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VOLUME 3
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 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
04 About the Project 06 Draw a comic character/ strip 18 Draw a noise
28 Use different shapes to create a work 44 Draw a picture using only dots 60 Draw something with only 10 lines
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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March 28, 2020 “Were Fine” by Las Vegas artist Sean Slattery (@seanslatteryart).
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by Susan Moraleda @gilbertartgalaxy and Susan Moraleda @gemma_rose_flows
“Comicbook Character� by Homero Hidalgo @homero_alejandro_
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“Kid problems with lil Darby and kid Vicious” by Dan Hernandez @xdan45x
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by Beverly Neas @vegasmammy
“Caught in a Web Called Coronavirus� by Beverly Neas @vegasmammy
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by Alisha Kerlin and Faye Kerlin Stoelting @alishakerlin
by Martin Hackett @thereverendeliipsisbang
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by Heidi Rider @reidihider
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by Zoe Bray @zoe.bray.75
“A comic strip based on real life with @dwaynethekitty and the virus as a person.� by BE Gutierrez @begutierrezart
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by Katherine Gayle @flying_so_high
by Christel Polkowski @sightbeyondsight
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by Marianne Campbell @froggydoesart
“Draw a Superhero� by Lance L. Smith @lancesmithart
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by Diane Bush @dianebush6970
by Keely Arellano @ayye.keely
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by Shaun Weston @shaunwestonart
by Eva J. Scoville @ejscoville
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March 29, 2020 Las Vegas artist Karin Q. Miller (@karinqmiller). “It’s the noise my oil diffuser makes. Smooth, sometimes sputtery but very soothing.”
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by Susan Moraleda @gilbertartgalaxy
by A.C. @1000bad_drawings
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“My room My life” by Daniel Magaña @danny.arch
“Three minutes of crows cawing in the backyard“ by Marianne Campbell @froggydoesart
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“Bikini Kill on vinyl” by Shahab Zargari @shahabzargari
by Daniel Magaña @danny.arch
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by Eva J. Scoville @ejscoville
“Can you hear it?” by Dan Hernandez @xdan45x
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by Homero Hidalgo @homero_alejandro_
by Keely Arellano @ayye.keely
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by Joshua Kingston @mascotdevelopment
by Nancy Good @nancygood_art
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“Sounds of Nature” by Beverly Neas @vegasmammy
by Christel Polkowski @sightbeyondsight
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“Echo� by Shannon DeAngelis @shannon.deangelis
by Shaun Weston @shaunwestonart
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March 30, 2020 New York-based artist Rodney L. White (@rw12723). A series of untitled studies for a group of large paintings he’s working on.
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by Shaun Weston @shaunwestonart
by Kim Garland @kimberlina_garfunk
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by Alisha Kerlin @alishakerlin
by Joshua Kingston @mascotdevelopment
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by Chris Mempin @mempinman
by Beverly Neas @vegasmammy
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by A.C. @1000bad_drawings
by Marianne Campbell @froggydoesart
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by Oksana Marafioti @oksanamarafioti
by Bindia Hallauer @artbybindia
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by Daniel MagaĂąa @danny.arch
by Glenn Nowak @gnpn
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by Homero Hidalgo @homero_alejandro_
by Eva J. Scoville @ejscoville
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by Karla @_KAAARLA_
by Ivan Gonzalez @_ivann_gv
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by Christel Polkowski @sightbeyondsight
by Linda Kerlin @lindakerlinart
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“Collage by Lucy” (Age almost two) by Lucy and Marianne Campbell @froggydoesart
by Iandry Randriamandroso @iandryrex
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“Bottle cap rooster� by Vanessa Valdivia @ninivaldivia
by Kim Miller @soberinvegas
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by Trevor Ganske @trevorganske
by Dan Hernandez @xdan45x
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March 31, 2020 “Garden of Forking Paths” by Eri King (@eriking). “I find this process meditative and hope that others will find solace in this drawing process as I do. Especially under these unprecedented circumstances, these are great prompts to get the creative juices flowing!”
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“Garden of Forking Paths” (detail)
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by Cat Peg @catpluspeg
by Gloria Quimby
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by Gloria Quimby
by Gloria Quimby
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by Gloria Quimby
by Gloria Quimby
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by Kate Maggart @ktmag.art
by Shaun Weston @shaunwestonart
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by Christel Polkowski @sightbeyondsight
by Katie (age 6) and Annie Savage @whymomsavage
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by Linda Kerlin @lindakerlinart
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by Susan Moraleda @gilbertartgalaxy
by Eva J. Scoville @ejscoville
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by Mรกs Vegas @masvegasclothing
by Marianne Campbell @froggydoesart
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by Joshua Kingston @mascotdevelopment
by @theresheisart
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“Dots Facade: Twinkle!” by Daniel Magaña @danny.arch
by @lameleigha
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by Dan Hernandez @xdan45x
by Karla @_kaaarla_
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“Beware of Thorns” by Beverly Neas @vegasmammy
by Allen Linnabary @blizzard517
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by Homero Hidalgo @homero_alejandro_
by Keely Arellano @ayye.keely
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“when lines disappear” by Las Vegas artist Chad Scott (@chadleonscott). Drawing-Object (ballpoint and paper). 24 x 18 inches. “Due to repetitious marking, the drawing-objects have two sides suggesting causality. Yet, as a consequence of this process, ink bleeds through the paper overtime. This serves as a metaphor relating to effects of time on what we think or believe we know.”
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“when lines disappear� (detail)
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“when lines disappear” (back)
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“Annie Going Nuts” by Annie Savage @whymomsavage
by Kim Garland and Fizzy @kimberlina_garfunk
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by Eva J. Scoville @ejscoville
“Fireworks” by Katie (Age 6) and Annie Savage @whymomsavage
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by Marianne Campbell @froggydoesart
by Karin Q. Miller @karinqmiller
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by Sue Bunyan @sbunyan
by Joshua Kingston @mascotdevelopment
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by Shannon DeAngelis @shannon.deangelis
by Beverly Neas @vegasmammy
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by Kim Miller @soberinvegas
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by Elisa Lendvay @elisalendvay
by Elisa Lendvay @elisalendvay
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by Elisa Lendvay @elisalendvay
by Elisa Lendvay @elisalendvay
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by Elisa Lendvay @elisalendvay
by Elisa Lendvay @elisalendvay
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by Elisa Lendvay @elisalendvay
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by Daniel MagaĂąa @danny.arch
by Christel Polkowski @sightbeyondsight
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by Keely Arellano @ayye.keely
by Shaun Weston @shaunwestonart
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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. 76
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Alisha Kerlin Paige Bockman DK Sole LeiAnn Huddleston Chloe Bernardo Emmanuel Munoz Dan Hernandez Designed by
Chloe Bernardo