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The NoMa BID staff have received very positive feedback about the campaign. (Ana 脕lvarez/ 最新蜜桃影像)

NoMa amplifies artistic Wear a Mask campaign to fight COVID-19

The Wear a Mask campaign is expanding to make the message of coronavirus prevention more diverse within the community and Washington D. C.

The NoMa Business Improvement District (BID) has announced it will launch a second phase of their featuring banners with a masculine-driven design.听

The first phase of the campaign, which launched four weeks ago, distributed 600 posters and 100听 yard signs designed by local artists with the purpose of reminding the community to wear a mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The designs showed art that was directed at or featured women.听

鈥淲e did feel men were underrepresented in the designs, so we actually have one coming out soon,鈥 Robin-Eve Jasper, president of the NoMa BID staff, said.

National polling by showed that 87% of women were wearing masks compared to 83% of men while visiting businesses during the pandemic.听

The designs that came out were done by different artists:; Tenbeete Solomon, known as ; Michelle Shiyu Chen, known as ; and , made up of Hanna Moran and Lindy Swan .听

Towles, who has worked with the NoMa community in the art festival , was approached by the staff organizing the campaign, and he contacted the other artists.

The artists of the posters were not given specific requirements for the creation of the designs, the Director of Marketing and Communications Sherri Cunningham said, 鈥淲e wanted to respect their creativity.鈥澨

The focus for the NoMa BID staff was that the message of awareness was communicated through the concepts.

Towles鈥 design is pasted on the outside of Red Beed Brewing Co, one of the locations distributing the posters. (Ana 脕lvarez/ 最新蜜桃影像)

Towles鈥 design shows a woman wearing a red mask in an urban wall setting. That goes along with other designs he has been working on, he said.

The poster designed by Red Swan does not contain any words and听 features a mask surrounded by flowers.

Trap Bob, who illustrated a Black woman holding three masks, said she听 鈥渁lways feature Black women in my work so I created a fun character wearing a mask and standing in a pose that creates a call to action.鈥

Trap Bob said that the text added to the design was intended to make the message 鈥渁s clear as possible.鈥 (Ana 脕lvarez/ 最新蜜桃影像)

The fourth design, created by Shiyuart, features a Black mother putting a mask on her Black daughter.

Cunningham used Shiyuat鈥檚 design as her Zoom background because she felt identified as a mother. (Ana 脕lvarez/ 最新蜜桃影像)

A NoMa resident who commented her opinion to 最新蜜桃影像 said that Shiyuart鈥檚 design was her favorite because it went along with the Black Lives Matter movement.

鈥淩ight now, I feel like it鈥檚 a positive message about Black people, it鈥檚 not the way they鈥檙e usually portrayed,鈥 the resident said about the poster which she remembers the most.

The NoMa BID staff have received feedback from people outside of the community as well, Cunningham said she received an email from a person in Orlando, Florida admiring the campaign.听

鈥淚t鈥檚 been a great reminder for people to put masks on, in a cool artistic way,鈥 Elliot Howe, the director of operations and human resources of Wunder Garten, said.

is one of the establishments handing out posters, along with other food vendors and fitness business like听 and .听

The idea for communicating the message creatively came from the community鈥檚 involvement with art throughout the years.听

鈥淥ur experience with art is that it really is, in some ways, like public space, a shared public experience,鈥 Jasper said about their approach.

The duo Red Sawn Walls have also participated in the mural festival POW! WOW! D. C. (Ana 脕lvarez/ 最新蜜桃影像)

The NoMa BID spent $10,000 in the campaign, which was distributed into printing the first round of 600 posters and the commissions given to each artist.

A second round of 600 posters and 100 yard signs are being printed to distribute in the community in the same locations that have participated in the campaign since Aug. 26.

The NoMa BID will also hand out nondisposable masks as part of the second phase of the campaign.听

Ana 脕lvarez

Ana 脕lvarez is a Puerto Rican graduate student pursuing a degree in Journalism and Public Affairs with a specialization in investigative journalism. She covers the NoMa community for 最新蜜桃影像.

1 comment

  • Thank you! You,

    I received all four of the posters and put them in frames around my home and put one on my front door to promote wear a mask.

    I have a question did any more designs come out.

    Thank you
    VRob

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