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Davis Downtown COVID-19 Community
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D-693
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library,
Dept. of Special Collections
Title: Davis Downtown COVID-19 Community Art
Project
Creator:
Davis Downtown Business
Association
Identifier/Call Number: D-693
Physical Description:
104 digital
images
Date: 2020
Abstract: In April of 2020,
the Davis Downtown Business Association (DDBA) formed an art
subcommittee to launch and facilitate a communal art project that
would focus on how individuals and families were coping with the
COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place mandate. The Davis
Downtown Community Art Project was one of the City of Davis's
more high profile responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, corralling
artistic and creative responses to life in quarantine from a wide
range of ages and a diversity of community members.
Physical Location: Researchers should
contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections,
as many are stored offsite.
In April of 2020, the Davis Downtown Business Association
(DDBA) formed an art subcommittee to launch and facilitate a
communal art project that would focus on how individuals and
families were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and
shelter-in-place mandate. The collection of art would aim to
serve as a testament to our community's resilience.
[Text supplied by Davis Downtown Business Association]
The Davis Downtown Community Art Project was one of the City
of Davis's more high profile responses to the COVID-19 pandemic,
corralling artistic and creative responses to life in quarantine
from a wide range of ages and a diversity of community members.
The project took the form of a contest in the late spring and
early summer of 2020 in which community members from different
age groups submitted photos of artwork, creative photography, and
computer-rendered images, with the winners from each age group
determined by Facebook likes. The winning selections were made
into post cards and stickers, to support local businesses, and
several images were additionally displayed in the windows of the
old "Watermelon Music" building and creatively wrapped the newly
installed Portland Loos in the downtown business district. This
digital collection includes all submitted images, capturing a
community's personal, multifaceted, and often resilient responses
to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several entries also reflect a
commitment to social justice during the tumultuous summer of
protests following the killing of George Floyd.
[Description by Kevin Miller]
Collection is open for research.
Liz Phillips processed this collection using text provided by
Downtown Davis and Kevin Miller.
[Identification of item], Davis Downtown COVID-19 Community
Art Project, D-693, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis
Library, University of California, Davis.
All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected
under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted
in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University
of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder,
which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Community arts projects -- Davis
(Calif.)
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Black lives matter movement