COVID-19 Pops-Up in Art

The DSU Sears Art Museum is proud to unveil a surprise exhibit, which is currently being shown in the Eccles Fine Arts Center Grand Foyer now through August 28th! This small show, COVID-19 Pops-Up in Art, features some amazing pieces that will let you view the recent pandemic through new eyes. The museum invited Southern Utah artists to reflect and record the effects of the new normal through their art, and then submit it to this topical pop-up show.

“Please make every effort to get out and see this show. It is a beautiful example of Art speaking to our community and our common culture,” said Jeff Jarvis, DSU Dean of College of the Arts, said in a statement about the new exhibition. “The power of art to express our deepest thoughts and feelings is what brings us back over and over to galleries and museums. What we often overlook is the power of art to stimulate deeper thinking about our culture, our world and our community. This show will do both, express our deepest thoughts and feelings, and stimulate deeper thought about what we have lived through these past few months.”

Visitors are strongly encouraged to participate in the experience as well by wearing face masks and following social distancing guidelines. This is a unique opportunity to see history being made and being recorded via art for historians of the future to look back on.

Also on display in the foyer during this time is a new series from Stewart Seidman, a New York painter turned St. George resident, who was kind enough to let the Sears Art Museum show his work on short notice.

“I want to show you – the viewer – what has happened, what can happen and what is happening” Seidman said of his latest series depicting the coronavirus pandemic.

The DSU Sears Art Museum is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and is closed on weekends and school holidays. COVID-19 Pops-Up in Art is free to the public.