Essential Workers: A Visual Narrative

February 25- March 30, 2023

Essentials Workers: A Visual Narrative is a group exhibition highlighting and honoring essential workers' contributions and services throughout the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sixteen artists were invited nationwide to interview and capture an essential worker's journey and challenges that kept society and the country's health, market, and well-being moving forward during challenging conditions. Some subjects include a bus driver, a border travel nurse, a farmworker, and a correctional officer. Their stories have been captured and memorialized into visual narratives through diverse forms of printmaking.

Participating artists include Marianne Sadowski, Narsiso Martinez, Audrey Chan, Michael Massenburg, Amanda Lee, Hanna Hathaway, Celeste de Luna, Juan de Dios Mora, Charles Cohan, Liz Chalfin, Sojin Kim, Jessica Caldas, Chloe Alexander, Tina Tavera, Carlos Barberena, Poli Marichal, Osvaldo de Jesús.

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The exhibition is made possible by funding from the Pasadena Art Alliance.

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😷 Masking is optional but encouraged.

🧒🏽 All ages welcome.

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