Covid-19 Archive: Exhibits
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Generational Disparities
Jacob Bransky, Rebecca Hicks, and McLain Sidmore
Our exhibit engages in the issues and disparity of experiences along generational lines, with particular emphasis on children, elders, and schools and communities. While news stories at the outset of the pandemic often highlighted tropes of endangered and isolated seniors and elders, while pointing to children or young adults as unwarry, or even dismissive Coronavirus spreaders, this disease has affected people of all ages and we set out to preserve this full range of impacts in our collection.
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Who Are We?
Elizabeth Budd
A project such as this one can’t be done without the help of a large number of people collecting, contributing, and curating. Here you can get to know some of us and what we’ve been working on for the archive!
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Historical Pandemics at Carleton: H1N1
Elizabeth Lenora Budd
An examination of the response of Carleton College to the H1N1 pandemic of 2009.
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Belonging and Solidarity
Natalie Lafferty, Anne Lim, and Michael Schultz
The goal of this exhibit is to capture how belonging and solidarity within the Carleton community and the broader world were impacted by the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. Each member of the group initially started with a particular area in mind which they tried to concentrate on gathering their items from. This exhibit is trying to capture these individuals' stories and show how these stories and images display a sense of belonging and solidarity, however, these items also show strangeness has evolved and destroyed some individual's sense of belonging as well as a limiting sense of solidarity.
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Carleton Students from Afar
Marcella Lees, Miyuki Mihira, and Clara Posner
From returning home to remaining on an empty campus to finding shelter in an unfamiliar location, students from Carleton College have undergone various challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, separating them from the traditional educational experience. We wanted to share these student stories with the public.
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Pandemic Signage
Elias Levey-Swain and Sam Kwait-Spitzer
Our exhibit engages with a number of distinct themes, and this thematic range reflects the evolution of our inquiry and points of exploration. However, the common thread that ties our exhibit together is public communication. We have centered local institutions in this exhibit, and we hope through exploring our collection you will feel encouraged to consider how COVID-19 has changed the way communities and institutions interact, and howthis interaction, in turn, has changed how we experience the pandemic. Moreover, we hope you will come to consider how these shifts in both method and content of communication are made manifest in the public spaces we all inhabit, in diverse and dynamic ways. Our definition of institution is quite broad, as is our definition of community, and we encourage you to ponder what differentiates one from the other.
