Prayers for the pandemic project at Topps for JCAST 2021
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Beginning October, 2021, for Jersey City Artist Studio Tour, select prayer flags from the Prayers for the Pandemic exhibit, a Drawing Rooms nationwide public art project inspired by Tibetan Prayer Flags, can be seen at the Topps Building, 926 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ
In the early days of the pandemic, 100 artists across the country were accepted into this exhibition and asked to hang their prayers flags outside their homes, apartment buildings and college campuses, in woods and public parks. While many were isolated, and travel was limited by corona virus, the artists found a way to reach out to their local community and also create an interconnected community with each other through this project. Now, select flags are gathered together outside Drawing Rooms as a symbol of hope and a reminder that we all need to continue to be vigilant for the safety of ourselves and others. Artists Included at the Topps Building: Alpana Mittal, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Candice Greathouse, Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar, Eileen Ferara, Elie Porter Trubert, Judy Sirota Rosenthal, Karen Kertesz-Sklar, Kat Chudy, Kate Daley, Kate Dodd, Kellie Murphy, Lucy and Liz Rovetto, Margaret Roleke, Mey-Mey Lim, Mollie Thonneson, Nanette Reynolds Beachner and Natalie Moore. |
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image of Susan Chorpenning prayer flags
Meet the Artists of the
Prayers Exhibit
Zoom Program
See the artists speak about the prayer flags they made as part of the nation-wide public art exhibition,
Prayers for the Pandemic: Moderated by Drawing Rooms Curator Anne Trauben.
Beginning 5/11/21, the Program included six weekly sessions that continued through June 15th 2021
See videos of all the sessions below.
Prayers for the Pandemic: Moderated by Drawing Rooms Curator Anne Trauben.
Beginning 5/11/21, the Program included six weekly sessions that continued through June 15th 2021
See videos of all the sessions below.
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May 11, 2021 Session 1 Video: features artists
Anne McKeown, Carole Loeffler, Charlotte Kreutz, Cheryl Gross, Eileen Hoffman, Eugenio Espinosa, Jan Aiello, Jodie Fink, Margaret Roleke, Patricia Dahlman. |
May 18, 2021 Session 2 Video: features artists:
Candice Greathouse, Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar, EIleen Ferara, June He, Kristin Reed, Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern, Poramit Thantapalit, Trish Gianakis. |
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May 25, 2021 Session 3 Video: features artists Caridad Kennedy, Donna Bassin. Elizabeth Mead, Huey Min Chuang, Kat Chudy, Kate Daley, Nanette Reynolds Beachner, Kimberley Wiseman.
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June 1, 2021 Session 4 Video: features artists: Beatrice Mady, Judy Sirota Rosenthal, Leslie Nobler, Lise Kjaer, Mey-Mey Lim, Mollie Thonneson, Snow Mack, Sunny Chapman
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June 8, 2021 Session 5 Video: features artists Anne Dushanko Dobek, Elie Porter Trubert, Harriet Finck, Kat Chudy, Kate Dodd, Natalie Moore, Suzette Marie Martin.
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June 15, 2021: features artists Alpana Mittal "Tejaswini", Anne Trauben, Cheryl Gross, Donna Conklin King, Jill Scipione, Mona Brody, Ruth Sack, Susan Chorpenning, Teressa Valla.
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Prayers for the Pandemic, Prayers for Progress; Prayers for the Planet; Prayers for the Presidency,
Volume Three
Prayers for the Pandemic, Prayers for Progress; Prayers for the Planet; Prayers for the Presidency
The third wave of artists from New Jersey and locations across the country have put out their prayers flags at their homes, apartment buildings and college campuses, in woods and public parks. While many are isolated, and travel is limited by coronavirus, these artists have found a way to reach out to their local community and also create an interconnected community with each other through the prayer flag project.
The third wave of artists from New Jersey and locations across the country have put out their prayers flags at their homes, apartment buildings and college campuses, in woods and public parks. While many are isolated, and travel is limited by coronavirus, these artists have found a way to reach out to their local community and also create an interconnected community with each other through the prayer flag project.
Cover image by Candice Greathouse
This third collection of the project includes community flag displays at ten Jersey City Libraries, and 70 feet of prayer flags at the Topps Building along Newark Ave, outside Drawing Rooms gallery.
View Volume Three online catalog HERE
PURCHASE Volume Three print catalog HERE
View Volume Three online catalog HERE
PURCHASE Volume Three print catalog HERE
- Paperback: 106 pages/8.5" square
- 10% of proceeds goes to Black Lives Matter Global Network.
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for progress, Volume Two
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress
The second volume of our national prayer flag project is now online. This edition includes 32 individual artists and a group of 13.
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress is an ongoing local and national show of artists prayer flags that draws inspiration from Tibetan prayer flags used to bless the surrounding area. While we are all living through the coronavirus pandemic and the fight to create racial justice and equality, we feel we could all use blessings. We want to send good and positive Karma out into the world, and brighten each other’s days in the special way that art can do locally, nationally, and around the world.
The second volume of our national prayer flag project is now online. This edition includes 32 individual artists and a group of 13.
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress is an ongoing local and national show of artists prayer flags that draws inspiration from Tibetan prayer flags used to bless the surrounding area. While we are all living through the coronavirus pandemic and the fight to create racial justice and equality, we feel we could all use blessings. We want to send good and positive Karma out into the world, and brighten each other’s days in the special way that art can do locally, nationally, and around the world.
Cover image by Donna Bassin
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress is our ongoing public art project happening across the United States. The concept draws inspiration from Tibetan prayer flags made of colorful rectangular cloth that are strung along trails and peaks high in the Himalayas, and used to bless the surrounding area in which they are placed.
In this catalog, our second collection, we continue to receive images and stories from artists in the NY/NJ area, as well as across the country.
View Volume Two online catalog HERE
PURCHASE Volume Two print catalog HERE
In this catalog, our second collection, we continue to receive images and stories from artists in the NY/NJ area, as well as across the country.
View Volume Two online catalog HERE
PURCHASE Volume Two print catalog HERE
- Paperback: 115 pages 8.5 inches square
- 10% of proceeds goes to Black Lives Matter Global Network.
Prayers for the Pandemic, Volume OnePrayers for the Pandemic
We have collected the first group of 34 artists images and thoughts into a catalogue now available online and in-print. Volume One features flags flying from California to New York City to Florida– flags hanging on the sides of buildings, in the windows of suburban homes and storefronts, on a wooden country fence and a barbed wire ranch enclosure, in medical labs, strung between trees in parks, over city streets and everywhere that we are sheltering through this time. View Volume One online catalog HERE PURCHASE Volume One print catalog HERE
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Cover image by Donna Bassin
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