By Grant Yun | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | Phase 2
Grant Yun is a Milwaukee-based artist who is most recognized for reimagining American Realism and Regionalism through a 21st century approach. In this poster, Grant stresses the overarching importance of working together to continue the effort against Covid-19.
By Tonia Klein | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | Phase 2
Tonia Klein started the Cudahy Art Coalition LLC in 2020 with co-founder Joan Houlehen. Her poster design is based on an actual event that happened when isolated due to Covid-19. Learn more, below.
Sonia Vasquez is an artist living and working out of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. For this piece, she was inspired by Victorian advertisements and medicine - imagining what a Covid vaccine poster might look like in the 19th century.
The text on this poster is meant to evoke hope, comfort, and relief from the pressure to “get back to normal” in the face of great loss. The artist hopes this piece will help people meet their grief with acceptance while also finding strength in the knowledge that it will not last forever.
By Bao Xiong | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | Phase 2
Bao Xiong is an author and artist based out of Wisconsin. Growing up with Hmong folklore and true ghost stories inspired her books Folklore and The Butchers published through Moth House Press. Her poster illustrates that science finds a way to address life's challenges.
By T.L. Luke | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | Phase 2
T.L. Luke is an artist based in Madison, Wisconsin. The poppies in the background of her poster allude to the Bubonic Plague in an effort to stress the omminous threat of Covid-19.
by Colin Matthes | May 27, 2020 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project
Colin Matthes (Milwaukee, WI) is an artist. He combines improvised utilitarian construction techniques with instructional drawing, spectacle, and civically minded projects that range from group knowledge archiving sessions to “eco” demolition derbies. He always shows the means of production - the process, the fingerprints, the screwups.
In this piece, inspired by vintage video games from the 80s and 90s, Jay explores the impact a vaccine has on a virus and evokes parallels to way the pandemic has be taken frivolously.
by Yeonhee Cheong | May 13, 2020 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project
Yeonhee Cheong is a visual artist who studies the social language of women’s bodies and outfits. She is a lecturer at Design Studies department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Describing her poster, she reflected that "the war against COVID-19 virus has disrupted the conventional way of how we unite to fight. We should keep apart and protect selves from others, in order to protect others as well. Though against our natural instinct, this is the knowledgeable and effective way to win this war that everyone should follow."
Stephanie Carpenter is a letterpress printer, educator, and graphic designer. This poster is about finding reliable information to learn about staying safe and healthy during the pandemic.
By Martha Liang | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | High Schoolers
Martha Liang is from Cambridge High School. Martha loves taking every opportunity to create and be involved in the community. Restricted outings during the pandemic provided time to practice and learn.
By Kerrianna Rought | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | High School Student
Kerrianna Rought is from Capital High School (East). Kerrianna uses art to entertain and educate. For this poster, they wanted to do their part to follow COVID precautions and also educate others on doing the same.