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An acrylic painting of a pathway, with some areas shrouded in darkness and others illuminated in light. The pathway is surrounded by walls and is partially covered by a roof that resembles the wavy panels of a tin roof. The walls and floor are a light gray with faint blue and red undertones. The areas where the roof covers the path are reflected black onto the ground, and the areas where there is no roof show the lightness of the ground. As the path continues into the distance, it turns white with outside light.

The Path (Still)

Connie Manna

A drawing of a path that curves around a bend and has a flat structure like a partial roof overhead.

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An abstract acrylic painting on stretched canvas. The top of the painting has a marbled light blue and white background and the bottom half of the painting has light blue, light brown, and light green covering the background in different forms. Towards the middle of the painting are circular swirls of tan, light yellow, light brown, and vibrant blues and reds. These swirls and colors reach into parts of the background.

Objects of Silence

Barbara Krupp

Digital abstract painting of many curving dripping shapes in lighter blues and purples, red, burgundy, beiges, and pale olive colors.

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Six mugs arranged on a wooden surface. The mugs are all turned so the handles are facing the viewer. Each mug has a different painted or designed handle, such as two small holes or a handle with another wavy handle intertwined with it. The mugs are painted with different colorful lines, patterns, and organic shapes.

Cheerful Handles

Bettina Milliken

four beige handmade mugs with colorful ceramic swirls.

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An abstract linoleum print, proofed with black ink and carved to reveal details in white. In the center is a street, a child wearing a short dress and holding an umbrella walks down holding an open container, white dots pouring out of it. In the bottom portion is a truck labeled “patriots” in capital letters and people standing around. Next to it, a Black Lives Matter protest is beside COVID testing tents. In the top portion of the piece, hilled forms with broken eggs and eye symbols fill the space. A truck drives away from a hill of used gloves and COVID masks. Faintly above the scene are the words “Wash, rinse, repeat”.

Covid Chronicles 10

Ellen Shattuck Pierce

Black and white linocut of girl walking down the street.

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Photographs of the CTC-19 exhibit in St. Louis at Washington University.

St. Louis, MO CTC-19 Exhibit

Simona Sarfinovska

Exhibit installation representing how much scrabble people played during the Covid19 lockdown.

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A photograph of a child on a pile of colorful pillows, holding a book. The child has light skin and pale blonde hair pushed away from their face. They are holding a book under their chin titled “Owl Diaries”, with a drawing of a cartoon owl on the cover. Behind them is a green wall and brown dressers.

Reading with Zoom

Dotty Nielsen

A grade school aged girl hugging a book while smiling. She sits on a multicolored indoor play mat.

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An abstract acrylic painting on stretched canvas. The painting has a muted color, mostly tan background. In the center is a circular, tan vase-like object with a circle shaped hole at the top. Red flowers are held by the vase and are surrounded by strokes of green and blue. A swirling stroke of black reached up from the plants and to the right side, where it turns blue and is surrounded by smaller strokes of red and green.

Where I Am Now 2

Barbara Krupp

Semi abstract acrylic painting of what looks to be red flowers sitting next to a pale blue vase on a pale blueish gray table.

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An abstract acrylic painting on stretched canvas with a tan background. Swirls of tan and orange decorate the background and strokes of purple and red decorate the swirls of color. Small thick and thin lines of black intertwine with the strokes of color throughout the piece.

Ode to the Trees

Barbara Krupp

An abstract painting with long intertwined swirled red, yellow, black, and brown lines coming from the top right of the painting and down to the left. There is open beige space on the top left.

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