Kristina Libby,
The Floral Heart Project on the Brooklyn Bridge. Photo by Erica Reade Images @ericareadeimages/Floral Heart Project @lightvslight.
New Yorker Kristina Libby began placing heart-shaped flower wreaths in prominent sites across the city last April, when the first wave of the pandemic was at its terrifying height.
“I laid a heart because I was grieving and I wanted to do something to recognize our losses,” the artist said in a statement. “Community matters now more than ever, and one way we can grow community is by grieving together.”
The project has since blossomed into something greater. On March 1, volunteers created
The Cape Ann Museum COVID 19 Memorial, including video art by LuminArtz, a memorial quilt, and the Cape Ann Cairns memorial, constructed by people who have lost loved ones to the virus that was declared a pandemic one year ago.Matthew J Lee/Globe staff
One year after a state of emergency was declared due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester dedicated a temporary art installation to local victims during an online ceremony on Wednesday.
The installation honors at least 41 people from Gloucester, 61 people from elsewhere on
Cape Ann, and more than 2,000 people from Essex County who have died from COVID-19, Oliver Barker, director of the Cape Ann Museum, said during the 6 p.m. ceremony
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The Cape Ann Museum COVID-19 Memorial opens Wednesday with an online ceremony. The public can then visit in person through Sunday.Matthew J Lee/Globe staff
GLOUCESTER â This week, as dark falls over Gloucester, soft fragments of light will gently flutter upward over a wall at the Cape Ann Museum Green as if ascending to heaven. The light projection by LuminArtz is part of the Cape Ann Museum COVID-19 Memorial, which opens Wednesday with an online ceremony and vigil. The public can visit in person through Sunday.
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To commemorate the community’s profound loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cape Ann Museum is creating a temporary art installation to pay tribute to those who died from the deadly virus including 35 people in Gloucester, 55 people from Cape Ann and more than 2,000 people from Essex County.
The COVID-19 Memorial will be dedicated at CAM Green during a virtual online ceremony on March 10 and will be open to the public through March 14.
In partnership with the city of Gloucester and LuminArtz, the Cape Ann Museum COVID-19 Memorial comprises three parts: a video art installation from LuminArtz, the Cape Ann Cairns Memorial and the Gloucester Memorial Quilt.