Artistic Collective Addresses Issues Related To COVID-19

AUSTIN, TX—Throughout the month of March, the community is invited to enjoy the Art Responders program on view in outdoor spaces and created by the City's Museums and Cultural Centers and Austin Parks and Recreation Deparment. The program was unveiled in response City Resolution 20200507-061 and the Austin Civilian Conservation corps that works to put ordinary citizens to work in the fight against COVID-19.

Area Cultural Centers including The Dougherty Arts Center, the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, the George Washington Museum Genealogy and Cultural Center, and the Asian American Resource Center as well as museums, like the Elisabet Ney and Oakwood Cemetery Chapel, commissioned artists to train in Social Practice, and to organize and engage community in an artistic response to cope with and overcome COVID-19.

Art Responders seeks to address the issues around the pandemic that has impacted every Austin resident in the last year. Arts Responders artists selected for the program include Guateque Son, Caroline Walker Studio, Gathering Ground Theater, Lizzie Chen Photography, Sarah Wilson Photography, Doug Laustsen, Rehab Mohammed Elsadek-Ibrahim, Kengo Hioki also known as Peelander Yellow, Jonathan Muzacz, and Criancas de Capoeira Angola.

To learn more about the Arts Responders program, click HERE.