COVID-19 Poster Project

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.

By Sonia Vasquez | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | Phase 2

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.

By Liz Drayna | September, 2021 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project

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.

By Ciara Nash | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | Phase 2

Ciara Nash likes to use vibrant colors, shapes, textures, and movement. This poster promotes community togetherness and support.

By Jera "Jay" Ramirez | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | Phase 2

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 Helene Ramsdell | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | Phase 2

Helene Ramsdell is an artist who speaks softly but expresses her feelings and opinions with a shout on paper.

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."

By Stephanie Carpenter | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | Phase 2

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.

By Jette Thorson | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | High Schoolers

Jette Thorson is a student at Verona High School. Jette is passionate about art, and during the pandemic art has been a creative outlet.

By Sabrina Schmidt | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project | High Schoolers

Sabrina Schmidt is from Statford High School. Her poster expresses hope that recovery from the pandemic is almost in sight, just over the horizon.

by Becca Bryant | July 9, 2020 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project

Becca Bryant is the Creative Director and Founder of local design studio, Urban Root Creative. She specializes in custom designs for branding, campaigns, and marketing. Continued below.

by Renée Graef | July 1, 2020 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project

Renée Graef has illustrated over 80 children's books, including the "Kirsten" books (American Girl), books in the "My First Little House" program (Laura Ingalls Wilder) and "B is for Badger; A Wisconsin Alphabet." She splits her time between Milwaukee and Los Angeles. Continued below.

by Emily Maryniak | June 17, 2020 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project

Emily Maryniak is currently a graphic designer at Distillery Design and Marketing Studio. She majored in Fine Arts, then taught preschool for many years at Preschool of the Arts in Madison. She has recently made a career change to graphic design. Emily has also been a longtime member of Polka! Press, a local printmaking studio.

by Jolyn Sandford | June 10, 2020 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project

Jolyn Sandford is a Madison-based artist and software developer who seeks to celebrate the things she loves through illustration. With roots in the fine arts and computer science, she enjoys examining the intersection of art and tech....(Continued below.)

by Greg 'Biskakone' Johnson | June 3, 2020 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project

Greg 'Biskakone' Johnson is a member of the Lynx Clan and an enrolled member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. His home on the Lac du Flambeau reservation, established by the Treaty of 1854, is also known as Waaswaaganing, “the place of the torch.” Greg lives his life according to the four seasons, as did his ancestors. He harvests deer, fish, maple sugar, berries, wild rice, and wild plants. He is passionate about keeping the traditional ways alive, and he takes every opportunity to teach these ways to others.... (Continued below.)

by Cat Parra | May 20 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project

Cat Parra is a Madison based comic artist and illustrator. Her work primarily explores themes of adventure and self discovery through the lens of historical fiction. In 2015 she co-founded Margins Publishing, a small press publisher focused on producing work by and about people of marginalized identities. Continued below.

by Jerry Jordan | May 6, 2020 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project

Jerry Jordan is part of a growing movement of painters that are reinterpreting classical painting into what they call contemporary realism. He counts such painters as John S. Sargent, Anders Zorn, William M. Chase and Joaquin Sorolla as major influences in his artistic growth. However it was the artist of the Harlem Renaissance that fueled his desire to pursue painting.

by Ashley Town | April 29, 2020 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project

Keep Your Distance is printed on an antique press at Bay View Printing Company, a 103 year old, female-owned business in Milwaukee. Prints are custom designed and printed by hand, one at a time, on an antique printing press – a process that takes time, attention to detail and meticulous care.

by Jim McKiernan | April 22, 2020 | WHS COVID-19 Poster Project

James McKiernan is a native of Madison Wisconsin. He learned to screen print in high school from Mr. Roy Liddicoat, and later studied art at UW Madison and Art Center College in Pasadena, California. He served as President and Creative Director of Studio M in Long Beach, CA and Instructor at Madison College. He continues his studies and is Vice President of the Polka! Press Cooperative in Madison.