In response to the COVID-19 crisis and public restrictions, Shoebox PR has created a project for artists to collaborate from a distance. One-hundred artists participated in the first installment of the project. Artists were paired randomly.

ROUND 7:

Paired with artist Denise Fontaine-Pincince, Belchertown, MA

Denise Fontaine-Pincince, Something New, mixed media

Kayla Cloonan, “Nest”

ROUND 6:

Paired with artist Stacie B. Greene, San Diego, CA

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ROUND 5:

Paired with artist Michelle Lopate, Hollywood, FL.

Michelle Lopate

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ROUND 4:

Paired with artist Ashley L. Gnar, Southern California

After no response for days, I decided to create the following collages:

Kayla Cloonan, “Waiting for a Response 1-3”, digital collages

Another few days past, still no response:

Kayla Cloonan, “Still Waiting”, digital collage

Still no response. The round ended with just me.

ROUND 3:

Paired with artist Anne M. Bray in Los Angeles.

Call & Response #1

KC “The Barriers were there and Now they’re Gone #1”

KC “The Barriers were there and Now they’re Gone #2”

KC “The Barriers were there and Now they’re Gone #3”

KC “The Barriers were there and Now they’re Gone #4”

Call & Response #2

Call & Response #3

Anne M. Bray, WORK IN PROGRESS

Kayla Cloonan, “History of Yarn”, 13 yarns, 2 days, hand wound spool

Call & Response #4

Anne M. Bray, Untitled, hand rolled yarn from leftover thread and embroidery floss

Kayla Cloonan, “Align”, “Misalign”, “Missing”, digital photographs

Call & Response #5

Anne M. Bray, “JARS”, digital photography collage

Kayla Cloonan, “Syntax: A Conceptual Experiment of Receptacles”
photographs of thesaurus pages
audio of tonal poem
marker drawings on grid paper

Call & Response #6

Anne M. Bray, “Untitled”, fabric weaving with bobby pins

Kayla Cloonan, “An Act of Failed Preservation 1-4″, safety pinned plaster casts nailed to wood panel

Call & Response #7

Call & Response #8

Anne M. Bray, “Nine Used Gloves from the Floor of My Car”

Kayla Cloonan, “Feel Free to Take the Flowers”, installation; fabric flowers on astroturf

Call & Response #9

Call & Response #10

Anne M. Bray, “Roll Call”, installation

Kayla Cloonan, “A Monument to Emptiness”, installation

Call & Response #11

Call & Response #12

Kayla Cloonan “Outtakes from Going Blindly Into the Future”

Call & Response #13

Anne M. Bray, “Untitled”, fabric, thread, blue painters tape on cardboard

Kayla Cloonan, “Self Portrait with Drawing”, digital photography edited on iPhone

Call & Response #14

KC “No Instructions were Included in the Bag”

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ROUND 2:

Paired with artist Elizabeth Flinsch in Minnesota.

Call & Response #1

Kayla Cloonan, “I Won’t Slow Down”, digital collage

Elizabeth Flinsch, “Out of the Wind”, photo through ground glass with digital collage

Call & Response #2

Call & Response #3

Kayla Cloonan, “The Grid Can’t Contain Me”

Elizabeth Flinsch, “The River with You”

Transcription:

When we stood by the
river and cried together
I cast my eyes down-
ward. The silence shook
the trees and all I
could hear were the
small ripples of the
current dancing