Vaccination center becomes art in the eyes of this gallery director
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated January 20, 2021, 3:00 p.m.
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An image from Kathleen Hancock s âThe Waiting Room.âKathleen Hancock
When Kathleen Hancock, director of Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery at Bristol Community College, returned to the Fall River campus after the holiday break, she found her gallery transformed.
âI walked in and saw a series of chairs, and I thought: How odd,â she said over the phone. âI realized something was afoot.â
The college had taken over the space as a vaccination center for Fall River fire, police, and EMS departments, and the collegeâs police department. But before vaccinations began, to Hancockâs practiced eye, the 40 socially-distanced chairs and three inoculation rooms, delineated with temporary walls, spoke volumes.