Channel: Eccles Health Sciences Library Digital Publishing

Category: Education

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Description: Heidi Calega, Artist. BA ’96, University of Utah Heidi is an extraordinary artist and will lead the creative efforts of this project and create sustainable art out of COVID vaccine vials, healthcare waste, and mementos from our community. She currently resides in Denver. She specializes in creating art out of items that would otherwise end up in the landfill. She has been featured in various news articles and news channels in Colorado. Project Art Heals Utah is a collaborative mosaic art project using empty COVID-19 vaccine vials, clean healthcare waste from University of Utah patient care areas, and physical and virtual mementos donated by those that have suffered loss due to COVID-19. The main objective of the project is to create a means to collectively acknowledge and mourn the losses we have experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to create a means to honor our shared resiliency. CONTRIBUTE A PHYSICAL MEMENTO in honor of your loss, to be included in the art piece. Items should be plastic, leather, metal, glass, ceramic, stone, wood. Nothing should be of real value, and flat items work best that are 1-2” in length. Send Directly to the Artist Deadline: April 30, 2022 Project Art Heals Utah 5994 South Holly St # 100 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 CONTRIBUTE A VIRTUAL MEMENTO, to be included on the artheals.utah.edu website. A virtual memento can include a word, a story, a name, a poem, a photo, a drawing, an emoji, a video, a podcast, a tag, a hashtag or anything else that you feel honors your loss. LEARN MORE and CONTRIBUTE by visiting: artheals.utah.edu