My garage becomes a hand made paper studio in the summer. The challenge is to create something new and different each summer. In 2021, I was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan Grant. The Nevada Art Council executed the grant and I had to find a gallery to exhibit “COVID Grief Through Art” to complete the grant. The Depot Gallery in Sparks, Nevada, in collaboration with Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, Nevada, has a small room for exhibiting installations and my installation exhibit with participant interaction fit in that space extremely well. The hand made paper dolls glued to string hung in front of frosted windows, giving them depth. Strings of hand made paper dolls were on the door and wall spaces available.  These string paper dolls represent millions of people worldwide who have died from COVID.

I invited two professional therapists to be available if gallery visitors wanted to share their experiences about COVID. One therapist came for the opening reception and another to the Art Walk.   

I bound blank journals with hand made paper dolls on the front to sell during the exhibit and sold pages of hand made paper.

This is a portable exhibit and is available to exhibit as an installation with people creating their own string paper dolls and adding them to the board with others who have shared their experiences with COVID.