Today was a hopeful day full of positive connections. I attended an inspiring virtual meeting with ADRI, The Penn State Arts and Design Research Incubator under the direction of William Doan, ADRI Director and Professor of Theatre, Artist-in-Residence in The College of Nursing and Tara Cami who manages programming operation and commmunications for the research incubator.  ADRI seeks to improve lives through research and applications of the arts and design practices for health and well-being.  I will hope to post here at the artinpandemic.com blog some posts about research and projects from ADRI and their associates.  For now I will link you to William Doan's graphic arts and story work featured in The Annals of International Medicine, "Annals Graphic Medicine- Thoughts and Images from an Artist Working to Find Mental Health Balance During a Pandemic".    I am always inspired when talented people active in the arts and  interdisciplinary work join to share their research and current ideas.

On Twitter this morning Erik Kostiuk's comic offers a critical view of common pandemic metaphor nowtoronto.com/culture/comic-eric-kostiuk-williams-covid-and-its-metaphors/




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My husband set up a table in the basement with things we could need in the event one of us gets sick and might need to be quarantined in the adjacent family room for a period of time.  When things open up again in Ontario and more people are working and  begin to circulate we expect there could be a second wave of sickness in our community..it will likely be more difficult to avoid being infected...the table set up is a practical thing to do and I think wise. 

An intersection of arts and science with NASA's new Earth Day Poster process breakdown by Art Director Jenny Mottar 

Pandemic the time for ​contemporary "maintenance" ART

In the news today a powerful new essay, "You are Waiting for the Surge" by Jay Baruch MD Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Medical Humanities and Bioethics Alpert Medical School of Brown University

A daily log as time goes by...from inside and outside.. during the Global Pandemic of 2020.