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VOLUME 2
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada March 18, 2020–April 30, 2020
A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away Volume 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
04 About the Project 06 Draw something using a continuous line 20 Make a collage
44 Draw your favorite song 58 Draw a virus as if it were a person 68 Draw your daily commute before you were quarantined
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily drawing prompt on Instagram. Anyone who wanted could respond to the prompt by posting a drawing and tagging us. Then we would add their drawing to our story feed and our highlights, so there would be a growing record of everything we’d received. At the end of the project we would turn the submissions into a catalog. Drawing a Day is not only something that gives people a connection to the arts community during the shutdown, it’s also going to become a historical archive. It took us less than twenty-four hours to come up with our list of prompts. By the next day our graphic designer Chloe Bernardo had created our title image and we were able to begin. Every day since then we’ve posted one of her prompt illustrations followed by a response from an artist. That’s our first picture of the
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day. After that we wait to see what else people send us. Anyone with access to Instagram can participate. We don’t judge the drawings. We hope that the regularity of our prompts creates a sense of grounding in the middle of the very tense and mysterious situation that we’re in. Ideally, we hope our prompts help people touch on some of the complicated feelings they’re having right now. We also appreciate it when we can see people are enjoying themselves. We notice when the same people send us pictures every day, and even though we don’t know most of them personally it’s nice to be able to follow their careers, as Pandemic Drawing artists, with the same kind of attention we would use if we were following the career of any of the artists we work with at the museum. Some of those exhibition artists have submitted drawings too. Sue Havens, for example, an artist who’s going to be creating new work for a show in our Workshop gallery in the future, sent us two drawings for the self-portrait prompt. We’ve had people tell us that the project is therapeutic, it’s comforting, it creates a kind of normalcy. And those are the kinds of reactions we were hoping for.
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DRAW SOMETHING USING A CONTINUOUS LINE
March 23, 2020 Wendy Kveck (@wendykveck). Love’s Baby Soft, 2014. Oil, paint pen on canvas. Photo of the drawing by Checko Salgado.
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by Shaun Weston @shaunwestonart
“Cat Poses” by Coni Dialo @artbyconi
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by Alyse Rosner @alyserosner
by Heather LangCassera @heather_lang_
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“One Continuous Line” by BE Gutierrez @begutierrezart
by Daniel Magaña @danny.arch
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by Kim Garland @kimberlina_garfunk
“continuous line” by Paige Bockman @pgbockman
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by Mrs. Gonzalez @cre8teeveryday
by Melinda Stender @melindastender
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“One Line Drawing” by Ivan Gonzalez @_ivann_gv
“Self Portrait” by Ashley Zabarte @linenandlacestyle
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“Maby IDK” by Karla @_kaaarla_
by Cindi Moon Reed @cmoonreed
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by Eva J. Scoville @ejscoville
by Marianne Campbell @froggydoesart
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by Diane Bush @dianebush6970
by Keely Arellano @ayye.keely
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“Untitled� by Shahab Zargari @shahabzargari
by Rachel Dittrich @rachel_dittrich
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by Faye (Age 4) and Alisha Kerlin @alishakerlin
by Penelope @peny.art_
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by Christel Polkowski @sightbeyondsight
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March 24, 2020 JK Russ (@jorussphoto). Snake Woman with Turret, 2019. Collage, 6” x 8”.
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“Fountain,” 2012 by Stephanie Sumler @samanthastephaniepaper
Mixed media
“Gli Anni Folli (The Crazy Years)” by Melisa Christ @m_christ33
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“My room My life” by Daniel Magaña @danny.arch
by Dan Hernadez @xdan45x
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“Flower Power” by Chloe Bernardo @cbernardo_design
by Ivan Gonzalez @_ivann_gv
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“Exterior Found Object Collage” by Paige Bockman @pgbockman
“Interior Found Object Collage” by Paige Bockman @pgbockman
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by Karla @_kaaarla_
by Angie @angie.s_art
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by @artpractice2019
by Susan Moraleda @gilbertartgalaxy
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by Jeani Elbaum @jelbaum
by Lilia Todd @liliatoddart
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by Christel Polkowski @mrs.polkowski
by Shaun Weston @shaunwestonart
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by Christel Polkowski @sightbeyondsight
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by Beth Newitt and Maeve Newitt @thehungrywife
by Homero Hidalgo @homero_alejandro_
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by Homero Hidalgo @homero_alejandro_
by Homero Hidalgo @homero_alejandro_
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by Erica Martinez @lady_dydrm
by Ashley Zabarte @linenandlacestyle
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by Beverly Neas @vegasmammy
by Beverly Neas @vegasmammy
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by Coni Dialo @artbyconi
by Jennifer Battisti @jennbatt3
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by Keely Arellano @ayye.keely
by Kim Miller @soberinvegas
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“Ice Warming” (2019) by JK Russ @jorussphoto Mixed media
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by Erin Stellmon @erinstellmon
“An installation at DiRosa Contemporary Art Museum, Napa� posted by Diane Bush @dianebush6970
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“Fragmented Beauty” by Penelope @peny.art_
“Shall we shake on it? Uh, no thanks” by Shahab Zargari @shahabzargari
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by Eva J. Scoville @ejscoville
by @gmc5404
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by @lavendertypewriter
by Nancy Good @nancygood_art
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by Linda Kerlin @lindakerlinart
by Evan Dent @uncle_fart
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by Heidi Rider @reidihider
by @theylive702
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DRAW YOUR FAVORITE SONG
March 25, 2020 Art Fuentes (@arf_the_artiste) Song: Robot Wife (parody of “Party Doll” by Buddy Knox). Our friend Shahab Zargari, the founder of Geykido Comet Records, sent us an illustration by Art Fuentes for a song called Robot Wife, a parody of Buddy Knox’s 1957 hit Party Doll. “Party Doll is a creepy old 50s song about a guy trying to flirt with a girl,” he explains. “Whereas Robot Wife is a song about a man of the future who is madly in love with his
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soon-to-be robotic wife. The parody was produced as a world-building marketing tool to promote the post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel Prison Break 2438. The song came out on a free-to-download ep, which also included a parody of “Peggy Sue” by Buddy Holly entitled “Tiger’s Paw.” Tiger’s Paw is the name of the revolutionary civil rights activist group mentioned in the novel, a story which takes place in the year of 2438 AD.
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“Black” by Chris Mempin @mempinman Acrylic on canvas
“Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire” by Beverly Neas @vegasmammy
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by Coni Dialo @artbyconi
“Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” by Stephanie Sumler @samanthastephaniepaper
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“Peel Slowly and See (All Tomorrow’s Parties)” Inspired by the Velvet Underground by Chad Scott @chadleonscott 48
by Elsa Cantu
“My Three Little Birds (Bob Marley)” by Susan Moraleda @gilbertartgalaxy
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by Jess Vanessa @jessvanessa
“Strawberry Fields Forever� by Chloe Bernardo @cbernardo_design
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by Mikayla Smith @mickkayyyyy
“Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) by Sylvester” by Marianne Campbell @froggydoesart
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“Perfect Now by Louis Tomlinso” by Keely Arellano @ayye.keely
“Here comes the sun” by Rachel Dittrich @rachel_dittrich
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by Iandry Randriamandroso @iandryrex
“It’s Not Save to Swim Today by Veil of Maya” by Shannon DeAngelis @shannon.deangelis
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by Rebecca Reyes @rebeccart.reyes
“Monkey Business, by the Pet Shop Boys” by Shaun Weston @shaunwestonart
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“Sultans of Swing” by Eva J. Scoville @ejscoville
“The Goldberg Variation of Bach” by Glenn Nowak @gnpn
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“Island in the Sun by Weezer� by Angie @angie.s_art
by Kim Miller @soberinvegas
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“The Smiths” by Dan Hernandez @xdan45x
by Christel Polkowski @sightbeyondsight
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DRAW DRAW A A VIRUS VIRUS AS AS IF IF IT IT WERE WERE PERSO A A PERSON PERSON N
March 26, 2020 Brent Holmes (@bread_n_circuses). For the prompt “Draw a Virus as if it were a Person.”
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“Pandemic Man” by Nancy Good @nancygood_art
“Covid Nineteen” by Eva J. Scoville @ejscoville
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“Thinker in a Rose Garden with cheeto” by Eri King @eriking Acrylic, pastel and ink on paper ‘Drew this days after Trump was elected and I was still in a cheeto phase. Sentiments remain.’
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by @unlvwritingcenter
by Christel Polkowski @sightbeyondsight
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by Coni Dialo @artbyconi
by Susan Moraleda @gilbertartgalaxy
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by Shaun Weston @shaunwestonart
by Dan Hernandez @xdan45x
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by Keely Arellano @ayye.keely
by Marianne Campbell @froggydoesart
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“Coming to Dinner” by John Stoelting Orange, spaghetti, cloves.
by Faye Kerlin Stoelting (Age 4)
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by BetĂźl Peker @betulpekerp (Turkey)
by Fawn Douglas @nuwuart
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DRAW DRAW YOUR DRAW YOUR YOUR DAILY DAILY COMMUTE DAILY COMMUTE COMMUTE TO TO WORK BEFORE TO WORK WORK BEFORE BEFORE YOU YOU WERE YOU WERE WERE QUARANTINED QUARANTINED QUARANTINED
March 27, 2020 By Washington, D.C.-based artist Kate Parnell behind the Garfield-filled universe of @garfieldfrommemory. Why Garfield? “Partly because Garfield is so recognizable but seems to be almost infinitely mutable,” says Parnell. “I really do think of this as a long-term conceptual project as much as anything else.”
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by Beverly Neas @vegasmammy
by Dan Hernandez @xdan45x
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by Keely Arellano @ayye.keely
by Shahab Zargari @shahabzargari
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“My drive up the 15 to work” by Susan Moraleda @gilbertartgalaxy
by Christel Polkowski @sightbeyondsight
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“Kinda miss taking the Cat (citizen area transit) bus� by Ainsley @whasg000dy
by Jennifer Battisti @jennbatt3
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“The Bus” by Daniel Magaña @danny.arch
by Cat Peg @catpluspeg
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by Shaun Weston @shaunwestonart
“Commute to work/school� by Ivan Gonzalez @_ivann_gv
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THANK YOU This is the first time we’ve organized a communal social media project of this scale and we couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks to our colleagues, particularly the Barrick’s graphic designer, Chloe Bernardo, who created title illustrations for every single one of the forty-four prompts. Thanks also to our Instagram team: LeiAnn Huddleston, Alisha Kerlin, Emmanuel Muñoz, and D.K. Sole. Thanks to Paige Bockman and Dan Hernandez, who provided behindthe-scenes support. Thank you to the artists who allowed us to feature their art with each of our prompt posts. In some cases you created entirely new works for us to share and we’re grateful. Last, but the opposite of least, the most important thanks go to the contributors, everyone on Instagram who drew and collaged and filmed and painted and photographed it all and tagged us (or emailed it to us) so we could share it with the world. You are the best. 78
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Alisha Kerlin Paige Bockman DK Sole LeiAnn Huddleston Chloe Bernardo Emmanuel Munoz Dan Hernandez Designed by
Chloe Bernardo