Local Art in the Age of the 2020 Global Pandemic

A Reece Museum Special Collection Initiative in partnership with the Mary B. Martin School of the Arts and community supporters

Closeup of "do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign" by Shannon Mettler


Local Art in the Age of the 2020 Global Pandemic is an exhibition of forty works of art that were made in 2019-2020 by artists living or working in Tennessee's First Congressional District during the early days of the pandemic experience. The administrators and supporters of this initiative wish to thank the 106 artists who submitted artwork for the jurying panel's consideration. This special collection provides an emotive snapshot of artistic expression during th eage of the novel coronavirus pandemic, and is part of the permanent collection of the Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University. 

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