In the Time of COVID-19 | 2020-2021 Invitational Series of Multimedia Art

With support from Stable Ground Boston

This virtual exhibition series of multimedia art, initiated in Fall 2020, is co-curated by artists Hakim Raquib and Walter Crump, who will also be presenting their own bodies of work.

New featured artist exhibitions will rotate on our virtual platform every six to eight weeks, while preceding exhibitions will remain online for our audience. The entire series will run through Summer 2021.

The virtual exhibition series features artists whose work contemplates the social and/or personal consequences of a pandemic, whether the pathogen be of physical (the COVID-19 virus), or of social (for example, police brutality among people of color) origin.

Hakim Raquib, "I Can't Breathe," 2020

Exhibitions in this Series

Walter Crump, "Promenade, Istanbul," Archival inkjet print, 2021 — Walter Crump
<strong>Witnessing Protests, Imagining The Pandemic & Some Poems</strong>
May 1-June 15, 2021

In this image, you see a close up of a masked superhero El hombre nopal, Cactus man. A speech bubble comes out of his mouth saying, “Our existence is our resistance,” echoing the chanting of thousands of undocumented DACA students whose status is on limbo. This also speaks to the resistance of indigenous people in surviving genocides, cultural erasure, and oppression. Yet, we continue to sprout fruitful lives. — Salvadore Jiménez-Flores
<strong>Los Caminos de la Vida</strong>
February 19-March 2, 2021

Carlos Byron, "The Tourists, Chinatown Havana," photography, 20" x 13 1/4", Summer 2017 — Shutterbug - Draughtsman
<strong>Photography and Mixed-Media by Carlos Byron</strong>
January 7-February 18, 2021

Susan Thompson, "What My Grandmother Taught Me," Pieced quilt, 58” x 41”, 2000 — The Transcendance of the Ancestors
<strong>Fiber and Mixed-media art by Susan Thompson</strong>
October 7, 2020-January 6, 2021

Shea Justice, solo artist — America: Timelines and Traditions
<strong>Multi-media art by Shea Justice</strong>
September 8-October 6, 2020

Community organizer and violence interrupter Ameena Matthews comforts protestor Kirah Moe during a particularly emotional moment while protesting against police brutality in Chicago. Upwards of 500 hundred people marched throughout downtown Chicago on Tuesday, November 24 to protest the police killing of Laquan McDonald at the hands of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. McDonald was shot sixteen times and the video was withheld from public view until a judge ordred it released. McDonald was holding a small knife but was shot repeatedly in the dashcam video. The family was paid 5 million dollars in a settlement with the City of Chicago, but yesterday officer Van Dyke was also charged with murder after a whistleblower brought the video to the attention of a local journalist who then sued the city to have it released. The City of Chicago's Police Department has a long and difficult history associated with police brutality reaching back decades. — South Side
<strong>Photography by Jon Lowenstein</strong>
July 17-September 7, 2020

The Surge 2020
<strong>Photography by Hakim Raquib</strong>
June 10-July 16, 2020

"In the Time of COVID-19" has been made possible through our partnership with Stable Ground Boston, a project of NuLawLab at Northeastern University School of Law.

With support from Stable Ground Boston

Exhibitions in this Series

Walter Crump

Salvadore Jiménez-Flores

Shutterbug - Draughtsman

The Transcendance of the Ancestors

America: Timelines and Traditions

South Side

The Surge 2020