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Making Masks, Artists Respond to the Social Imperative

Museums and cultural institutions are currently cuckolded during the global pandemic and subsequent stay at home orders. Artist’s reliance upon these spaces is now upended, and makers have to fend for themselves. As with most artists, they have an eye towards the public response. The turn to creating masks is their response to the social imperative of a wartime society in desperate need of PPE…