Click below to watch the award-winning short doc about the ESSENTIALS project, directed by Lester Platt of @stll_studios. What an honor to be featured!
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ESSENTIALS, by photographer Sarah Wilson, is a community-facing, interactive public art project honoring front-line women workers during the COVID-19 epidemic in Austin, Texas.
After a community-wide call for nominations that yielded over 100 potential honorees, 15 essential women workers were selected to be photographed in a safe and distanced outdoor photo shoot. These earnest portraits highlighting the individuals and the important work they do, were printed large-scale (up to 20 feet tall) and wheat-pasted on participating buildings throughout Austin. Initial funding for the project was provided by the Dougherty Arts Center and Austin's Museums & Cultural Program’s ArtsResponders: Social Practice Responds to COVID-19. The generosity of individual donors through a crowd-funding campaign helped to expand this project well beyond it’s original concept.
