About “marking lives covid-19”

Conceived by Concord-based visual artist Elizabeth Awalt, “Marking Lives COVID-19” is born from a desire to acknowledge and commemorate lives lost in America to COVID-19. Elizabeth invited the community to join this collective art project. Artists were asked to make at least 1,000 marks of any kind in the artist’s medium on any surface. Artists posted images of their works to social channels under the hashtag #markinglivescovid19. Once “Marking Lives COVID-19 has “marked” the majority of lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S., it will serve as a memorial to this tragic era, similar to the powerful AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Project News

A video of the exhibition “Remembering Together: Marking Lives COVID-19” is now available to view on You Tube. You can click on the image above to view the show. The exhibition, "Remembering Together: Marking Lives COVID-19" is now closed. The exhibit was hosted at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard from Sept 27 - Nov 19, 2021. Thank you to co-curator Deborah Davidson, Shannon Humphreys and Nora Long of the Broad Institute and all of the artists, and supporters who helped make the exhibition a success!