Making Masks, Artists Respond to the Social Imperative*

Museums and cultural institutions are currently shuttered during the global pandemic and subsequent stay at home orders. Artist’s reliance upon these spaces is now upended, and makers have to fend for themselves. As with most artists, they have an eye towards the public response. The turn to creating masks is their answer to the social imperative of a wartime society in desperate need of PPE (personal protective equipment) for its citizens.

Informality has spoken to several artists around the country to ask how they’ve transformed…