Michigan State University CTC-19 Exhibitions
Coming FALL 2024 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI : Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 exhibits at SCENE Metrospace and the LookOut Gallery...
The presentation will be a intersectional and inclusive show creative outputs inspired by our individual and colllective pandemic journeys.
Dr. Natalie Philips and Dr. Julian Chambliss lead the travelling exhibitions and digital archive teams.
Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 is a humanities research based collaborative exploration of creativity, often as a means of coping, during COVID-19. The intersectional, inclusive, and accessible goals in collecting and sharing these works highlighted art as a tool for combating inequity and injustice.
The CTC-19 project included physical exhibits as well as a digital archival collection of the works submitted by contributors from all over the globe. The project endeavored to reach those disproportionately impacted by the pandemic whenever possible. COVID-19 continues to reveal profound structural disadvantages and inequities, causing minority communities to be disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
Partners presented curated shows in Buffalo, NY, where BIPOC/API and LGBTQIA+ identities were shared and explored; St. Louis, MO where the focus was first responders and medical humanties; and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO where neurodivergence was presented in contrast to service. The final exibitions will take place in East Lansing, MI, fall 2024 with an aim to represent diverse acts of creativity, With our exhibitions, we aimed to set a new standard for accessible experiences in museums, universities, and online by including everything from braille, audio descriptions, and tactile art to respite spaces for grieving and times for adjusted sensory environments.
Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and Injustice (CTC-19) is a project documenting everyday creative outputs used to cope with the pandemic. Crowdsourcing examples of creativity during COVID-19, our public humanities collaboration focused on highlighting art as a tool for combating inequity and injustice.
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Exhibitions in Buffalo, NY, Colorado Springs, and St. Louis took place in the fall of 2023. Access and accessibility lie at the heart of these exhibitions and CTC-19 project as a whole. We believe accessibility can be a creative process not just a product created to reach standards outlined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Our exhibitions work to set a new standard for accessible experiences in museums, universities, and online by including everything from braille, audio descriptions, and tactile art to respite spaces for grieving and times for adjusted sensory environments.
Teams at Washington University in St. Louis, University of Buffalo in New York, and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs worked to create subgenred exhibitions based on the CTC-19 collection. Although all CTC-19 exhibitions are curated from the CTC-19 collection, WashU focused on the medical humanities. Buffalo focused on the intersections of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC/API identities, and the Air Force honed in on neurodivergence.