is to...make fine art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to adorn the mess of a messy globe, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment." Her activism in her customs is thus an extension of her art, and vice versa, with a criticality, incisiveness, and urgency all its ain.

Weems hopes RESIST COVID/ Accept vi! will be impactful in both its immediate messaging and in prompting a larger dialogue nigh the pandemic and its long-term consequences for those most severely affected. "I'm non a policy-maker. I'yard not a politician. I'one thousand a citizen concerned about what'due south going on in my community," she says. "This coronavirus isn't going away anytime before long, and neither are the underlying issues affecting people of color that it has made even more than apparent."

For more information on the artist and this projection, delight visit the artist's website.

Find upwards-to-appointment data on COVID-xix for Dallas County, Tarrant County, and Texas.

View a map of distribution sites for masks and other merchandise, COVID-19 testing sites, billboard and wheat paste locations.

Fort Worth Billboard Locations

2100 NE 28th Street, "Life is cute"

3308 E. Belknap Street, "No te preocupes, volveremos a darnos la mano"

5701 E. Berry Street, "Gracias, trabajadores del mundo"

1316 Jacksboro Highway, "Gracias, trabajadores del mundo"

5517 SE Loop 820, "Remember to"

3317 N. Main Street, "Recuerda"

3057 Mansfied Highway, "Gracias, trabajadores del mundo"

2791 Eastward. Seminary Drive, "Thank the workers of the world"

301 Sylvania Artery, "Gracias, trabajadores del mundo"

2100 Glen Garden Drive, "Recuerda"

1900 E. Vickery Boulevard, "La vida es bella"

3237 Cherry Lane, "Give thanks the workers of the world"

6650 East. Lancaster Avenue, "Don't worry, we'll hold easily again"

5428 Jacksboro Highway, "Remember to"

7431 East. Lancaster Avenue, "Life is beautiful"

Dallas Billboard Locations

2806 E. Illinois Avenue, "No te preocupes, volveremos a darnos la mano"

3435 E. Illinois Avenue, "Don't worry, we'll agree easily again"

7065 Slap-up Trinity Woods Way, "Life is beautiful"

4030 West. Davis Street, "La vida es bella"

1433 Due north. Westmoreland Road, "Recuerda"

209 Southward. Beckley Avenue (Desoto), "Call back to"

1125 Hartsdale Avenue, "Gracias, trabajadores del mundo"

1609 N. Edgefield Artery, "Gracias, trabajadores del mundo"

3049 E. Main Street (M Prairie), "Give thanks the workers of the globe"

300 N. Stemmons Freeway, "Life is beautiful"

1012 Due south. RL Thornton Thruway, "Don't worry, we'll hold hangs once again"

5308 Oleander Avenue, "Gracias, trabajadores del mundo"

1606 S. Haskell Avenue, "No te preocupes, volveremos a darnos la mano"

6606 Due south. RL Thornton Freeway, "Retrieve to"

11407 Emerald Street, "Recuerda"

8800 Julius Schepps Throughway, "La vida es bella"

1818 Metropolitan Artery, "Thank the workers of the globe"

4130 South. Walton Walker Boulevard, "Thank the workers of the world"

4490 Cracking Trinity Wood Mode, "Gracias, trabajadores del mundo"

Exhibition

Fort Worth Customs Arts Center, Frost Gallery

1300 Gendy Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107

Through Oct 3, 2020

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RESIST COVID/TAKE 6! is a multi-city project that is being led in Dallas-Fort Worth past Dallas Gimmicky and a consortium of local nationally recognized museums, including the African American Museum of Dallas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, The Nasher Sculpture Center, and the newly-formed Gossypion Investments group of cultural consultants.

Presenting sponsors include Atoms, the Metropolis of Dallas, Articulate Aqueduct Outdoor, the Dallas Art Fair Foundation, and Geoff Green and Sheryl Adkins-Light-green.

Contributing sponsors include Arts Council of Fort Worth, Big Outdoor, SMU Ignite Arts Dallas, and UBS.

Media sponsors include The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Weekly, Paper City Magazine, and Patron Magazine.

Customs partners include 29 Pieces, Andrew "Doc" Session Community Center, Anita Martinez Recreation Center, APAA - Clan for Persons Affected by Addiction, Art Tooth, Ash Studios, AVANCE Northward Texas, Bridgebuilders buildingcommunityWORKSHOP, The Che Dispensary - Eye for Wellness Empowerment, Churchill Recreation Heart, Creative Arts Eye of Dallas, Dallas Mexican American Historical League, Dallas Public Library, Diamond Hill Community Center, Elevate DTX, Ferguson Road Initiative, Beginning Presbyterian Church building, Nutrient Metropolis, Wood Forwards, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth ISD - Department of Visual Arts, Fort Worth Public Library, The Living Room, Klyde Warren Park, Living Harvest Church building, Living Discussion Harvest of Dallas, Mercy Street, Northward Park Eye, Northside Customs Center, Due north Texas Food Bank, North Texas Behavioral Wellness Authorisation, Ntarupt, Pleasant Grove Unidos, State Fair of Texas, Step Medical Center, Sunset Art Studios, Tarrant Canton Black Historical & Genealogical Club, Inc., Tarrant Area Food Bank, TCC South Campus Dept of Fine Arts, Teatro Dallas, The Art Galleries at TCU, The Smart Project / The Self Publication, The Stewpot, South Dallas Entrepreneur Eye, Thomas Identify Customs Center, Urban Arts Eye, UT Southwestern Medical Centre, Voice Invictus Mentoring, and Wellmed Senior Activity Heart.

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Source: https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/programs-events/programs-list/program/id/209