From a Distance
What represents your self care practices in this time of COVID-19? What might you draw on this mask template?
From a Distance is a collaborative poster designed by BioJam teens which has been selected to be exhibited in the Norman Y. Mineta International San José Airport Holding the Moment: 2-D Work Exhibition. BioJam Camp participants and teen mentors were invited to use the same paper forms they used to grow conceptual mycelium PPE face masks to create these reflections on their time in COVID-19 during the spring and summer of 2020. They decorated these templates with personal stories that serve as prompts to others to reflect on their own self care routines and their community and cultural science/health knowledge and practices. After this project, the BioJam Camp teens will be imagining their own community engagement projects from scratch and sharing them on the BioJamCamp Instagram account. The mask template can be found here: mask template. Share with us your creation using the hashtag #biojamcampmasks on Instagram.
Using the templates and the teens’ art as inspiration, the San Francisco Opera Costume Department also created art reflections on their time in COVID-19 in the spring and summer to share with the teens, as well as sewed 397 face masks for fieldworker distribution by the teens in collaboration with Xinampa Bio.
BioJam Camp Teens
This past summer, BioJam was a distance learning camp anchored around physical kits and supported with zoom meetings and asynchronous activities.
Teen BioJam Camp participants and Teen Mentors in this poster art project include high school students from San Jose, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Salinas and the Oakland area of California. Artists are: Mele Haile, Penelope Medina Sanchez, Oscar Alessandro Montero, Trisha Sathish, Anne Hu, Emily Takara and Izabella Tejeda.
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