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Adorning the entryway of the Orange County Museum of Art through Sunday is an art installation whose vibrancy takes on a poignant new meaning when viewers contemplate the message behind it.
A swath of vibrant red felt roses provides a sobering visual representation of the nearly 4,000 county residents who have lost their lives to COVID-19 and the countless individuals impacted by that loss. As of Tuesday, the county’s death toll stood at 3,952.
Partially handcrafted by community volunteers, many of whom wish to memorialize loved ones lost, the Orange County display is one of several cropping up in Southern California near the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
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Three Orange County visual arts organizations will receive a total of $300,000 in grants from the L.A.-based Getty Foundation, which recently announced that 45 Southern California cultural, educational and scientific institutions will receive funds as part of the Getty’s newest Pacific Standard Time (PST) initiative.
The Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, and Beall Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine will receive $100,000 each for the next edition of PST, which is scheduled to open in 2024 and will explore connections between art and science.
In total, the Getty Foundation, which fulfills the philanthropic mission of the massively loaded Getty Trust, is providing $5.38 million in exhibition research grants. A second round of grants to support the implementation of the exhibitions will be announced at a later date.
The installation, to be made by Los Angeles-based artist Marcos Lutyens using handmade roses, will memorialize those lost in Orange County because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum to be part of next Pacific Standard Time
The Laguna Beach Art Museum received a $100,000 grant to prepare for its upcoming participation in the art and science initiative, “Pacific Standard Time,” the third edition of which is coming in 2024.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)
The Orange County Museum of Art announced Thursday it has received a $100,000 grant from the Getty Foundation for exhibition research ahead of its upcoming participation in a regional art and science initiative, “Pacific Standard Time.”
The exhibit “Sea Change: Toward New Environmentalisms in the Pacific Ocean” will show at the museum. It will concentrate on art that brings environmental issues in the Pacific Ocean to light and artwork that leads to solutions.