Shelter Projects 01 – Willson Center Annual Report 2021

shelter projects

In the spring of 2020 the Willson Center, in partnership with the Graduate School, the UGA Arts Council, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and Flagpole magazine, awarded 34 micro-fellowships in a new program we called Shelter Projects. The $500 fellowships supported graduate students and community-based artists and practitioners in the creation of shareable reflections on their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic through the arts and humanities.

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Aaron Strand
“Here with Me”
Short film

here with me

Katharine Miele
#AloneTogether
Series of embroidered portraits of couches

Embroidered artwork of a couch with cushions, depicted in abstract shades of green, blue, and purple tones.

Hannah Jones
“Shelter in Space: Retreat into Color”
Short film

SJ Henderson
“Define Pandemic?”
Poem / spoken word performance

A woman with long braids wears an olive green sweatshirt with the text, “America is mad at Black people for saying Black Lives Matter. Were mad we have to say it at all.”.

Cheryl Washburn
Sheltering in Nature
Series of oil paintings