PSAs
that no one asked for
I sometimes screen print public service announcements, when I need some refreshing of my sanity. I started doing this early in the COVID-19 pandemic, going for father-son poster-stapling walks late on Saturday nights in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham, and Raleigh, NC, when the towns were nearly empty. Originals of most of these are archived by the Special Collections Library at UNC Chapel Hill.
COVID PSA
March 21, 2020
COVID PSA
March 28, 2020
COVID PSA
April 4, 2020
COVID PSA
April 11, 2020
FAUCI COVID PSA screen print
April 18, 2020
PSA COVID disinfectants screen print
April 25, 2020
COVID art screen print
May 2, 2020
COVID PSA May 2020
May 9, 2020
COVID PSA restaurants food workers
May 16, 2020, frustrated by leaders who pushed economy vs health caution stories, as if we couldn't rally together to support both. A friend who owned a deli kindly shared the take-out bags that we printed on.
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Aug 22, 2020
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Nov 14, 2020. "Toxic Campus Map". Unlike all the other prints on this page, these were never public-facing. I made an edition of 14 in frustration over COVID spread on college campuses, for a print exchange in a class I co-teach. One is archived in UNC Chapel Hill Sloan Art Library's collection.
COVID art virus vaccine 2021
Jan 1, 2021. "Hope". These prints were designed to change gradually over months – as the paper faded, the vaccine gradually appeared and the virus disappeared into the background. I made them as the vaccine was just starting to be distributed widely. To me they felt hopeful but required patience, like planting spring bulbs.
COVID PSA business restaurants
Jan 23, 2021
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Dec 30, 2021. "Remember the Children". COVID cases were just starting to spike again.
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Jan 24, 2022. I printed these in frustration together with an art class at Duke University – a reminder as new cases of COVID were spiking again across the US.