Artist Designed COVID Masks for San Francisco Residents

Curator: COVID Art Projects for SF COVID Command Center 

Artist Designed COVID Masks for San Francisco Residents. Early-2021

Masks for the American Indian Community by Betty Trujillo and Kim Schuck

Masks for the Filipono Community by Lydia Ortiz and Kim Acebo

Masks for the Black Community by Cheryl Derricotte and Ron Moultrie Saunders

Masks for the Chinese Community by Crystal Liu and Nancy Hom

SF COVID Command Center identified four communities most impacted by the COVID-19 and I worked with the Joint Information Center to commission eight local artists to create designs for masks. 26,000 masks were distributed to vaccination sites, senior centers, community centers and food banks across San Francisco. Note: these masks were produced when the CDC was encouraging double-layered cloth masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.