Tag: Evoke feelings

Open Covid Comic – Patton Lab

Objective:

Invite an Indiana University researcher whose lab is working on a COVID vaccine for young children, to pledge to license his work via the Open Covid Pledge.

The Project:

A 1-page comic illustrating why one Indiana University researcher should license his lab’s work via the Open Covid Pledge. We emailed it to him with a note about how much we admire his work and a recommendation for how to print the image.

STRATEGIES:
TRY THIS:

Make a version for your target.

What worked?

It didn’t generate a response from the researcher, but the project helped me build my image-making skills, and I learned a lot about the software I used to create it. I’d never made a visual narrative like this before!

About this project
Creators:

May, 2020

Image/graphic, Online/web thing, Writing

United States, Indianapolis

14 x 8.5 inches when printed

Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Other Notes:

  • Original files can be provided for exhibition

Reflections from Laura Holzman

What skills or perspectives did the collaborators bring to this?

I made this drawing mostly independently – but it was inspired directly by a comic that one of the other groups drafted to send to researchers at the Salk Institute. Theirs also started with the famous quote from Dr. Salk. I liked their idea so I made a new and expanded version, tailored for a different researcher.

Barrel of Vaccines Game Prototype

Objective:

The hopeful objective would be to show how just one university (or person at a university) cannot do this alone. It takes everyone to work together to solve a global problem. By sending this to the university they can see this in a fun and engaging way that will hopefully start a conversation about signing on to the Open Covid Pledge.

The Project:

A game similar to A Barrel of Monkeys.
The game pieces are the logos of different universities that alone will not reach to free the vaccine from the ‘barrel’.

STRATEGIES:
TRY THIS:

Make one.

Workshop it with friends and revise!

What worked?

I think a surprising element of this is the nostalgia of the game for some people, and hopefully just bring a smile to their face and know this is a serious issue but it can be discussed with an open mind.

About this project
Creators:
  • Stacy Early

May, 2020

Installation/Intervention

United States, Memphis

Varies

Creative Commons BY-NC

Other Notes:

Reflections from Stacy Early

What would be your next steps, building on this idea, if you had a million dollars and all the time and skills in the world?

Creating this and sending to all the universities/people we have talked to so they are all ‘linked’ together would be amazing. Sharing on social media and tagging the universities to play virtually and encouraging others to sign on as them being the missing link to freeing the vaccine.

The Vaccine Run

Objective:

We wanted to create images that would catch attention on social media- a little bit weird so people would feel inclined to interact with the images and learn more.

The Project:

My dog and I ran the shape of a vaccine. It was harder than we’d thought it would be.

STRATEGIES:
TRY THIS:

Chart your own route.

Share it with your running group.

What worked?

It was unexpected!

About this project
Creators:
  • Olivia Bonardi
  • Lupo Bonardi

May, 2020

Image/graphic

United States, Boston

3 miles

Public Domain

    Original files can be provided for exhibition

What were some of the responses to this work?

I spoke with people along my route and afterwards through social media- they seemed skeptical, a little tickled, and curious to learn what would compel a person to do such a foolish thing.

What would be your next steps, building on this idea, if you had a million dollars and all the time and skills in the world?

I would make this go viral, have everyone out there running/walking vaccines (double good because it spreads awareness and gets people out exercising).

Respiratory Therapists for a Free Vaccine

Objective:

To get front line workers that work to save the lives of COVID-19 patients to show their support.

The Project:

A team of respiratory therapists from the hospital that recorded the first COVID-19 death in the United States, EvergreenHealth Medical Center, outside of Seattle, WA, took pictures holding signs calling for a free vaccine.

STRATEGIES:
TRY THIS:

Share it on social media. #FreeTheVaccine #PeoplesVaccine

Make a version with people from your community.

What worked?

Compelling images

About this project
Creators:

April, 2020

Image/graphic

United States, Seattle

3024 x 4032 px

Public Domain

Link to Original or High-Res file

Other Notes:

Reflections from Eric Olson

What was the process/journey of creating this work?

While thinking about ways to create images of people showing their support of the Free the Vaccine campaign, a respiratory therapist friend (the people who put critical patients on respirators) told me about his recent short stories reflecting on the experience of working at the first hospital overwhelmed with COVID-19 hospitalizations and with the first recorded COVID-19 death in the United States. I later reached out to him to see if he and his colleagues would do a photoshoot and they were happy to help.