3/17/2023 0 Comments Bay city time capsule“A lot of immigrant communities, undocumented communities, don’t qualify for unemployment, for stimulus checks. “We’ve been the most affected community in San Francisco in terms of number of infections,” Jiménez told 48 Hills. Jiménez, a Tijuana-raised artist who served as photo editor of the Mission’s long-running bilingual newspaper El Tecolote for seven years (she continues to contribute to the publication), chose to focus her residency on how the pandemic was affecting the city’s Latino residents. To create the images that may frame future generations’ understanding of the health crisis, the artists don a blue vest that reads “CCC Artist in Residence” one day a week for 12 weeks, and get to work capturing different areas of the aid work.įor some, that’s meant leaving the Center itself. In fact, the repurposed Moscone South is only the nerve center of an operation that extends across the 7×7 miles of a city that needs to be filled with testing sites, community relief, and informational posters. “I’m still learning how to navigate that.” “Three floors of tons of people in huge rooms, coordinating and making things happen,” Jiménez tells 48 Hills about what she’s seen working in the CCC itself. But first, they need to figure out what, exactly, goes on at and around the Command Center. The artists’ final portfolios will become part of the city’s COVID community time capsule. “The way the City is working hand in hand with community leaders and nonprofit organizations to prevent and eradicate COVID-19 is a story that should be recorded,” says Shiffler. Renee Jones, and comic artists Bo Rittapa and Ajuan Mance. Produced by the San Francisco Arts Commission in partnership with the city library and the CCC, the initiative is overseen by SFAC galleries director Meg Shiffler, who has tapped the skills of four local BIPOC artists photographers Mabel Jiménez and S. In the thick of the current pandemic, artists have once again been employed to document a dark time San Francisco’s COVID-19 Command Center (located at Moscone Center South) recently announced its artist-in-residency program. Those creatives took home much-needed pay checks for both documenting the country’s cultural and economic upheaval first-hand-one thinks of the iconic Dust Bowl family shots by Dorothea Lange-and creating works that captured the nation’s zeitgeist, such as Aaron Douglas’ 1934 four-panel mural for the New York Public Library “ Aspects of Negro Life.” Roosevelt’s Great Depression-era New Deal, vast numbers of photographers and painters were employed via the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project effort. San Francisco’s COVID-19 Command Center artist-in-residency program is far from a historical outlier-hiring artists to document the country in its moments of crisis is a United States tradition.Īs part of President Franklin D.
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