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NADA x Foreland will run over Upstate Art Weekend, August 28-29. Just a year ago, all socializing was plagued by a sense of tension and restraint. A peculiar and off-putting air of emotional distance accompanied the social distance mandated by health agencies. Gatherings were safest outdoors, and we were forced to accessorize with masks a constant reminder of the bleak state of the world. A year later, in-person events have fully resumed and we cautiously lower our masks to reveal hopeful smiles. With the financial gauntlet that the pandemic thrust upon small businesses, it seems a pretty reliable indicator of our creeping return toward normalcy that new places have begun to open up. Here in the Hudson Valley, a handful of galleries have opened in the past year, adding to the curatorial shaping the the region going forward.
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Almost exactly one year ago, the pandemic caused a cascade of school and university closures, sending 9 out of 10 students home as the coronavirus raced through the United States and the rest of the world.
By Labor Day, 62% of U.S. students were still learning virtually, according to the organization Burbio. That number dropped significantly during the fall and rose in the winter as COVID-19 surged. And today, just under 1 in 4 public school students attends a district that still hasn t held a single day of in-person learning.
Colleges have seen widespread disruption, too: In the fall, only about 20% of four-year colleges offered any classes in person. And while that number has come up a bit for the spring semester, most college students even if they live on campus are taking classes virtually.