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Newsela | Student perspectives: One year into the COVID-19 pandemic

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A year into COVID-19, students share thoughts

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LA-based photographer, Caroline White, spent much of the last decade traveling to shoot clients.

Once the pandemic hit and California went on lockdown, her business struggled.

She got creative and pivoted to take pandemic portraits of sorts, capturing her clients through windows.

Now, she's getting hired by people all over LA who want to document their time under lockdown.

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Caroline White has been a highly sought-after personal branding photographer for over a decade, traveling around the world to shoot a long list of clients. Recently, however, the LA-based photographer started feeling the need for a change, a hunger for more authenticity and depth.

Little did she know that a global pandemic would help her turn her work on its head.

White says that she hasn't been in one place for this long in years, but that slowing down has been good for her. Using lockdown productively, she has pivoted her business to sell prints and do "quarantine shoots" of people through their windows. In the last few weeks, White has been hired to do about a half dozen of these pandemic portraits, her rate being between $400 and $1,000 a shoot.

"Honestly, this little project has been my saving grace, giving me a sense of creativity, connection, purpose, and much-needed accountability," she told Insider.

From a man who wanted photos for his fiancée stuck overseas to a DJ performing a set on Instagram live, keep scrolling to see White's latest work.

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People are hiring a photographer to shoot 'pandemic portraits' through their windows

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LA-based photographer, Caroline White, spent much of the last decade traveling to shoot clients. Once the pandemic hit and California went on lockdown, her business struggled. She got creative and pivoted to take pandemic portraits of sorts, capturing her clients through windows.

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Los Angeles-based photographer (CNN) - Erin Sullivan has found an unconventional way to satiate her penchant for exploration while under a stay-at-home order because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sullivan let her creativity go wild in her latest photo series, "Our Great Indoors." In it, she constructs fantastical landscapes from common household objects found in her apartment, such as pancakes, pillow cases and raincoats.

Sullivan's career as a travel photographer has brought her to some of the most beautiful places around the world. These excursions helped her prepare for more than 40 days in self-quarantine.

"I was asking myself how I can stay creative and how I can stay connected to the outdoors and travel -- to these things that have been so important to my growth and the growth of my community," Sullivan told CNN.

Sullivan's childhood dream was to travel internationally.

Until she was able to do so as an adult, the Connecticut-native would imagine different places whenever she was bored.

As she would fall asleep, she imagined that the creases in her sheets formed an igloo - or a mountain with skiers gliding down the slopes.

Sullivan channeled her inner child in one of her favorite photos in the series called "Tinfoil Lake." It was inspired by summers spent fishing with her grandfather and her family. The photo was constructed using tinfoil, a toothbrush and a lamp under a sheet. It has collected more than 16,000 likes on Instagram.

While brainstorming adventure scenes, Sullivan draws upon memories of the places she has visited. She places added emphasis on how those environments make her feel, rather than how they appear.

New Zealand has been an important source of inspiration for Sullivan.

During her first visit to the country, she spent four months living out of her car and working on farms to photograph the iridescent glow worm caves.

In her ode to New Zealand, she repurposed tin foil, a smart light bulb, rose quartz and rain jackets to build her "Glowing Gore-Tex Cave" scene.

While Sullivan has never been to a broccoli forest, she says the mountainous areas in Greece, the Redwoods and Sequoias in California, the Cascades in Seattle and the large maple trees she grew up around have all made her feel a similar sense of magic.

Her photos are an intriguing mix of fantasy and familiarity, during a very unfamiliar time.

Commenting on her limited access to supplies, Sullivan said, "creativity can thrive given constraints [...] That's part of art, the process of experimentation."

As she begins to photograph her scenes, Sullivan asks herself how she can manipulate the objects just right, paying close attention to light, texture, shadow and color. It's crucial to pay just as much, or even more, attention to these details when photographing indoors, she said.

Sullivan has received overwhelming praise for her photography series, gaining nearly 60,000 followers in the four weeks since she posted on Instagram her first picture of the ice caves built with pillows and train figures.

Nashville-based photographer Jeremy Cowart has developed an adaptive series called "Separated Together," in which he captures people that have been geographically separated by Covid-19, photographing their digital projections side-by-side in his studio.

After Roger Hoover's marketing firm closed during the pandemic, he took to the sidewalks of Kent, Ohio, to photograph "porch portraits" of his neighbors and community. Hoover writes on his website, the project was born as "a reaction to the enforced isolation of the coronavirus period. Refusing to allow physical distance to break the community bonds he has constructed for years."

CNN's Martin Savidge profiles different experiences around the country as the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic changes the fabric of American life as we know it.

Building a sustainable business model during this crisis, especially as freelance work is widely canceled, has posed a daunting barrier to overcome.

Sullivan expects many artists will be forced to pivot to other work as their small businesses will not survive.

"This is also the nature of being a creative entrepreneur in a creative field ... in some ways, it's expected that things will change," Sullivan remarked.

To support artists during the pandemic, United States Artists (USA) has partnered with a coalition of nonprofits to offer a $10 million collaborative grant program called "Artist Relief."

The initiative offers $5,000 grants to artists in "dire financial emergencies" because of the outbreak, including photographers, filmmakers, writers and designers.

During so much economic upheaval and uncertainty, Sullivan is glad that her photography has provided a source of encouragement and solace.

Already, her photo series has inspired hundreds of people to transform their apartments into mini-wonderlands.

Sullivan has called on others to join in on the challenge, by sharing any indoor-adventure photos with the hashtag: #OurGreatIndoors.

"Anything that gives people some joy and lightheartedness is really welcome," Sullivan added, "as much as possible, try not to put too many hard expectations on yourself. Right now is a time to be really kind and gentle to ourselves."

CNN's Fernando Alfonso III, Rachael Scott and Ryan Prior contributed to this report.

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How a travel photographer in self-quarantine 'escaped' her apartment. You can do it, too

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Los Angeles-based photographer (CNN) - Erin Sullivan has found an unconventional way to satiate her penchant for exploration while under a stay-at-home order because of the coronavirus pandemic. Sullivan let her creativity go wild in her latest photo series, "Our Great Indoors."

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Stuck inside and unable to take on any typical portrait or editorial commissions, many photographers are mostly out of work, bunkered indoors alongside their knick knacks like the rest of us. Still, though, these artists prove their ability to make art out of anything, emboldened by the presence of their cameras, hard drives and light. In an effort to celebrate the power of creativity under any circumstance, we asked 19 of our favorite photographers to shoot a still-life emblematic of their experience during quarantine, or to send through an image from their archive that feels most relevant to our current situation. Scroll down to see these simple, powerful images and read about what they've been thinking and feeling during this time.

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19 Photographers Share a Quarantine-Inspired Still Life

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Stuck inside and unable to take on any typical portrait or editorial commissions, many photographers are mostly out of work, bunkered indoors alongside their knick knacks like the rest of us. Still, though, these artists prove their ability to make art out of anything, emboldened by the presence of their cameras, hard drives and light.

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Tomaso Clavarino wasn't always a photographer. He started out as a writer, but around seven years ago he gradually put down the pen and turned toward the camera. He had been interested in photography from a young age. His father, an architect and accomplished photographer himself, taught Clavarino almost everything he knows about photography.

So, after getting an MA in contemporary history and then working for several years as a freelance journalist, the foundation for switching to photography had already been laid. For Clavarino, photography "gives me the chance to investigate our society with freedom and imagination, feeds my curiosity and makes it possible to develop wider narratives with the obligation to deal somehow with reality."

Since switching over to photography, Clavarino has dedicated himself to working mostly on social and humanitarian issues. As it has for a lot of freelance photographers, the global spread of covid-19 has severely hampered the kind of work that Clavarino can do. But, for some, like Clavarino, it has also provided an opportunity to grow.

Clavarino told In Sight that while he's not used to photographing his own life, being quarantined has made him rethink that, helping him push his creative limits. He says, speaking in English, that this time has given him "the chance to deal with my comfort zone and to try to develop another kind of visual narrative, more intimate and personal. I wanted to deal with my roots in such a crazy period we are living, to deal with my past and to do so in a place that seems a sort of quiet haven suspended in time and space but pervaded of the tension of these times." For Clavarino, this has manifested itself in an extremely personal and introspective project he has come to call his "Quarantine Ballad."

Here is Clavarino's description of the project:

"In life sometimes events follow one another without giving you a chance to breathe. The news of my partner's pregnancy; a mourning that has deeply affected us; the inability to receive a hug from friends and relatives; Italy, and the whole world, paralyzed by a pandemic. So came the need to breathe, to return to the place where I grew up, which has always represented a safe haven, a happy island, immersed in an unreal tranquility, just a few kilometers away from the areas most affected by the epidemic.

"Cocconato d'Asti, in the hills of Lower Monferrato, Piedmont. Set in the second region in Italy for number of deaths for covid-19, a few kilometers from some of the most affected areas of northern Italy, here everything seems immersed in a surreal calm.

"And it is in this reality, as if suspended in time and space, that 'Quarantine Ballad' was born, a sort of rural ballad, a personal narration of these weeks, which talks about me, my roots, those around me but above all of the tension that pervades our lives in this period, and of this historical moment that will represent a clear break in our society and in our way of life."

"The world is still dealing with the rough realities the covid-19 pandemic has unleashed on us. As of this writing, there have been over three million confirmed cases and more than two hundred thousand deaths. There is still no vaccine or effective treatment for the virus and our lives, for the foreseeable future, have been turned upside down. As Clavarino's ballad shows us, it is as good a time as ever to reflect - on who we are and what our place in the world is and also who we want to be in the coming years as life will most likely look much different than it once did."

In Sight is The Washington Post's photography blog for visual narrative. This platform showcases compelling and diverse imagery from staff members and freelance photographers, news agencies and archives. If you are interested in submitting a story to In Sight, please complete this form.

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Tomaso Clavarino wasn't always a photographer. He started out as a writer, but around seven years ago he gradually put down the pen and turned toward the camera. He had been interested in photography from a young age. His father, an architect and accomplished photographer himself, taught Clavarino almost everything he knows about photography.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed lives, disrupted economies, and changed daily existence as we know it. It has also shown us how strong we can be, and how creative, even in isolation. For this portfolio, part of our special June/July issue, we asked a bevy of photographers, filmmakers, creative directors, and performance artists to give us a glimpse of their lives under lockdown.

What is now the photographer 's atelier was once the home of his grandmother, an avid gardener. He remembers and engages with her memory now by shooting flowers. "These kinds of moments are very rich and peaceful," he says.

Asked what is keeping her calm and collected right now, the photographer -pictured with her son, Leo-replied: "Going back to basics. Home, nature, being in the day."

"I took this image when I was in a moment of despair about the world, to be honest," the photographer says. "So the idea of getting dressed up or taking a 'fun' selfie with fashion wasn't exciting me. But I was really into the foot-on-the-world graphic on my T-shirt, which is from Monty Python. I feel it nicely summed up the state of things."

Tina Barney, Rhode Island

"I've been making works on paper from my own photographs and snapshots since the 1990s," says Barney from her home. "I thought this would be fun and more gratifying than just taking a selfie with an iPhone."

"To be represented as a blur could be reflective of the passing of time," the photographer says, appearing here with his partner, Constanza. "Gardening has been extremely satisfying, and a way of being directly in contact with nature: To observe something that progresses so slowly-the simplicity of a fern pushing through the soil and unfurling over a week-has definitely installed a new sense of calm in me."

" In the Waiting is an ongoing series where I attempt to take a photograph every day during my COVID-19 quarantine," the London-born photographer and filmmaker says. "It's a process that has not only humbled me, but also allowed me to face a vulnerability in my work that I thought I'd lost. In the Waiting will document these anxious times, and serve as a placeholder to remember that stillness is also life, and chaos can birth beautiful ideas."

"This is the timed lockbox I put my phone in when I write," says July. "During quarantine I feel somewhat justified in my off-the-charts level of screen time; we have to connect somehow, right? But, just as before quarantine, constant, low-grade connection kind of destroys my capacity for writing-which, in the end, is also about connection. So re-finding that balance has been a challenge all over again."

Daniel Jackson, Millbrook, New York

"This picture is of my youngest, Noah, confined indoors, directing the invasion of the kitchen table and interrupting his brother and sister's online school," the photographer says. "It brings an optimism and energy to us during this challenging time."

"I've been photographing for about five years, and this is the second time I've ever tried to photograph myself and the first time where my face is actually in the image," says Mckenzie. "I think a lot usually about how my subject feels when I'm photographing them; it's important that they feel comfortable and empowered, and I usually connect with them during those moments on an energetic or personal level in order to represent them properly. When it came to photographing myself, I felt awkward at first. I'm so used to seeing and finding the beauty in others, but through this I've had to really find it in myself."

Nigel Shafran, Devon, England

"Isolation has given me so much time to breathe. After nonstop travel the past few years, this moment of stillness has been really grounding," the photographer says. Her idle hours are mostly devoted to "reading a lot, meditation, connecting with friends and family around the world, and living in the present moment."

The New York-based photographer has a knack for capturing kooky, almost psychedelic still-lifes. Here, he combines two unlikely subjects: snails and citrus. "I've had snails as pets for a few years now," says Doherty. "These ones are a few months old; they spend most of their days sleeping in their shells, but I've been taking them out and playing with them more often now. I basically spend all day staring at my snails and the fruits and flowers I've bought to cheer myself up. Blobs of bright colors smooshed together make me feel good."

"These photos make up a portrait of me at this time," says the photographer. "They were taken in the last few weeks either at home or nearby while social distancing. Many of the objects in these photos were collected while traveling with photography."

"I'm wearing what has become my quarantine uniform. Not quite pajamas, not quite on-duty clothing. As long as I do Zoom meetings from the waist up, no one can see my favorite pair of ill-fitting lounge pants," says the New York City-based photographer, who routinely mines the space between observational and staged photography. "If you wear the same thing every day, there's more time to think about how I'm going to use the same ingredients from yesterday to make something different for lunch today."

Diamond Stingily, New York

"This is a portrait my friend, the gallerist and artist Sam Lipp, is painting of me while he is isolated in his studio," says the American-born artist. "The title of the portrait is Diamond at Her Grandma's. "

Moises Saman, Amman, Jordan

The American-Spanish photojournalist took this image in late March. As he describes it: "A lone man sits on the balcony of an apartment building in the Abdoun district of Amman, during a country-wide curfew imposed by the Jordanian government to fight the spread of COVID-19."

"To make a photograph can be a form of daytime dreaming," the Norwegian-born photographer says. "I don't reject the subtle symbols that bubble up. The part of a photograph that crosses a line has perhaps less weight and little nutritional value, but visually it's everything. So also with this citrus from a corner store here in Highbury." He continues, "The unusually vivid and sunny spring gives a sense of hope. Later this week I'll be able to process photographic film again, so things are looking up. These are the sweet little lies I tell myself."

"My wife took the picture of me, says the photographer. "We adopted three cats, a parrot, and the (ever-growing) pig. The red inflatable suit was given to me by a friend last year. One day, the sun was shining. I put it on, and my wife took this picture on the balcony with my pig. The pig slept happily and didn't notice that I was different from usual."

Gordon von Steiner, New York

"There is nothing keeping me calmer and more hopeful than the 7 p.m, cheer that happens every evening in New York," says the director. "If I stand at the edge of the East River in Williamsburg, I can hear cheering from Manhattan across the water. I love that."

Rafa Esparza, Los Angeles

In his performance work, the multidisciplinary artist has typically used a mask of his face to establish a "psychological distance" between himself and his audience. Here, however, he's created a "corona mask," which he wears with a T-shirt bearing a pointed message. "It's important now more than ever to support folks in dire states of neglect and danger through the work of organizations seeking justice for migrant communities in detention, who are the most vulnerable to the threat of COVID-19," he says. Surrounding him are various family members: "Behind me is a portrait I painted of my dear hermanx San Cha, an L.A.-based musician helping soothe my days with her angelic voice. With me is also my younger cousin Pedro Zamora, an emerging photographer who took my picture."

Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Los Angeles

"I've been away from my studio this entire lockdown, just going once to bring my computer and cameras home after the first week," says the photographer. "Every week or so I try to make a few pictures, and have been using multiple exposures to layer observations from home. Nothing fancy, but it yields a little something to do."

"I take a lot of nature walks, listen to audiobooks, do some gardening, and I enjoy taking photographs and videos with my iPhone," says the Iranian-born artist. "I am starting to like my new 'country' look, wearing jeans, boots, hats-but always with my heavy eyeliner on!"

Quinn Wilson, Maui, Hawaii

"Although she's not in the photo, my girlfriend took [this picture of me]," says the creative director. "I'm fortunate enough to be quarantined with people I love. My girlfriend and I are writing together, which has been an incredibly collaborative experience and has helped keep my focus on creativity and off anxiety (which, honey, I have a lot of)."

"I think staying healthy and active brings a sense of control in these crazy times. Also keeping the creative conversations going with my friends and coming up with projects we can still realize under these circumstances," says the fashion photographer. "[For] this image...we were discussing ways to keep making things with my friend Francelle, who is an amazing makeup artist, so she dropped off products from her brand Lovecraft Beauty at my door. Then she directed me on Zoom to do my own makeup and we did a little beauty story while staying safe."

"After five weeks on the campaign trail for Vogue, I escaped to Europe to take part in a sparsely attended art show in Brussels," the photographer says. "I took this photo rushing back to Paris by train before they shut the border. Eventually I made it back to an ominous, lonesome New York City." Yet there's a sign of hope hiding in his image. "If you look closely, you can see the camera strap that my closest friends got me for my birthday years ago. It's a reminder that one of these days, these days will end."

The photographer is best known for her portraits of celebrities-Jay-Z, Solange, and Bella Hadid, to name a few-but for her own self-portrait, she went with something more ethereal. "This is a representation of how I'm feeling," she says of the split-screen shot. "I'm home, quarantined with myself, feeling boxed-in but also feeling free."

"I have been spending a lot of my quarantine going through the un- or underused items in my closet and upcycling or mending them into things that I am excited to wear again," says the photographer. "Before the pandemic, I was working with the OR Foundation, a not-for-profit organization focused on the global impacts of fashion/clothing waste, and I'm taking this opportunity to turn that research more pointedly on myself," he says. "Beyond my closet, I have also been honing my sewing skills by helping my close friend and collaborator Hillary Taymour of Collina Strada create masks for health care workers. We spent part of a day together alternating between making masks and making this image by playing dress-up."

Inez and Vinoodh, Long Island, New York

The Dutch photographers thought back-or perhaps forward-to better times while creating their image: "Our happiest moments are when all our friends are together for dinner at our home, talking, cooking, sharing food, and supporting each other through life's ups and downs."

Alana O'Herlihy, Los Angeles

For her highly stylized self-portrait, the artist dreamt up a character named Brooklyn. "It is an ode to my hometown of New York, which I miss so very much right now as I am quarantined in Los Angeles," she says. "Brooklyn has taken up a new hobby of bobbing for apples and working on her suntan during this trying time. She is more and more perplexed as the days go on, but can find solace in counting apples."

Quarantined at home with his family, the photographer models a makeup look conceived by his daughters, Martha and Mila. Helping to keep him at ease, Wetherell says, is "sleeping well and a little bit of wine."

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Creativity in Crisis: How Some of Our Favorite Photographers and Visual Artists Are Coping in Quarantine

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What is now the photographer 's atelier was once the home of his grandmother, an avid gardener. He remembers and engages with her memory now by shooting flowers. "These kinds of moments are very rich and peaceful," he says. Asked what is keeping her calm and collected right now, the photographer -pictured with her son, Leo-replied: "Going back to basics.

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Texas graphic design business makes face shields to help with COVID-19 response

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June 23, 2020

When Laura Hatcher, graphic designer and adjunct professor in the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education, heard about the United Nations' first creative brief, she brought it to her Graphic
Design 3 students.

On March 30, the U.N. asked creatives to design messaging around stopping the spread of COVID-19, focusing on key messages like proper hygiene,
physical distancing and myth busting.

The opportunity naturally built on one of the course's assigned readings, "How Good
is Good" by Stefan Sagmeister, in which the designer reflects upon his experiences
after September 11, 2001.

"We discussed the role of a creative professional during a crisis," Hatcher says.
"I told them about this call to creatives, and they were totally on board."

Unlike many graphic design projects, which ask students to create work for imaginary
clients or situations, this opportunity wasn't just an exercise.

"It was tough, and it was emotional," Hatcher adds. "Some of them had lost family
members already to the pandemic. There were tears. It was very heavy, but what was
so great was to see how the students were supporting each other. And then to get the
feedback from them that it felt so good to be able to do something to help."

She also shared the Viral Art Project, a call to designers to create public service announcement (PSA) posters that spread
awareness about COVID-19, hosted by Washington, D.C.-based creative agencies and organizations.

Hatcher and her students approached their projects by first identifying and researching
their target audience: the students' own social networks. They looked at the messages
they were and weren't seeing in their networks and then compared those to the facts
and public health messaging surrounding COVID-19.

"We also talked about how they could each use their specific skills, the thing they're
really good at, to make the most impact," Hatcher says. "Are they really good with
illustration? Are they good with humor? Are they great with photography? And translate
that to make the most impactful graphic they could."

The class shared concepts and mockups with each other in small groups and through
a Slack channel. They shared the final product on their personal social media pages.

Hatcher says students learned about the amount of misinformation available, especially
on social media, and their responsibility as visual communicators.

"It was a really good experience for them, and I was really proud of how they worked
through all of it," Hatcher says.

They also learned there's no one way to approach a problem. "We all had the same challenge,
but there are a million different creative solutions, and they all have different
benefits to them."

Deepika Chauhan

"In my poster, I am portraying how coronavirus can be spread by even a small droplet
and what steps we can take to protect ourselves and others. To convey this message,
I combined hand-drawn patterns with bold typography calling viewers to take action.
Together we can stop the pandemic by following guidelines for the coronavirus set
by the CDC."

Kelsey Fitzpatrick

"This project helped me grapple with the emotional complexities of our lives in social
isolation. I created this graphic to show that we are not alone. Social distancing
can be hard, but with love from friends and family, we can make a difference. Through
making a Zoom meeting call spelling out "ALL IN THIS TOGETHER," we are spreading the
awareness of the ones who are mentally struggling through this outbreak. We are calling
on one another to help us grow together and stop the spread."

Jalyn Tolliver

"In my poster I am portraying the severity of COVID-19 on all of us. My main mission
is to debunk the myth that different races or ethnicities are immune to COVID-19.
During this pandemic we should all stay informed with the latest credible updates
on the virus and try our best to do our part in getting through this hard time."

Rachel Bunger

"To bring further awareness of the precautions we should take during this pandemic,
I have highlighted one of the precautions we should all practice-wearing a mask. Wearing
a face covering not only protects you but others as well."

Shreyesh Shrestha

"During my research for the COVID-19 pandemic, I wanted to focus on the age group
of 18 to 25. I found that most of my friends and their friends were using dating apps
because of social isolation. So this sparked an idea, where the dating app took over
the world of our generation. I decided to put the symptoms and the thing people don't
do in the bio. The main goal is to tell people to not go out and swipe left for COVID-19."

Delaney Wiggins

"I recently had a very close friend of mine suffer from domestic abuse during quarantine.
I didn't know how scary it was for her to be trapped in a small apartment with her
abuser, all I knew was that I needed to get her out. It's important to spread awareness
about the severity of domestic abuse during a time like this and not let it get pushed
under the rug. If you know anyone who may be struggling, be the light for them."

Bridget Devoy

"Often you are shamed for wanting to be lazy and stay home to relax; for once that's
what it takes to be the hero. Staying home helps prevent you from getting sick as
well as protects others from having it spread."

Hayley Koteff

"After doing research on my audience-teens and young adults-I found one of the biggest
issues is the difference between social distancing and social isolation. Social distancing
is not the same thing as social isolation, though to many people, it may feel like
the same. These graphics were made to remind the viewer the difference and the many
ways you can still stay in contact with friends and family while social distancing."
This press release was produced by Towson University. The views expressed here are the author's own.

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TU Graphic Design Students Answer U.N.'s Call To Creatives

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It's an image of a nurse with her hands pressed together in prayer. In bold letters below her hands, it says "bless the healers."

The illustration, designed by the artist Marvin Madariaga, has been shared across social media. Some people have posted it in the window of their home. And it's been projected on the side of a building in the heart of New York City.

In health crises, people have long turned to the arts to inform and inspire. During the 1980s AIDS epidemic, the words "silence = death" were printed on posters, pins and patches. And during the 2014 Ebola crisis, murals with the slogan "Ebola is real" were painted across West Africa.

The coronavirus pandemic is no different. Two organizations, the United Nations and Amplifier, an arts group, launched independent campaigns in March inviting artists to submit artwork around the coronavirus. Tens of thousands of submissions later, the groups are now showcasing a selection of these works to the public.

Madariaga's artwork was submitted to Amplifier, which coordinated some of the iconic poster designs around the Women's March on Washington in 2016.

"In times of uncertainty, art is more than beauty or decoration - it's a tool. Art can heal, art can save lives, art can bring us together - even when we're apart," says Aaron Huey, founder of Amplifier. "It can be a compass to guide us through the storm."

In March, the U.N. put out an open brief, or request, calling on artists to produce "concise and impactful visuals to help share life-saving information on COVID-19."

"The idea was really to try and lean into the creative community, to try and help identify, interpret, and amplify the messages that were keeping people safe," says Dawda Jobarteh of the U.N., who helped organize the campaign.

Since then, it has received nearly 17,000 designs from artists in 143 countries, ranging from photography to animation, graphic design to hand-drawn posters.

Some submissions focus on unity. In one, Mexican artist Lisa Saldivar depicts the facade of an apartment building, as a crowd of people converse. Bubble letters frame the piece: "kindness not cancelled."

Other submissions, like one from Russian artist Irina Chaitsyna, emphasize important health messages. Her illustration shows people engaged in activities like exercising and painting spelling out the words "stay home" with their bodies.

After the call for submissions ended on April 14, the U.N. evaluated the designs to ensure that they were promoting accurate health messaging according to the World Health Organization's safety guidelines. On April 30, it made the vetted images available in an online portal - and are now encouraging people to view the images, download and share. There is no cash prize, but the U.N. will feature some of the artwork on their social media channels.

Amplifier's campaign had a slightly different brief. On May 8 it ended a campaign calling on artists to create visuals that promote mental health and well-being amid the pandemic. It also called for artwork that envisions life after lockdown.

Since then, it has received over 10,500 submissions - with 100 entrants selected for a $1,000 individual cash prize. Like the U.N., selected images are also available on Amplifier's website for people to download for free and share.

Amplifier is taking things a step further by turning some of the submissions into a series of public art installations in cities around the world, in partnership with the arts group The Illuminator. In addition to being projected onto a building in New York City, Madariaga's nurse poster also wallpapers a building on Oxford Street in London.

Passersby are snapping photos of the installations and posting it to social media. "This is so dope," writes Instagram user @where_bry_at, of a projection depicting a black female health worker in a mask. "I love the message, the representation and the encouragement."

Praising the efforts, Glen Nowak, director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication and a professor of advertising at the University of Georgia, says public art campaigns like these can help drive home important messages around a health crisis. He cites the AIDS Memorial Quilt as an example. First created in 1987, the quilt is a vast patchwork of more than 50,000 panels commemorating the lives of the epidemic's victims - while helping the public comprehend the reality of the crisis.

Unlike other kinds of messaging, art is colorful, engaging and provocative, says Nowak. And for that reason, it "can grab people's attention" in a special way.

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It's an image of a nurse with her hands pressed together in prayer. In bold letters below her hands, it says "bless the healers." The illustration, designed by the artist Marvin Madariaga, has been shared across social media. Some people have posted it in the window of their home.

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"The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet," the famous American photographer Ansel Adams wrote in his autobiography. From the romantic painters of the late 18th century to Adams to contemporary figures like Pedro Reyes and Agnes Denes, artists have long had a fascination -- and deep respect -- for the planet on which we exist.

With the words "global warming" and "climate change" never far from the headlines, artists like Adams and co. are more relevant than ever. Tying together the scientific and creative worlds in acts of beauty and activism, sculptors, painters, photographers and more have the power to make environmentalism a priority and bring green initiatives to the forefront of cultural conversations. Behold, 18 green artists who are making climate change and conservation a priority.

For " Your waste of time," Olafur Eliasson displayed pieces of ice that broke off from Iceland's largest glacier, Vatnajökull. Exhibited in a refrigerated gallery space powered by solar panels, the ice "sculptures" represented 800 years of Earthly existence, putting human's physical experience in perspective. "The obvious lesson of Mr. Eliasson's installation, 'Your waste of time,' is that global warming is wreaking havoc on nature," Ken Johnson wrote in The New York Times last year.

At first glance, David Maisel's gorgeous photographs seem to celebrate the natural beauty of another planet, but his deep blue swirls and red craters actually depict the aerial appearance of environmentally impacted sites in the United States transformed by water reclamation, logging, military tests and mining. "With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics," Maisel writes on his website.

The art collective Luzinterruptus has a history of tackling political and social issues in Europe. The "Labyrinth of Plastic Waste" is but one example.

"We were looking to demonstrate, in a poetic manner, the amount of plastic waste that is consumed daily," Luzinterruptus explained in a statement. "In addition to focusing attention on the big business of bottling water, which leads to very serious problems in developing countries, whose citizens have watched as their aquifers have been privatized with impunity for the exclusive enrichment of large business owners and ruling classes without scruples."

Architects Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi's massive " Harvest Dome 2.0," assembled from 450 umbrellas and 128 bottles, once floated around the inlet of Inwood Hill Park in New York City. Deemed a piece of "performance architecture," the 24 by 18-foot structure further proves the world's garbage can we reused in many unexpected ways.

Using toxic runoff found in the Ohio River region, artist and professor John Sabraw produces his own DIY pigments -- bold yellows and reds that are sourced from the oxidized sludge of abandoned coal mines. Rather than using imported iron oxide from China to make his paint colors, he taps into the water's heavy metals left over from abandoned coal mines, bringing to light the region's pollution problem in the process.

" The artist, like the scientist, has a crucial role to perform in our society," Sabraw explained to HuffPost. "See things differently, act on this vision, report the failures and successes."

Naziha Mestaoui's "One Beat One Tree" projects virtual forests onto city spaces, blurring the boundaries between the natural world and advancing technology. The digital trees actually grow in rhythm with a person's heartbeat, as viewers can connect to the series via a smart phone sensor. And with each virtual plant, a physical one is grown in regions throughout the world, from Europe and Latin America to Africa and Asia. Since its inception two years ago, the project has already sparked the growth of 13,000 trees.

Photographer Rachel Sussman has been traveling the globe for the past 10 years, searching for the world's oldest living things with camera in tow. From the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback to Greenland's icy expanses, she captures portraits of organisms capable of lasting for 80,000 years, shining a light on our planet's resilience in the face of human intervention. "Extreme longevity can lull us into a false sense of permanence," Sussman wrote for Brain Pickings. " But being old is not the same as being immortal."

Combining elements of painting, photography, performance, cinema and land art, Barry Underwood renders environmental issues like light pollution and deforestation in electric splendor."My attempt is to portray environmental issues that are not delivered in a heavy-handed way," Underwood explained to HuffPost. "Rather in a way that draws attention in a pleasing way, then if contemplated could unfold a message of dissidence or a natural discord."

French sculptor Paulo Grangeon used an unlikely medium to illuminate the reality of animal endangerment across the world. For his traveling exhibit, "Pandas on Tour," he created 1,600 papier-mâché bears meant to represent the actual number of pandas left on the planet (recent estimates actually place the number slightly below that, at 1,596). Launched in 2008 in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund, Grangeon's project has traveled to landmarks in more than 20 countries, including the Eiffel Tower.

Ask a Dutch artist to solve the problem of blanket pollution in Beijing and what do you get? If you've tracked down Daan Roosegaarde, you'll get "Smog," a system of underground copper coils meant to suck up airborne particles using an electrostatic field. It's like a vacuum cleaner that operates on a similar principle to statically charged balloons.

A Kyrgyz street artist named Aida Sulova confronted the rampant garbage problem in Bishkek by using trash bins as a canvas. According to Wooster Collective, the street artist pastes photographic images of open mouths on garbage cans throughout the city to "remind people that what they throw into the world, eventually ends up inside us."

Photographer Chris Jordan puts consumption into perspective with his series "Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption." His works show the debris we as a society leave behind, from massive dumps of cell phones, to crushed cars and circuit boards, all squeezed together in hypnotic quantities. "I am appalled by these scenes, and yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination," Jordan explained in an email to The Huffington Post. "The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical and ironic, and even darkly beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity."

For the 2012 installation " Sandstars," Gabriel Orozco arranged over 1,200 objects from the Isla Arena, Mexico trash repository on the Guggenheim Museum's floor, accompanied by a dozen large, gridded photographs depicting the individual objects in a studio setting. The found treasures bring hints of the ignored wastelands into a gallery setting, forcing viewers to confront the effects of industrial and commercial refuse.

The 2013 phenomenon that was the " Rain Room" invited MoMA viewers to experience a deluge of falling water without getting wet. According to the museum's description for the exhibition EXPO 1: New York, "the work invites visitors to explore the roles that science, technology, and human ingenuity can play in stabilizing our environment."

Agnes Denes is a giant among land artists. Her most well-known project is probably the 1982 piece "Wheatfield -- A Confrontation," in which she planted a field of golden wheat on two acres of a landfill near Wall Street and the World Trade Center in Manhattan. She weeded, irrigated and cultivated the mini oasis, bringing the essence of rural America into the throngs of America's urban epicenter. The confrontation was between nature and artifice.

Christo and the late Jeanne-Claude are well known for their massive land artworks that serve to remind viewers of the natural wonders scattered around the planet. For " Surrounded Islands," the two artists encircled 11 islands in Biscayne Bay, Miami with 6.5 million square feet of floating pink woven polypropylene fabric. In the process, they cleaned up 40 tons of garbage from the floating land masses.

French artist Mathilde Roussel created a series of living grass installations that take the shape of human beings. Made of recycled material and fabric filled with soil and wheat grass seeds, the pieces are meant to symbolize the centrality of food. " Observing nature and being aware of what and how we eat makes us more sensitive to food cycles in the world -- of abundance, of famine -- and allows us to be physically, intellectually and spiritually connected to a global reality," the artist explains.

For "The People's United Nations (pUN)" exhibition at Queens Museum in New York, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes made climate change and geo-engineering points of focus for his diplomatic performance piece. He even served grasshopper burgers during a lunch break to participants in the 193-person assembly to highlight the carbon footprint of meat. " Protein from insects is the way of the future," the artist proclaimed to HuffPost.

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18 Green Artists Who Are Making Climate Change A Priority

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Environmental artists have been praised not only for great works they create, but also for raising awareness about environmental problems our planet faces... Environmental art is a very broad term, and it includes a number of different practices and movements. , Earth art, Sustainable art, Conceptual Art - these are only a few movements that can be described as environmental art as well. That is why environmental artists are using a wide range of media, techniques and styles. Even Claude Monet is often described as an environmentalist for his famous paintings where the creators explored humans' relation to nature ( London Series paintings, for example).

As a movement, environmental art emerged in the 1960s when famous individuals such as Nils Udo, Jean-Max Albert and Piotr Kowalski paved the way for this form of art expression. They have been continuously creating environment-related work since then thus spreading the ideas of environmental art. Speaking about them, it's important to make a distinction between those who are not focused so much on environmental issues and those who are part of this movement particularly aiming to explore relations between nature and the human world, aiming to raise awareness toward ecological problems. Some famous land creatives, such as and Robert Smithson (who made the famous Spiral Jetty) were criticized for permanent ecological damage some of their pieces had caused. However, working within the field of arts, many of them have spent a lot of time exploring the relationship between mankind's world and the natural environment.

How Environmental Art Can Change the World?

In general, there is no strict definition of environmental art. However, many environmental artists help us to understand nature; environmental art is concerned with environmental forces and materials; it re-envisions humans' relations with nature and remediates damaged environments. In addition, one of the main characteristics of environmental art is that is usually created for one particular place, cannot be moved, and obviously cannot be exhibited in museums or galleries. But, there are exceptions, as environmental artists use a wide range of different techniques in order to elevate environment art to new grounds.

Editors' Tip: Land and Environmental Art

The book Land and Environmental Art is edited by Jeffrey Kastner. The author describes the whole history of this movement, starting with the traditional landscape genre that was radically transformed in the 1960s. The author describes the art of Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson. This book fully documents the 1960s Land Art movement and surveys examples of Environmental Art to the present day. Brian Wallis (the contributor) discusses the key names, pieces and issues that define Land Art historically, as well as its later ramifications. Earthworks, environments, performances and actions by names ranging from Ana Mendieta in the 1970s and 80s to Peter Fend in the 1990s are illustrated with great photographs, sketches and project notes.

Scroll Down and See Some of the Most Notable Environmental Artists of Our Time!

Robert Morris - One of the Pioneers of Land Art

Apart from being one of the most important theoreticians of Minimalism, Robert Morris is also known as one of the most important environmental artists. He is better known as a conceptualist, sculptor, but many of his land and environmental art projects concern environmental issues. For example, during the 1970s, Morris began creating figurative art, much of it dealing with the fear of a nuclear war. One of his most notable land art pieces is The Observatory, located in Flevoland, in the Netherlands. This environment art piece is known for its references to Stonehenge in England.
Featured Images: Robert Morris - Observatorium
Chris Jordan - Exposing Consumeristic Culture

Chris Jordan is a Seattle-based artist who used to be a lawyer. This environmental artist became recognized for his photographs depicting garbage and other "products" of consumerist culture. His pieces can be quite shocking. He combines photography with technology and digital tools creating artworks that Jordan himself describes as "slow-motion apocalypse". Jordan's art reminds us how easily we destroy our environment and our planet.
Featured Images: Chris Jordan - Albatross chick on Midway Island, detail (courtesy of inland360.com); Chris Jordan
Agnes Denes - The Grandmother of Environmental Art Movement

Agnes Denes is a Hungarian-born conceptual artist living and working in New York City. Often called "the grandmother" of the early environmental art movements, Denes is interested in humans' perception of natural cycles and stewardship. Without any doubt, her most famous environmental art project is Wheatfield, a Confrontation from 1982. Denes spent six months creating it, which included planting a field of golden wheat on two acres of a rubble-strewn landfill near Wall Street in Manhattan.
Featured Images: Agnes Denes - Wheatfield, a Confrontation (courtesy of observer.com); Agnes Denes (courtesy of nytimes)
Edith Meusnier - Mixing Textile and Environment

Edith Meusnier is a French and environmental artist. Through her art, Meusnier examines the notions of sustainability and vulnerability. Her textile installations are placed outdoors, in places such as castles' parks, the cloisters of monasteries, parks in front of museums. She starts every new project by choosing specific location, since different settings defines her installations. Her pieces are highly colored, often joyful, however questioning important themes, such as public space and art, sustainability and other environment-related issues.
Featured Image: Edith Meusnier - Artwork
Nils-Udo - One of the Main Figures of Environmental Art Movement

Nils-Udo is one of the main figures of the environmental art movements. He has been creating this form of art for decades now and he is known for creating "utopias" in nature, trying to prove that they can be real. As the artist explains: Even if I work parallel to nature and only intervene with the greatest possible care, a basic internal contradiction remains. It is a contradiction that underlies all of my work, which itself can't escape the inherent fatality of our existence. It harms what it touches: the virginity of nature...To realize what is possible and latent in Nature, to literally realize what has never existed, utopia becomes reality. A second life suffices. The event has taken place. I have only animated it and made it visible.
Featured Images: Nils-Udo in 2011; Nils-Udo - Artwork detail (courtesy of nsconover.com)
Andy Goldsworthy - Artist and Environmentalist

British-born artist Andy Goldsworthy is another famous environmental artist who creates site-specific installations using materials such as mud, twigs, snow, colorful flowers. Goldsworthy is also an environmentalist. His works can be found in urban areas and in natural setting. This is how Goldsworthy characterizes his art: Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
Featured Images: Andy Goldsworthy (courtesy of sailingdog.org); Andy Goldsworthy - Artwork (courtesy of therongolianstar.com)
Red Earth Environmental Art Group

creates site-specific work interacting with the landscape: performances, installations and participatory events. Led by artists and co-directors Caitlin Easterby and Simon Pascoe, the group has produced works in Europe, Java, Japan and Mongolia. What is particularly interesting about the art of this group is their collective and participatory approach towards art creation. They collaborate and work not only with other arts creatives, but with geologists, activists, archaeologists, and so on.
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One TCU graphic design student provided his talents to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Junior Derek Bowers was hired by his uncle, the owner of Adirondack Distilling Co., a small distillery in Utica, N.Y., to design a new product label when the distillery switched from producing spirits to making hand sanitizer amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

Like many distilleries nationwide that made a similar move, Adirondack Distilling Co. had to act fast to get its hand sanitizer on the market. Bowers spent one week developing the product label, including researching the rules and regulations of the Food and Drug Administration, developing the logo and laying out content-a quick turnaround for a design project like this one.

The result was the Hand In Hand Instant Hand Sanitizer label.

"Normally with design projects, I start by brainstorming ideas without limitations on concept or theme," said Bowers. "This time, it was almost the opposite. I had to start by learning the different regulations and rules [for creating a label with] medical information, on top of regular limitations that a client would tell a designer, like the number of colors that I could use and the content of some of the copy."

Bowers was originally tasked with using only one color on the label, which helps keep the cost of printing down. According to FDA regulations, a label's drug facts are required to be in black, which wasn't the look Bowers wanted for the product's logo. Ultimately, he selected a shade of green for the brand's design to signify health and safety. Another challenge was the small size of the label for a four-ounce bottle.

Yet, Bowers said the experience was "extremely exciting" because of the fast timeline. He credits many of his design courses and professors at TCU with the success of the Hand In Hand label design.

"My design entrepreneurship class with Dusty Crocker helped me navigate the process of working with clients in a freelance setting." -Derek Bowers

"My design entrepreneurship class with Dusty Crocker helped me navigate the process of working with clients in a freelance setting and taught me which questions to ask to get the creative process rolling quickly and efficiently," said Bowers. "Each of my typography classes with Jan Ballard, David Elizalde and Lewis Glaser helped me learn how to think outside of the box to find creative solutions for projects. My current classes in corporate identity (with Bill Brammer) and experience design class (with Yvonne Cao) have helped with the way that I approach designing projects like these, where I start to think about the user and the main purpose first, rather than what would be the easy way out to please the client."

Since Hand In Hand Instant Hand Sanitizer hit the market, Adirondack Distilling Co. and its distributing partner, Mountainside Medical Equipment, have received orders for more than 1.5 million bottles. As a result of Bowers' dedicated and professional work on the Hand In Hand label, he will soon start on another project for Adirondack Distilling Co., designing a vintage-style label for a brand new spirit.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed lives, disrupted economies, and changed daily existence as we know it. It has also shown us how strong we can be, and how creative, even in isolation. For this portfolio, part of our special June/July issue, we asked a bevy of photographers, filmmakers, creative directors, and performance artists to give us a glimpse of their lives under lockdown.

What is now the photographer 's atelier was once the home of his grandmother, an avid gardener. He remembers and engages with her memory now by shooting flowers. "These kinds of moments are very rich and peaceful," he says.

Asked what is keeping her calm and collected right now, the photographer -pictured with her son, Leo-replied: "Going back to basics. Home, nature, being in the day."

"I took this image when I was in a moment of despair about the world, to be honest," the photographer says. "So the idea of getting dressed up or taking a 'fun' selfie with fashion wasn't exciting me. But I was really into the foot-on-the-world graphic on my T-shirt, which is from Monty Python. I feel it nicely summed up the state of things."

Tina Barney, Rhode Island

"I've been making works on paper from my own photographs and snapshots since the 1990s," says Barney from her home. "I thought this would be fun and more gratifying than just taking a selfie with an iPhone."

"To be represented as a blur could be reflective of the passing of time," the photographer says, appearing here with his partner, Constanza. "Gardening has been extremely satisfying, and a way of being directly in contact with nature: To observe something that progresses so slowly-the simplicity of a fern pushing through the soil and unfurling over a week-has definitely installed a new sense of calm in me."

" In the Waiting is an ongoing series where I attempt to take a photograph every day during my COVID-19 quarantine," the London-born photographer and filmmaker says. "It's a process that has not only humbled me, but also allowed me to face a vulnerability in my work that I thought I'd lost. In the Waiting will document these anxious times, and serve as a placeholder to remember that stillness is also life, and chaos can birth beautiful ideas."

"This is the timed lockbox I put my phone in when I write," says July. "During quarantine I feel somewhat justified in my off-the-charts level of screen time; we have to connect somehow, right? But, just as before quarantine, constant, low-grade connection kind of destroys my capacity for writing-which, in the end, is also about connection. So re-finding that balance has been a challenge all over again."

Daniel Jackson, Millbrook, New York

"This picture is of my youngest, Noah, confined indoors, directing the invasion of the kitchen table and interrupting his brother and sister's online school," the photographer says. "It brings an optimism and energy to us during this challenging time."

"I've been photographing for about five years, and this is the second time I've ever tried to photograph myself and the first time where my face is actually in the image," says Mckenzie. "I think a lot usually about how my subject feels when I'm photographing them; it's important that they feel comfortable and empowered, and I usually connect with them during those moments on an energetic or personal level in order to represent them properly. When it came to photographing myself, I felt awkward at first. I'm so used to seeing and finding the beauty in others, but through this I've had to really find it in myself."

Nigel Shafran, Devon, England

"Isolation has given me so much time to breathe. After nonstop travel the past few years, this moment of stillness has been really grounding," the photographer says. Her idle hours are mostly devoted to "reading a lot, meditation, connecting with friends and family around the world, and living in the present moment."

The New York-based photographer has a knack for capturing kooky, almost psychedelic still-lifes. Here, he combines two unlikely subjects: snails and citrus. "I've had snails as pets for a few years now," says Doherty. "These ones are a few months old; they spend most of their days sleeping in their shells, but I've been taking them out and playing with them more often now. I basically spend all day staring at my snails and the fruits and flowers I've bought to cheer myself up. Blobs of bright colors smooshed together make me feel good."

"These photos make up a portrait of me at this time," says the photographer. "They were taken in the last few weeks either at home or nearby while social distancing. Many of the objects in these photos were collected while traveling with photography."

"I'm wearing what has become my quarantine uniform. Not quite pajamas, not quite on-duty clothing. As long as I do Zoom meetings from the waist up, no one can see my favorite pair of ill-fitting lounge pants," says the New York City-based photographer, who routinely mines the space between observational and staged photography. "If you wear the same thing every day, there's more time to think about how I'm going to use the same ingredients from yesterday to make something different for lunch today."

Diamond Stingily, New York

"This is a portrait my friend, the gallerist and artist Sam Lipp, is painting of me while he is isolated in his studio," says the American-born artist. "The title of the portrait is Diamond at Her Grandma's. "

Moises Saman, Amman, Jordan

The American-Spanish photojournalist took this image in late March. As he describes it: "A lone man sits on the balcony of an apartment building in the Abdoun district of Amman, during a country-wide curfew imposed by the Jordanian government to fight the spread of COVID-19."

"To make a photograph can be a form of daytime dreaming," the Norwegian-born photographer says. "I don't reject the subtle symbols that bubble up. The part of a photograph that crosses a line has perhaps less weight and little nutritional value, but visually it's everything. So also with this citrus from a corner store here in Highbury." He continues, "The unusually vivid and sunny spring gives a sense of hope. Later this week I'll be able to process photographic film again, so things are looking up. These are the sweet little lies I tell myself."

"My wife took the picture of me, says the photographer. "We adopted three cats, a parrot, and the (ever-growing) pig. The red inflatable suit was given to me by a friend last year. One day, the sun was shining. I put it on, and my wife took this picture on the balcony with my pig. The pig slept happily and didn't notice that I was different from usual."

Gordon von Steiner, New York

"There is nothing keeping me calmer and more hopeful than the 7 p.m, cheer that happens every evening in New York," says the director. "If I stand at the edge of the East River in Williamsburg, I can hear cheering from Manhattan across the water. I love that."

Rafa Esparza, Los Angeles

In his performance work, the multidisciplinary artist has typically used a mask of his face to establish a "psychological distance" between himself and his audience. Here, however, he's created a "corona mask," which he wears with a T-shirt bearing a pointed message. "It's important now more than ever to support folks in dire states of neglect and danger through the work of organizations seeking justice for migrant communities in detention, who are the most vulnerable to the threat of COVID-19," he says. Surrounding him are various family members: "Behind me is a portrait I painted of my dear hermanx San Cha, an L.A.-based musician helping soothe my days with her angelic voice. With me is also my younger cousin Pedro Zamora, an emerging photographer who took my picture."

Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Los Angeles

"I've been away from my studio this entire lockdown, just going once to bring my computer and cameras home after the first week," says the photographer. "Every week or so I try to make a few pictures, and have been using multiple exposures to layer observations from home. Nothing fancy, but it yields a little something to do."

"I take a lot of nature walks, listen to audiobooks, do some gardening, and I enjoy taking photographs and videos with my iPhone," says the Iranian-born artist. "I am starting to like my new 'country' look, wearing jeans, boots, hats-but always with my heavy eyeliner on!"

Quinn Wilson, Maui, Hawaii

"Although she's not in the photo, my girlfriend took [this picture of me]," says the creative director. "I'm fortunate enough to be quarantined with people I love. My girlfriend and I are writing together, which has been an incredibly collaborative experience and has helped keep my focus on creativity and off anxiety (which, honey, I have a lot of)."

"I think staying healthy and active brings a sense of control in these crazy times. Also keeping the creative conversations going with my friends and coming up with projects we can still realize under these circumstances," says the fashion photographer. "[For] this image...we were discussing ways to keep making things with my friend Francelle, who is an amazing makeup artist, so she dropped off products from her brand Lovecraft Beauty at my door. Then she directed me on Zoom to do my own makeup and we did a little beauty story while staying safe."

"After five weeks on the campaign trail for Vogue, I escaped to Europe to take part in a sparsely attended art show in Brussels," the photographer says. "I took this photo rushing back to Paris by train before they shut the border. Eventually I made it back to an ominous, lonesome New York City." Yet there's a sign of hope hiding in his image. "If you look closely, you can see the camera strap that my closest friends got me for my birthday years ago. It's a reminder that one of these days, these days will end."

The photographer is best known for her portraits of celebrities-Jay-Z, Solange, and Bella Hadid, to name a few-but for her own self-portrait, she went with something more ethereal. "This is a representation of how I'm feeling," she says of the split-screen shot. "I'm home, quarantined with myself, feeling boxed-in but also feeling free."

"I have been spending a lot of my quarantine going through the un- or underused items in my closet and upcycling or mending them into things that I am excited to wear again," says the photographer. "Before the pandemic, I was working with the OR Foundation, a not-for-profit organization focused on the global impacts of fashion/clothing waste, and I'm taking this opportunity to turn that research more pointedly on myself," he says. "Beyond my closet, I have also been honing my sewing skills by helping my close friend and collaborator Hillary Taymour of Collina Strada create masks for health care workers. We spent part of a day together alternating between making masks and making this image by playing dress-up."

Inez and Vinoodh, Long Island, New York

The Dutch photographers thought back-or perhaps forward-to better times while creating their image: "Our happiest moments are when all our friends are together for dinner at our home, talking, cooking, sharing food, and supporting each other through life's ups and downs."

Alana O'Herlihy, Los Angeles

For her highly stylized self-portrait, the artist dreamt up a character named Brooklyn. "It is an ode to my hometown of New York, which I miss so very much right now as I am quarantined in Los Angeles," she says. "Brooklyn has taken up a new hobby of bobbing for apples and working on her suntan during this trying time. She is more and more perplexed as the days go on, but can find solace in counting apples."

Quarantined at home with his family, the photographer models a makeup look conceived by his daughters, Martha and Mila. Helping to keep him at ease, Wetherell says, is "sleeping well and a little bit of wine."

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Creativity in Crisis: How Some of Our Favorite Photographers and Visual Artists Are Coping in Quarantine

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What is now the photographer 's atelier was once the home of his grandmother, an avid gardener. He remembers and engages with her memory now by shooting flowers. "These kinds of moments are very rich and peaceful," he says. Asked what is keeping her calm and collected right now, the photographer -pictured with her son, Leo-replied: "Going back to basics.

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Newsela | "Defund the police": Cities respond to demands for a major law enforcement shift

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Newsela | Face masks with windows mean more than smiles to the members of the deaf community

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Face masks with windows around the mouth help people with impaired hearing meet the challenges of the pandemic.

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Mixed media is a way of talking about art that is created from the combination of different artistic media. In art circles, it sometimes indicates a mindset of seeing anything and everything as having the potential to create art.

Mixed media paintings frequently take the form of integrated collages, where objects, photos, and words are integrated into the painting. These kinds of paintings can trick the eye in some cases, using texturing and collage to create interesting values and shades. In many cases the mixed media approach helps to draw attention to how very different parts come together to create a complex representation.

It can also combine forms to include 3D and relief sculpture into the collage and painting. This allows the art to reinterpret and expand on traditional media. Furthermore, mixed media helps to expand the possibilities of the canvas, allowing water or oil-based media to express alongside acrylics, marbling, pour art, and prints.

There are so many amazing mixed media artists creating expressive and interesting works of art that we wish we could share them all. Here are a few famous artists who have caught our interest with the way that they combine different media into strong whole compositions.

1. Pablo Picasso and Cubist Collage

To find mixed inspiration, we started at its beginning, Cubist art of the 20th century, represented by Picasso among other modern painters, often depicted three-dimensional objects from different points of view at once, by fragmenting and redefining the different viewpoints.

Not only did this alter expectations of perspective, but cubist collage also used a variety of media including paint, pasted paper, oilcloth, and even chair caning. This would help to incorporate small parts of the actual object into the cubist reinterpretation of the object.

A Nigerian-born artist, Akunyili Crosby uses collage as a media that can help bridge the culture of her native Nigeria with her adopted culture in America. She uses photos, paint, colored pencils and charcoals, and even textiles to create strong textures that incorporate the different parts of the painting. Ultimately, the contrasts create distinct tones in the same painting with an overall significant and evocative design.

Finnabair is an art journaler who uses prominent collage in her art to interpret mood and tone. Her art employs strong texturing and an eye for overall design and composition. This style has its roots in crafting and compiling a whole from individual elements. The collage-style does not hold back on using any media that will help to shape and convey the piece, including paints, metallics, waxes, and objects.

Martha Haversham is an artist from the UK who creates fashion pieces out of found objects. In some cases, this includes making a real flower into a skirt and painting legs beneath, however, this can also include garbage objects, such as cigarette butts and discarded candy wrappers. The style offers a more minimalistic side to collage. Each painting would look at home in a fashion ad but with a little trickery of the mind involved.

David Fullarton reports to have once despised the classic well-made notebook. In his art, he gets his revenge by filling the notebook with comedic mixed media art and journaling. The style is reminiscent of teenage chaotic doodling and writing as the journaler learns to self-interpret and make sense of the world.

Erik Wahlstrom's mixed media paintings are album artwork visions crafted for the experimental Swedish band Familjen. The images represent deconstructed men, who are fragments and mostly featureless. To achieve the collage effect, Erik Wahlstrom uses his photography in addition to design principles.

London-based Nikki Farquharson uses bold colors and print-like designs for the inked collage effects of her artwork. The style uses photography and clean line-art in a combination of colors and textures. In this case, the girl who is at the center of each pattern gives context to the patterns around her, and not the other way around.

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7 Famous Artists Who Are Known for Mixed Media Paintings

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June 23, 2020

When Laura Hatcher, graphic designer and adjunct professor in the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education, heard about the United Nations' first creative brief, she brought it to her Graphic
Design 3 students.

On March 30, the U.N. asked creatives to design messaging around stopping the spread of COVID-19, focusing on key messages like proper hygiene,
physical distancing and myth busting.

The opportunity naturally built on one of the course's assigned readings, "How Good
is Good" by Stefan Sagmeister, in which the designer reflects upon his experiences
after September 11, 2001.

"We discussed the role of a creative professional during a crisis," Hatcher says.
"I told them about this call to creatives, and they were totally on board."

Unlike many graphic design projects, which ask students to create work for imaginary
clients or situations, this opportunity wasn't just an exercise.

"It was tough, and it was emotional," Hatcher adds. "Some of them had lost family
members already to the pandemic. There were tears. It was very heavy, but what was
so great was to see how the students were supporting each other. And then to get the
feedback from them that it felt so good to be able to do something to help."

She also shared the Viral Art Project, a call to designers to create public service announcement (PSA) posters that spread
awareness about COVID-19, hosted by Washington, D.C.-based creative agencies and organizations.

Hatcher and her students approached their projects by first identifying and researching
their target audience: the students' own social networks. They looked at the messages
they were and weren't seeing in their networks and then compared those to the facts
and public health messaging surrounding COVID-19.

"We also talked about how they could each use their specific skills, the thing they're
really good at, to make the most impact," Hatcher says. "Are they really good with
illustration? Are they good with humor? Are they great with photography? And translate
that to make the most impactful graphic they could."

The class shared concepts and mockups with each other in small groups and through
a Slack channel. They shared the final product on their personal social media pages.

Hatcher says students learned about the amount of misinformation available, especially
on social media, and their responsibility as visual communicators.

"It was a really good experience for them, and I was really proud of how they worked
through all of it," Hatcher says.

They also learned there's no one way to approach a problem. "We all had the same challenge,
but there are a million different creative solutions, and they all have different
benefits to them."

Deepika Chauhan

"In my poster, I am portraying how coronavirus can be spread by even a small droplet
and what steps we can take to protect ourselves and others. To convey this message,
I combined hand-drawn patterns with bold typography calling viewers to take action.
Together we can stop the pandemic by following guidelines for the coronavirus set
by the CDC."

Kelsey Fitzpatrick

"This project helped me grapple with the emotional complexities of our lives in social
isolation. I created this graphic to show that we are not alone. Social distancing
can be hard, but with love from friends and family, we can make a difference. Through
making a Zoom meeting call spelling out "ALL IN THIS TOGETHER," we are spreading the
awareness of the ones who are mentally struggling through this outbreak. We are calling
on one another to help us grow together and stop the spread."

Jalyn Tolliver

"In my poster I am portraying the severity of COVID-19 on all of us. My main mission
is to debunk the myth that different races or ethnicities are immune to COVID-19.
During this pandemic we should all stay informed with the latest credible updates
on the virus and try our best to do our part in getting through this hard time."

Rachel Bunger

"To bring further awareness of the precautions we should take during this pandemic,
I have highlighted one of the precautions we should all practice-wearing a mask. Wearing
a face covering not only protects you but others as well."

Shreyesh Shrestha

"During my research for the COVID-19 pandemic, I wanted to focus on the age group
of 18 to 25. I found that most of my friends and their friends were using dating apps
because of social isolation. So this sparked an idea, where the dating app took over
the world of our generation. I decided to put the symptoms and the thing people don't
do in the bio. The main goal is to tell people to not go out and swipe left for COVID-19."

Delaney Wiggins

"I recently had a very close friend of mine suffer from domestic abuse during quarantine.
I didn't know how scary it was for her to be trapped in a small apartment with her
abuser, all I knew was that I needed to get her out. It's important to spread awareness
about the severity of domestic abuse during a time like this and not let it get pushed
under the rug. If you know anyone who may be struggling, be the light for them."

Bridget Devoy

"Often you are shamed for wanting to be lazy and stay home to relax; for once that's
what it takes to be the hero. Staying home helps prevent you from getting sick as
well as protects others from having it spread."

Hayley Koteff

"After doing research on my audience-teens and young adults-I found one of the biggest
issues is the difference between social distancing and social isolation. Social distancing
is not the same thing as social isolation, though to many people, it may feel like
the same. These graphics were made to remind the viewer the difference and the many
ways you can still stay in contact with friends and family while social distancing."
This press release was produced by Towson University. The views expressed here are the author's own.

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It's an image of a nurse with her hands pressed together in prayer. In bold letters below her hands, it says "bless the healers."

The illustration, designed by the artist Marvin Madariaga, has been shared across social media. Some people have posted it in the window of their home. And it's been projected on the side of a building in the heart of New York City.

In health crises, people have long turned to the arts to inform and inspire. During the 1980s AIDS epidemic, the words "silence = death" were printed on posters, pins and patches. And during the 2014 Ebola crisis, murals with the slogan "Ebola is real" were painted across West Africa.

The coronavirus pandemic is no different. Two organizations, the United Nations and Amplifier, an arts group, launched independent campaigns in March inviting artists to submit artwork around the coronavirus. Tens of thousands of submissions later, the groups are now showcasing a selection of these works to the public.

Madariaga's artwork was submitted to Amplifier, which coordinated some of the iconic poster designs around the Women's March on Washington in 2016.

"In times of uncertainty, art is more than beauty or decoration - it's a tool. Art can heal, art can save lives, art can bring us together - even when we're apart," says Aaron Huey, founder of Amplifier. "It can be a compass to guide us through the storm."

In March, the U.N. put out an open brief, or request, calling on artists to produce "concise and impactful visuals to help share life-saving information on COVID-19."

"The idea was really to try and lean into the creative community, to try and help identify, interpret, and amplify the messages that were keeping people safe," says Dawda Jobarteh of the U.N., who helped organize the campaign.

Since then, it has received nearly 17,000 designs from artists in 143 countries, ranging from photography to animation, graphic design to hand-drawn posters.

Some submissions focus on unity. In one, Mexican artist Lisa Saldivar depicts the facade of an apartment building, as a crowd of people converse. Bubble letters frame the piece: "kindness not cancelled."

Other submissions, like one from Russian artist Irina Chaitsyna, emphasize important health messages. Her illustration shows people engaged in activities like exercising and painting spelling out the words "stay home" with their bodies.

After the call for submissions ended on April 14, the U.N. evaluated the designs to ensure that they were promoting accurate health messaging according to the World Health Organization's safety guidelines. On April 30, it made the vetted images available in an online portal - and are now encouraging people to view the images, download and share. There is no cash prize, but the U.N. will feature some of the artwork on their social media channels.

Amplifier's campaign had a slightly different brief. On May 8 it ended a campaign calling on artists to create visuals that promote mental health and well-being amid the pandemic. It also called for artwork that envisions life after lockdown.

Since then, it has received over 10,500 submissions - with 100 entrants selected for a $1,000 individual cash prize. Like the U.N., selected images are also available on Amplifier's website for people to download for free and share.

Amplifier is taking things a step further by turning some of the submissions into a series of public art installations in cities around the world, in partnership with the arts group The Illuminator. In addition to being projected onto a building in New York City, Madariaga's nurse poster also wallpapers a building on Oxford Street in London.

Passersby are snapping photos of the installations and posting it to social media. "This is so dope," writes Instagram user @where_bry_at, of a projection depicting a black female health worker in a mask. "I love the message, the representation and the encouragement."

Praising the efforts, Glen Nowak, director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication and a professor of advertising at the University of Georgia, says public art campaigns like these can help drive home important messages around a health crisis. He cites the AIDS Memorial Quilt as an example. First created in 1987, the quilt is a vast patchwork of more than 50,000 panels commemorating the lives of the epidemic's victims - while helping the public comprehend the reality of the crisis.

Unlike other kinds of messaging, art is colorful, engaging and provocative, says Nowak. And for that reason, it "can grab people's attention" in a special way.

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It's an image of a nurse with her hands pressed together in prayer. In bold letters below her hands, it says "bless the healers." The illustration, designed by the artist Marvin Madariaga, has been shared across social media. Some people have posted it in the window of their home.

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Artists can use just about any material to create a masterpiece - and from any I mean even junk. Such is called recycled art and is created using common things that you usually throw in the junk which makes recycled art not just beautiful but eco-friendly as well.

So, here is a showcase of jaw-dropping pieces of art created from junk material. These materials include old computer chips, cassette tape, fabric, and scrap metal. Let's jump right to the list.

Jeu Dechecs

BRC Designs

'BRC' stands for Benjamin Rollins Caldwell, founder of the BRC Designs who reforms timeless and unconventional materials into simple yet unique furniture which design surpasses most expensive furniture.

Binary Low Table

Korobeiniki Chair

Protrusion Low Table

Andrew Chase by the Chase studio is a photographer and one of the few artists who has the talent to form an epic dinosaur with mere metals. His metal sculptures also include elephant, cheetah, bear, etc.

Dinosaur

Elephant

Cheetah

Derek has achieved national attention for his collage portrait series, recycling magazines, labels and found materials to create works on canvas. Those series has showed his interest in the natural beauty of figure and the fearless attitude of play.

Collage 07

Collage 09

Collage 17

Erika Iris Simmons

A.k.a Iri5, Erika Iris Simmons specializes in using non traditional media like cassettes to create absolutely unique and memorable works that feature famous people or team like Kurt Cobain, Beatles and Michael Jackson.

Ghost In The Machine - Michael Jackson

Ghost In The Machine - The Beatles

Ghost In The Machine - Kurt Cobain

Guerra de la Paz is the composite name that represents the creative team efforts of Cuban artists, Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz, who have been collaborated since 1996. Gaining access to an overabundance of discarded clothing, they used clothes as their main unconventional materials to produce a series of beautiful and inspiring recycled art which are shown below.

Ring Around The Rosy

Bonsai

Spring

Fall

Winter

Her name is Heather Jansch, and her passion lies within drawing and horses. Heather Jansch was told to leave college's course with the reason that she did not have the talent of being a painter. But then, she decided to pursue what she loves and finally came out with driftwood horses below which looks like they are living things with feeling!

Apollo

Nightmare And Daydream III

Jane Perkins
"I started making richly decorated brooches in my final year, using broken jewellery, plastic toys and other small found objects. Inspiration came from festival headdresses from Ecuador discovered while researching my thesis on art from recycled materials. The headdresses, covered with all kinds of shiny and odd things, are bizarre and quirky, yet beautiful - I love them!"
Obama

The Queen

Mandela

Based in Brighton, Kyle Bean specializes in hand crafted models, set design and art direction. Since his graduation in 2009, he has worked across a variety of platforms which include installations, window displays, editorial and advertising.

His works, such as What Came First showcased below has really showed his unusual creativity.

What Came First

Miguel Rivera

Ever imagined that your boring hard drive can be very cool too? Rivera has done it by combining hard drives and spare parts to form sensational bike, car and even robot. He wishes to show to others of what are hard drives look like in creative way, and he has done it very well.

Hark Disk Drive Robot

Hark Disk Drive Bike

Hard Disk Drive Car

Leo Seowell

Leo has developed his own art style over the last 50 years. His notable works are mostly composed by charming plastic objects, metals and woods and were collected by corporations, museums and individuals all over the world.

Dog

Teddy Bear

Jesus Christ

Lin Evola-Smidt

Best known for her sculpture Renaissance Peace Angel which is showcased below, Lin Evola-Smidt creates her works with a single purpose, to promote world peace. Creation process of her works involves melting down weapons and reform them into art that shows gracefulness and peacefulness.

Renaissance Peace Angel

I was never a big fan of floppy disk but Nick Gentry has changed my mind with his sensational floppy disk paintings. The most epic part of his painting is perhaps the shiny circular part of the disk which mostly represents the eyes of the painted character.

Body language

A digital composition

Binary bound

Recycle Art is the master of turning car/ motorcycle parts, screws and toothed wheels into extremely unique sculptures with terrifying quality. Their works are beyond epic, and can be used as either advertisement for your garage or absolute eye catcher in the club.

Sea Dragon

Turtle

Big Ant

Angel

Metal Rhino

Indian On Horse

Robert Bradford
"For a long time now I have preferred to use materials that are not bland i.e. have some kind of history of weathering or use. One day about four years ago out in the studio I was looking into my children's box of outgrown / discarded toys which happened to be stored in the same building and responded to the random collection of colours shapes and forms they made. I figured that if I could find a way of putting them together to constitute a larger form they would have great potential as larger scale sculpture."
The Dog

The Rabbit

RoboSteel

With steel as main material, Robosteel designs and creates handmade steel sculptures which includes movie character, earth's life form, vehicle and custom commissioned work. Despite steel, they also used small amounts of copper and ceramic material to create certain desired effect for their works.

And yes, all their materials used in the work are recycled from cars, motorbikes and airplanes.

Recycled Optimus Prime

Recycled Bumblebee

Recycled Wall-E

Sara Bergando

Scraps of felt + Old mobile phone's battery charger + Circuit of 50 LED low-power = Ribbon of light with luxurious feel! Credit to the creative creator Sara Bergando.

Ribbon Of Light

Ribbon Of Light 2

Sandrine Estrade Boulet

Artist Sandrine Estrade Boulet wants to tell you that you can live a funny and happy day with simple things in our world, and that's how the White Vador was born.

White Vador

Steven Rodrig

If you have love for circuit board, you should remember Steven Rodrig. He's an innovative artist who restructures discarded circuit boards and electronic parts to form extraordinary arts which are organic and mechanical at the same time. Without a doubt, he's a professional geek.

Data Transfer

Data Spider's Kingdom

Sea Turtle Searches Deep Data

Terrence Willment

Terrence Willment works with manufacturers in Thailand to create impressive recycled work using abandoned car parts and sells them in event like showroom.

Alien

Tom Deininger

Tom Deininger is the master of collage art. His collage works are not only beautiful, but makes you really think that how your discarded little items can form sensational art like his works.

Marilyn

Self Portrait

Yong Ho Ji

Yong Ho Ji is a Korean artist who utilizes used tires into recycled masterpieces. His productions are mostly in the form of animal which some of them are shown below, but he also creates cool mutants which are either combined by 2 animals or an animal and a human.

Lion

Ram

Rhino

Wild Boar

Yuken Teruya

You probably need to change your view about toilet paper roll, as Yuken Teruya, an artist born in Okinawa, Japan has transformed them into art with immense beauty. The artist is currently working from his studio in New York City.

Corner Forest

Rain Forest

Similar to Tom Deininger, Zac Freeman is also a professional artist who excels in collage art. His works are greatly recognized, which brought him over 20 exhibitions in just 5 years.

Travis

David

Kathy

More Awesome Works:

Soda Can Dragon

This incredible dragon is produced completely by aluminum cans, and is located in the Paris Zoological Park at the Jardin de Plantes.
Image Source: austinevan
Solex

Handmade micro bicycle, how cute!
Image Source: Gerda Suzanna Vegt
Summary

Recycled art is not only something entertains you or artist makes for living, it also presents to you a great lesson: do not underestimate the power of even trash. I think this is the true beauty of the recycled art, showing us that with belief and passion, even abandoned item can become one of the most beautiful art in the world.

Did you make a recycled art before? Please kindly share with us if you have one, and don't forget to let us know which recycled art shocked you most!

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(Monmouth, ME) While sheltering in place in Monmouth, artist Amy Ray has been creating The Pandemic Series. The emotional aspect of the pandemic has fueled her as she searches for understanding and seeks out beauty in the physical world around us.

Ray's works involve a process of monoprinting and drawing in mixed media. The figurative abstractions evoke landscapes, figures, objects in lively color and movement.

Ray says, "I want these images to be open to the viewer to allow them to have a sense that they've been there before, to find the familiar, the reassuring, the hope and joy that is still possible."

About Amy Ray

A native of Eastport, Maine native, Ray earned her BFA at University of Southern Maine and her Masters of Fine Art from Brooklyn College. She has shown her work from Texas to New York and exhibits regularly in Maine, and has also curated shows including such artist Abbie Shahn, Larry Hayden and Steven Burt.

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(Monmouth, ME) While sheltering in place in Monmouth, artist Amy Ray has been creating The Pandemic Series. The emotional aspect of the pandemic has fueled her as she searches for understanding and seeks out beauty in the physical world around us. Ray's works involve a process of monoprinting and drawing in mixed media.

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A brilliant 2008 campaign by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been resurfacing thanks to a recent reddit post going viral. The campaign, called WWF Japan - Population by pixel, was created by the agency Hakuhodo C&D / Tokyo. The brains behind it were creative directors Nami Hoshino, Yoshiyuki Mikami, and designer Kazuhiro Mochizuki. Inspired by their work, Imgurian JJSmooth44 made a follow-up to their project and it's just as powerful as the original. "I did it as a programming challenge," JJSmooth44 wrote.

African Wild Dog. Estimated between 3000 and 5500 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

"I did it ... in python ... but the code is very gross. I only worried about the final product and not the readability/niceness of the code." They paid homage to Hakuhodo C&D / Tokyo by scraping the Animal Planet endangered animals list.

Amur Leopard. Estimated about 60 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Amur Tiger. Estimated about 450 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Asian Elephant. Estimated between 40000 and 50000 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Bengal Tiger. Estimated about 2500 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Black Footed Ferret. Estimated about 300 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Black Rhino. Estimated about 5000 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Blue Whale. Estimated between 10000 and 25000 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Bonobo. Estimated between 10000 and 50000 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Bornean Orangutan. Estimated between 45000 and 69000 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Borneo Pygmy Elephant. Estimated about 1500 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Chimpanzee. Estimated between 172700 and 299700 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Eastern Lowland Gorilla. Estimated about 17000 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Fin Whale. Estimated between 50000 and 90000 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Galapagos Penguin. Estimated about 2000 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Giant Panda. Estimated about 1864 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Green Sea Turtle. Estimated between 3000 and 5500 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Hectors Dolphin. Estimated about 7000 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Indian Elephant, Estimated between 20000 and 25000 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Indochinese Tiger. Estimated between 600 and 650 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Indus River Dolphin. Estimated about 1100 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Javan Rhino. Estimated about 60 remain

Image credits: JJSmooth44

Here's what people said about the project

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These 22 Pics Are Composed Of As Many Pixels As There Are Animals Still Alive In These Species

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A brilliant 2008 campaign by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been resurfacing thanks to a recent reddit post going viral. The campaign, called WWF Japan - Population by pixel, was created by the agency Hakuhodo C&D / Tokyo. The brains behind it were creative directors Nami Hoshino, Yoshiyuki Mikami, and designer Kazuhiro Mochizuki.

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Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu opened to a full house on Monday for its first concert since it closed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Yet not a single person had tickets - and that's because each one of the hall's 2,292 seats was occupied by a houseplant.

During the event, which was the work of conceptual artist Eugenio Ampudia, the leafy crowd was treated to a performance of Puccini's "Crisantemi" by the UceLi Quartet, according to a press release from the Liceu. And although no humans were in the audience, spectators could watch the "Concierto para el bioceno" via livestream.

Liceu's press release did not include any information as to whether the plants were regulars at the concert hall or green to the scene, but it did describe the event as "a highly symbolic act that defends the value of art, music and nature as a letter of introduction to our return to activity."

The UceLi Quartet string quartet rehearses in front of its green audience on Monday. After a strange, painful period, the creator, the Liceu's artistic director and the curator Blanca de la Torre offer us a different perspective for our return to activity, a perspective that brings us closer to something as essential as our relationship with nature."

That explanation seems to beat around the bush, but one thing that is crystal clear is that each of the plants will be donated to a health care worker at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona.

And that's something we can all root for.

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Barcelona Opera House Reopens With Concert For 2,292 Plants

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Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu opened to a full house on Monday for its first concert since it closed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet not a single person had tickets - and that's because each one of the hall's 2,292 seats was occupied by a houseplant.

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Around the country, artistic responses of all kinds.

Photographer Carrie Mae Weems, artist in residence at Syracuse University, launched a campaign to raise awareness, combining images of everyday life with direct messages on the need for precautions among people of color, who are disproportionately affected by the virus: "Don't worry, we will hold hands again. Sadly, you are the most impacted by COVID-19."

Sound artist Yuri Suzuki is collecting submissions for his now-virtual installation Sound of the Earth: Pandemic Chapter, a partnership with the Dallas Museum of Art.

To comfort critically ill patients, filmmaker Felipe Barral created a piece call Bella, streaming the natural world. Different creative ways to speak and act now.

In Queens, New York, one of the pandemic's epicenters, a meditation on the ghostly silence of the No. 7 subway line.

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Connecting through art when a pandemic keeps us apart

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American artists of all kinds are responding to the pandemic with new creations. As Jeffrey Brown reports, the art can serve as both a call to action and a means of healing -- for maker and audience alike. The story is part of our ongoing arts and culture series, Canvas.

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BLACK HILLS, S.D. - The movement is called 'A World of Hearts.'

It's a way to share hope during this time of uncertainly.

Driving around the Black Hills you may notice certain decor on people's windows and even the sidewalks. Participants are putting up rainbows, colorful heart cutouts, teddy bears and anything that resembles a sign of hope. And the message has been spreading all over social media and beyond.

The motivation is simple and varies from window to window - displaying a message of love from afar.

Marissa Layton, World of Hearts participant, says, "I started checking it out on Facebook and thought, 'what a little ray of sunshine to get to be a part of' and it's worldwide, so it's kind of fun to feel connected."

Marissa says she considers the project as part of her new home schooling art class, her daughter Charli was on board once she found out the meaning behind it. Charli picks out her favorite heart from the project and says, "It says, look on the bright side and not the dark side, we are all a piece of art work."

And others say they decorate their windows so families taking walks outside and getting fresh air will have a reminder that we are all in this together.

Some are participating because they want their neighbors who have been deemed essential workers to see some joy on their way to work.

Jackie Davis, World of Hearts participant, says, "I saw 'The World of Hearts' Facebook page and the Facebook group. It just kind of inspired me to create something on our own, plus it gave the little guy something else to do too. Some of my co workers started doing something at the hospital as well, so around our department there is now a whole bunch of some really cool design heart art work, so they really inspired me. Bring a smile to some people's faces."

A world coming together as we stay apart.

Charli says, "Because it's a lot of fun making it and because it brings people all together."

You can see more about the movement at #aworldofhearts.

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BLACK HILLS, S.D. - The movement is called 'A World of Hearts.' It's a way to share hope during this time of uncertainly. Charli Layton with heart window Driving around the Black Hills you may notice certain decor on people's windows and even the sidewalks.

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Artists sharing their isolation story through art. Discover their inspiring work and stories.

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Artists around the world are leaving hopeful street art in empty public spaces during the coronavirus pandemic.

Some murals show healthcare workers in superhero costumes.

Other street art shares encouraging messages like "Soon we'll get to hold each other again."

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The coronavirus pandemic has forced the public to stay inside and practice social distancing, but some street artists are still finding ways to beautify now-empty spaces with messages of hope and resilience.

The murals, posters, and graffiti springing up around the world celebrate healthcare workers and offer encouragement to passersby stepping outside to get some fresh air.

Here are 14 photos of uplifting street art artists have created during the pandemic.

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14 photos of uplifting street art spreading hope during the pandemic

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Artists around the world are leaving hopeful street art in empty public spaces during the coronavirus pandemic. Some murals show healthcare workers in superhero costumes. Other street art shares encouraging messages like "Soon we'll get to hold each other again." Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

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Always wanted to try a different art form-but aren't sure where to start? Sculpture practice feeling a little stale? Sick of sticking to collage? Want to add more dimension to your photography? It might be time to give mixed media art a try!

Mixed media art involves mixing different creative mediums to create work that incorporates two or more art forms. For example, you can add sculpture to your painting, or draw on top of photography prints. Mixed media is all about breaking the boundaries between different art forms.

Artists need to look at everything as a potential canvas. If you are a traditional artist who works with oil-based paints, for example, perhaps you could try painting on a woodblock, or a piece of furniture, or found objects like books or antique toys. Or, let's say, you work with embroidery, make-up or water-based paints-you can add in more delicate items, such as tea leaves, flower petals, and found photography. Digital artist? You can print out your creations on different materials and paint over them, or paste them onto a form to create a mixed media sculpture. These mixed media creations also make a wonderful addition to your art portfolio.

When starting your first mixed media creation, feel be to be playful-and get messy! The goal is to learn how the mediums can interact with each other, so don't be afraid to experiment. It's better to go too far and pull back for your next piece than to be too timid and never know what the mediums you use are capable of. As Ernest Hemingway said, "Write drunk and edit sober." The same goes for making mixed media art!

Paint mixes: Mix watercolors with pastels or acrylic paints, or try layering paper and wood into your artwork.

Techniques: Blend paint washes, paint with a credit card or give mixed media stencils a try.

Mixed media canvas: Add textures, memorabilia and even rocks to your canvas.

Remember: there are special kinds of paints for a variety of surfaces, from chalkboard paint and spray paint to fabric paint, so ask your local art supply store what's available. Also, don't forget to look around in your environment for things to paint on. There are tutorials online for nearly all forms of painting, including painting on tea bags which creates an interesting, aged effect. Etsy is also full of mixed media inspirations of what can be painted on, like butterfly-stenciled music sheets.

Building: With the right kind of glue, you can make a mixed-media sculpture out of anything, from a Lego minifigure to a backpack.

Carving: You can learn how to carve all kinds of materials, from pumpkins and books to ice.

Crochet and Embroidery: Consider crocheting a plushie or small sculpture, and adding embroidered patches on it. You can also paint on those and glue on whatever elements you want.

When creating traditional mixed media collage with found imagery, you want to avoid accidentally tearing your subject. These are some clean, easy ways to remove paper from magazines and books.

Now that you have a few options to get you started, here are some ways to spark your creativity for future mixed media art projects.

Every page is an opportunity to explore your mediums, from painting meditative, abstract textures to using found objects like flowers in your drawings. Here are some tips to make your mixed media art journal easier to manage.

Looking for a killer gift for a beloved kid in your life? You can create a customized mixed media story for them, complete with mementos from your time together incorporated.

Pop-up cards make a wonderful impression, and there are a variety of styles to be explored. Here is an example of a polaroid pop-up card that makes use of a piece of memorabilia. You can blend painting, printmaking, or photography for a refined artisanal look. There are also more complex styles that use many cuts to create a sculpture. Different executions of the mixed media pop-up card varieties. can be explored.

You can turn an ordinary cap, sweaters, shorts and shoes into something special through embroidery, tie-dye or stenciling a design on it. You can paint it, or layer it with your own unique combination of patches, or specialty buttons. Go to your local thrift store for some unique finds. You can mix and match any fabric you want! You can turn pretty much anything in your wardrobe into a one-of-a-kind mixed media art piece.
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The Beginner's Guide to Making Mixed Media Art

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What is mixed media? This beginner's guide to mixed media explores techniques in combining painting, sculpture, photography, collage, and more.

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When Tatsuo Horiuchi retired, he decided to try his hand at art. But instead of spending money on paints and brushes, Horiuchi used what he already had pre-installed on his computer-Microsoft Excel. Now, the 77-year-old artist is creating remarkably intricate digital masterpieces of the Japanese landscape, all on the free graphing software.

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"Bumper tables" aim to keep diners safe.

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#ArtIsJustice: Carlton Turner on how art transforms culture

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Art and Social Justice | PBS LearningMedia

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Many artists create work that intersects with political activism and social justice causes. Throughout history, art has been used as an accessible tool for communication, raising awareness about social issues and affecting positive change.

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Tomaso Clavarino wasn't always a photographer. He started out as a writer, but around seven years ago he gradually put down the pen and turned toward the camera. He had been interested in photography from a young age. His father, an architect and accomplished photographer himself, taught Clavarino almost everything he knows about photography.

So, after getting an MA in contemporary history and then working for several years as a freelance journalist, the foundation for switching to photography had already been laid. For Clavarino, photography "gives me the chance to investigate our society with freedom and imagination, feeds my curiosity and makes it possible to develop wider narratives with the obligation to deal somehow with reality."

Since switching over to photography, Clavarino has dedicated himself to working mostly on social and humanitarian issues. As it has for a lot of freelance photographers, the global spread of covid-19 has severely hampered the kind of work that Clavarino can do. But, for some, like Clavarino, it has also provided an opportunity to grow.

Clavarino told In Sight that while he's not used to photographing his own life, being quarantined has made him rethink that, helping him push his creative limits. He says, speaking in English, that this time has given him "the chance to deal with my comfort zone and to try to develop another kind of visual narrative, more intimate and personal. I wanted to deal with my roots in such a crazy period we are living, to deal with my past and to do so in a place that seems a sort of quiet haven suspended in time and space but pervaded of the tension of these times." For Clavarino, this has manifested itself in an extremely personal and introspective project he has come to call his "Quarantine Ballad."

Here is Clavarino's description of the project:

"In life sometimes events follow one another without giving you a chance to breathe. The news of my partner's pregnancy; a mourning that has deeply affected us; the inability to receive a hug from friends and relatives; Italy, and the whole world, paralyzed by a pandemic. So came the need to breathe, to return to the place where I grew up, which has always represented a safe haven, a happy island, immersed in an unreal tranquility, just a few kilometers away from the areas most affected by the epidemic.

"Cocconato d'Asti, in the hills of Lower Monferrato, Piedmont. Set in the second region in Italy for number of deaths for covid-19, a few kilometers from some of the most affected areas of northern Italy, here everything seems immersed in a surreal calm.

"And it is in this reality, as if suspended in time and space, that 'Quarantine Ballad' was born, a sort of rural ballad, a personal narration of these weeks, which talks about me, my roots, those around me but above all of the tension that pervades our lives in this period, and of this historical moment that will represent a clear break in our society and in our way of life."

"The world is still dealing with the rough realities the covid-19 pandemic has unleashed on us. As of this writing, there have been over three million confirmed cases and more than two hundred thousand deaths. There is still no vaccine or effective treatment for the virus and our lives, for the foreseeable future, have been turned upside down. As Clavarino's ballad shows us, it is as good a time as ever to reflect - on who we are and what our place in the world is and also who we want to be in the coming years as life will most likely look much different than it once did."

In Sight is The Washington Post's photography blog for visual narrative. This platform showcases compelling and diverse imagery from staff members and freelance photographers, news agencies and archives. If you are interested in submitting a story to In Sight, please complete this form.

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Environmental artists have been praised not only for great works they create, but also for raising awareness about environmental problems our planet faces... Environmental art is a very broad term, and it includes a number of different practices and movements. , Earth art, Sustainable art, Conceptual Art - these are only a few movements that can be described as environmental art as well. That is why environmental artists are using a wide range of media, techniques and styles. Even Claude Monet is often described as an environmentalist for his famous paintings where the creators explored humans' relation to nature ( London Series paintings, for example).

As a movement, environmental art emerged in the 1960s when famous individuals such as Nils Udo, Jean-Max Albert and Piotr Kowalski paved the way for this form of art expression. They have been continuously creating environment-related work since then thus spreading the ideas of environmental art. Speaking about them, it's important to make a distinction between those who are not focused so much on environmental issues and those who are part of this movement particularly aiming to explore relations between nature and the human world, aiming to raise awareness toward ecological problems. Some famous land creatives, such as and Robert Smithson (who made the famous Spiral Jetty) were criticized for permanent ecological damage some of their pieces had caused. However, working within the field of arts, many of them have spent a lot of time exploring the relationship between mankind's world and the natural environment.

How Environmental Art Can Change the World?

In general, there is no strict definition of environmental art. However, many environmental artists help us to understand nature; environmental art is concerned with environmental forces and materials; it re-envisions humans' relations with nature and remediates damaged environments. In addition, one of the main characteristics of environmental art is that is usually created for one particular place, cannot be moved, and obviously cannot be exhibited in museums or galleries. But, there are exceptions, as environmental artists use a wide range of different techniques in order to elevate environment art to new grounds.

Editors' Tip: Land and Environmental Art

The book Land and Environmental Art is edited by Jeffrey Kastner. The author describes the whole history of this movement, starting with the traditional landscape genre that was radically transformed in the 1960s. The author describes the art of Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson. This book fully documents the 1960s Land Art movement and surveys examples of Environmental Art to the present day. Brian Wallis (the contributor) discusses the key names, pieces and issues that define Land Art historically, as well as its later ramifications. Earthworks, environments, performances and actions by names ranging from Ana Mendieta in the 1970s and 80s to Peter Fend in the 1990s are illustrated with great photographs, sketches and project notes.

Scroll Down and See Some of the Most Notable Environmental Artists of Our Time!

Robert Morris - One of the Pioneers of Land Art

Apart from being one of the most important theoreticians of Minimalism, Robert Morris is also known as one of the most important environmental artists. He is better known as a conceptualist, sculptor, but many of his land and environmental art projects concern environmental issues. For example, during the 1970s, Morris began creating figurative art, much of it dealing with the fear of a nuclear war. One of his most notable land art pieces is The Observatory, located in Flevoland, in the Netherlands. This environment art piece is known for its references to Stonehenge in England.
Featured Images: Robert Morris - Observatorium
Chris Jordan - Exposing Consumeristic Culture

Chris Jordan is a Seattle-based artist who used to be a lawyer. This environmental artist became recognized for his photographs depicting garbage and other "products" of consumerist culture. His pieces can be quite shocking. He combines photography with technology and digital tools creating artworks that Jordan himself describes as "slow-motion apocalypse". Jordan's art reminds us how easily we destroy our environment and our planet.
Featured Images: Chris Jordan - Albatross chick on Midway Island, detail (courtesy of inland360.com); Chris Jordan
Agnes Denes - The Grandmother of Environmental Art Movement

Agnes Denes is a Hungarian-born conceptual artist living and working in New York City. Often called "the grandmother" of the early environmental art movements, Denes is interested in humans' perception of natural cycles and stewardship. Without any doubt, her most famous environmental art project is Wheatfield, a Confrontation from 1982. Denes spent six months creating it, which included planting a field of golden wheat on two acres of a rubble-strewn landfill near Wall Street in Manhattan.
Featured Images: Agnes Denes - Wheatfield, a Confrontation (courtesy of observer.com); Agnes Denes (courtesy of nytimes)
Edith Meusnier - Mixing Textile and Environment

Edith Meusnier is a French and environmental artist. Through her art, Meusnier examines the notions of sustainability and vulnerability. Her textile installations are placed outdoors, in places such as castles' parks, the cloisters of monasteries, parks in front of museums. She starts every new project by choosing specific location, since different settings defines her installations. Her pieces are highly colored, often joyful, however questioning important themes, such as public space and art, sustainability and other environment-related issues.
Featured Image: Edith Meusnier - Artwork
Nils-Udo - One of the Main Figures of Environmental Art Movement

Nils-Udo is one of the main figures of the environmental art movements. He has been creating this form of art for decades now and he is known for creating "utopias" in nature, trying to prove that they can be real. As the artist explains: Even if I work parallel to nature and only intervene with the greatest possible care, a basic internal contradiction remains. It is a contradiction that underlies all of my work, which itself can't escape the inherent fatality of our existence. It harms what it touches: the virginity of nature...To realize what is possible and latent in Nature, to literally realize what has never existed, utopia becomes reality. A second life suffices. The event has taken place. I have only animated it and made it visible.
Featured Images: Nils-Udo in 2011; Nils-Udo - Artwork detail (courtesy of nsconover.com)
Andy Goldsworthy - Artist and Environmentalist

British-born artist Andy Goldsworthy is another famous environmental artist who creates site-specific installations using materials such as mud, twigs, snow, colorful flowers. Goldsworthy is also an environmentalist. His works can be found in urban areas and in natural setting. This is how Goldsworthy characterizes his art: Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
Featured Images: Andy Goldsworthy (courtesy of sailingdog.org); Andy Goldsworthy - Artwork (courtesy of therongolianstar.com)
Red Earth Environmental Art Group

creates site-specific work interacting with the landscape: performances, installations and participatory events. Led by artists and co-directors Caitlin Easterby and Simon Pascoe, the group has produced works in Europe, Java, Japan and Mongolia. What is particularly interesting about the art of this group is their collective and participatory approach towards art creation. They collaborate and work not only with other arts creatives, but with geologists, activists, archaeologists, and so on.
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app Short for application, or a computer program designed for a specific task.

Arctic A region that falls within the Arctic Circle. The edge of that circle is defined as the northernmost point at which the sun is visible on the northern winter solstice and the southernmost point at which the midnight sun can be seen on the northern summer solstice. The high Arctic is that most northerly third of this region. It's a region dominated by snow cover much of the year.

calving (in Earth sciences) The natural splitting off of some part of the leading edge of a glacier or ice sheet. This is a source of the icebergs seen floating in polar waters.

carbon The chemical element having the atomic number 6. It is the physical basis of all life on Earth. Carbon exists freely as graphite and diamond. It is an important part of coal, limestone and petroleum, and is capable of self-bonding, chemically, to form an enormous number of chemically, biologically and commercially important molecules.

carbon dioxide (or CO ₂) A colorless, odorless gas produced by all animals when the oxygen they inhale reacts with the carbon-rich foods that they've eaten. Carbon dioxide also is released when organic matter burns (including fossil fuels like oil or gas). Carbon dioxide acts as a greenhouse gas, trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere. Plants convert carbon dioxide into oxygen during photosynthesis, the process they use to make their own food.

climate The weather conditions that typically exist in one area, in general, or over a long period.

climate change Long-term, significant change in the climate of Earth. It can happen naturally or in response to human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests.

colleague Someone who works with another; a co-worker or team member.

data Facts and/or statistics collected together for analysis but not necessarily organized in a way that gives them meaning. For digital information (the type stored by computers), those data typically are numbers stored in a binary code, portrayed as strings of zeros and ones.

elevation The height or altitude at which something exists.

environment The sum of all of the things that exist around some organism or the process and the condition those things create. Environment may refer to the weather and ecosystem in which some animal lives, or, perhaps, the temperature and humidity (or even the placement of things in the vicinity of an item of interest).

glacier A slow-moving river of ice hundreds or thousands of meters deep. Glaciers are found in mountain valleys and also form parts of ice sheets.

graduate school A university program that offers advanced degrees, such as a Master's or PhD degree. It's called graduate school because it is started only after someone has already graduated from college (usually with a four-year degree).

ice sheet A broad blanket of ice, often kilometers deep. Ice sheets currently cover most of Antarctica. An ice sheet also blankets most of Greenland. During the last glaciation, ice sheets also covered much of North America and Europe.

information (as opposed to data) Facts provided or trends learned about something or someone, often as a result of studying data.

meteorologist Someone who studies weather and climate events.

permafrost Soil that remains frozen for at least two consecutive years. Such conditions typically occur in polar climates, where average annual temperatures remain close to or below freezing.

sea level The overall level of the ocean over the entire globe when all tides and other short-term changes are averaged out.

unique Something that is unlike anything else; the only one of its kind.

urban Of or related to cities, especially densely populated ones or regions where lots of traffic and industrial activity occurs. The development or buildup of urban areas is a phenomenon known as urbanization.

weather Conditions in the atmosphere at a localized place and a particular time. It is usually described in terms of particular features, such as air pressure, humidity, moisture, any precipitation (rain, snow or ice), temperature and wind speed. Weather constitutes the actual conditions that occur at any time and place. It's different from climate, which is a description of the conditions that tend to occur in some general region during a particular month or season.

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Using art to show the threat of climate change

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Climate change can sometimes seem like a huge pile of hard-to-grasp numbers and graphs. These artists are finding new ways to help people understand big changes.

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New England artist uses "historic" markers of natural events to spark climate awareness.

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It's an image of a nurse with her hands pressed together in prayer. In bold letters below her hands, it says "bless the healers."

The illustration, designed by the artist Marvin Madariaga, has been shared across social media. Some people have posted it in the window of their home. And it's been projected on the side of a building in the heart of New York City.

In health crises, people have long turned to the arts to inform and inspire. During the 1980s AIDS epidemic, the words "silence = death" were printed on posters, pins and patches. And during the 2014 Ebola crisis, murals with the slogan "Ebola is real" were painted across West Africa.

The coronavirus pandemic is no different. Two organizations, the United Nations and Amplifier, an arts group, launched independent campaigns in March inviting artists to submit artwork around the coronavirus. Tens of thousands of submissions later, the groups are now showcasing a selection of these works to the public.

Madariaga's artwork was submitted to Amplifier, which coordinated some of the iconic poster designs around the Women's March on Washington in 2016.

"In times of uncertainty, art is more than beauty or decoration - it's a tool. Art can heal, art can save lives, art can bring us together - even when we're apart," says Aaron Huey, founder of Amplifier. "It can be a compass to guide us through the storm."

In March, the U.N. put out an open brief, or request, calling on artists to produce "concise and impactful visuals to help share life-saving information on COVID-19."

"The idea was really to try and lean into the creative community, to try and help identify, interpret, and amplify the messages that were keeping people safe," says Dawda Jobarteh of the U.N., who helped organize the campaign.

Since then, it has received nearly 17,000 designs from artists in 143 countries, ranging from photography to animation, graphic design to hand-drawn posters.

Some submissions focus on unity. In one, Mexican artist Lisa Saldivar depicts the facade of an apartment building, as a crowd of people converse. Bubble letters frame the piece: "kindness not cancelled."

Other submissions, like one from Russian artist Irina Chaitsyna, emphasize important health messages. Her illustration shows people engaged in activities like exercising and painting spelling out the words "stay home" with their bodies.

After the call for submissions ended on April 14, the U.N. evaluated the designs to ensure that they were promoting accurate health messaging according to the World Health Organization's safety guidelines. On April 30, it made the vetted images available in an online portal - and are now encouraging people to view the images, download and share. There is no cash prize, but the U.N. will feature some of the artwork on their social media channels.

Amplifier's campaign had a slightly different brief. On May 8 it ended a campaign calling on artists to create visuals that promote mental health and well-being amid the pandemic. It also called for artwork that envisions life after lockdown.

Since then, it has received over 10,500 submissions - with 100 entrants selected for a $1,000 individual cash prize. Like the U.N., selected images are also available on Amplifier's website for people to download for free and share.

Amplifier is taking things a step further by turning some of the submissions into a series of public art installations in cities around the world, in partnership with the arts group The Illuminator. In addition to being projected onto a building in New York City, Madariaga's nurse poster also wallpapers a building on Oxford Street in London.

Passersby are snapping photos of the installations and posting it to social media. "This is so dope," writes Instagram user @where_bry_at, of a projection depicting a black female health worker in a mask. "I love the message, the representation and the encouragement."

Praising the efforts, Glen Nowak, director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication and a professor of advertising at the University of Georgia, says public art campaigns like these can help drive home important messages around a health crisis. He cites the AIDS Memorial Quilt as an example. First created in 1987, the quilt is a vast patchwork of more than 50,000 panels commemorating the lives of the epidemic's victims - while helping the public comprehend the reality of the crisis.

Unlike other kinds of messaging, art is colorful, engaging and provocative, says Nowak. And for that reason, it "can grab people's attention" in a special way.

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It's an image of a nurse with her hands pressed together in prayer. In bold letters below her hands, it says "bless the healers." The illustration, designed by the artist Marvin Madariaga, has been shared across social media. Some people have posted it in the window of their home.

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Because of the novel coronavirus, many schools around the world had to shut down earlier this year. Some schools have reopened, but there are new procedures to follow.

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