University Hospitals staff and visitors created these 16 posters using the COVID-screening stickers they were given each day.CLEVELAND, Ohio – Call it community art. Or transformative art. Or maybe even COVID art, given that it was birthed in the throes of the pandemic.
“It was just an amazing project,” said Tom Huck, art curator for University Hospitals. “When I saw it come together, I said this has to be an exhibition.” A rendition of Claude Monet’s “San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk” took shape while hanging in the walkway that crosses over Cornell Road and leads from the hospital to a parking garage.
In some cases, Chavez accommodated the desires of various medical departments. The staff in the post-surgical unit on the third floor of Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, asked for something that represented perseverance but also had the image of a fish – because the stickers reminded the staff of fish scales.