Art From the Frontlines: Visual Expressions from Medical Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Art from the Frontlines: Visual Expressions from Medical Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic is an exhibit that features artwork created by healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as in-depth interviews with the artists. The discussions and artwork take a deeper look into the struggles and everyday battles that the healthcare industry faced at the height of the pandemic and continues to face as we work towards mass vaccinations. This exhibit places a human face on the “essential workers” who worked diligently to keep us all safe, honoring their contributions and celebrating the ways in which they coped during this trying time.  

This exhibit showcases artwork by: 

• MK Czerwiec, RN, MA aka Comic Nurse of GraphicMedicine.org
• Dr. Grace Farris MD, Chief of Hospital Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City 
• Dr. Michael Natter, Endocrinology Fellow at NYU/Bellevue in New York City
• Marina Peix Asensio, Pediatric Nurse from University Hospital of Cruces in Bilbao, Spain 
• Prescription Cartoons, a Nurse Practitioner from New York
• Dr. Ali Tayyeb PhD, RN, from the Patricia A. Chin School of Nursing, California State University, Los Angeles
• Dr. Alex Thomas MD, Pediatric Allergist at the Center for Asthma and Allegries in Chicago, Illinois
• Tolo Villalonga Mut, Pediatric Nurse Specialist from Mallorca, Spain