California State University San Marcos
Commencement ceremonies
Parades
Universities and colleges--Professional staff
Marilyn McWilliams (Office of Inclusive Excellence) waves a handmade sign that says "Congrats 2020 Cougars." Craven Drive.
Criselda Yee
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Together/Apart: The COVID-19 Community Memory Archive
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Automobiles, Convertible
Decorated white convertible in CVS parking lot pre-parade.
||||osm San Marcos (Calif.)
Corner of Palm Canyon Drive and Craven Circle
Corner of Palm Canyon Drive and Craven Circle. Lots to see: danicing blue balloon, volunteers holding signs and waving, U.S. Flag hoisted on firetruck extension ladder.
Consolation
Flowers
The first week home my daughter and I were cooking dinner when an unexpected know was at the front door. Cautious and a bit anxious we answered the door to find a huge bouquet of flowers and a note. The Note reads "Tell someone how much they mean to you. We all really need it right now."
Odile Stout
||||osm Carlsbad (Calif.)
Gift baskets
The neighbors brought by an Easter basket like no other. Never has a roll of toilet paper meant so much!
Signs and signboards
Graduation sign for Carillo Elementary 5th grader since no in-class graduation permitted.
James D Phenicie
Grocery shopping
Food supply
Supermarkets
Shelves like these would seemingly rotate around the store depending on the day... If they had received a shipment that day the shelves would have something on them but if it had been a few days then they would be empty. You wouldn't even enter the TP and paper towel aisle - it was not even worth it!
Candles
Collage
Haikus
Paintbrushes
A haiku about things I miss during this quarantine.
Alexandra Munoz
||||osm Vista (Calif.)
Gyms
Closed sign at local gym during pandemic.
COVID-19 (Disease) and the arts
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Essential workers
Medical personnel
The collage is intended as a tribute to the multitude of heroes who sustained us and brought us together as one people during the COVID-19 pandemic. It features healthcare professionals and many other essential workers from across the globe who took care of our physical and emotional needs during a grim period of escalating sickness, death, and intense social isolation. The new coronavirus had no discrimination. It attacked the rich as well as the poor, people of all races, creeds and politics, in over two hundred countries. But it disproportionally harmed the most vulnerable among us: the elderly, the poor, and people of color. Cities across the globe were deserted. Yet doctors and nurses worked tirelessly to save multitudes of lives and held the hands of dying patients unable to be with their loved ones. With protective equipment scarce, some nurses improvised scrubs from plastic trash bags. Paramedics, police, firemen and other first responders continued to safeguard us. Grocery workers, farm workers, delivery people, caretakers, and janitors continued to provide essential services, regardless of the risk to their own lives. Volunteers cared for the hungry, manning food banks and handing out food to the homeless. Hungry families lined up in their cars to receive food packages at parking lots. Musicians improvised ways to lift our spirits. To support frontline healthcare workers, the Global Citizen organization gathered together musicians from around the world to broadcast and stream a two-hour concert into our homes. The historic “One World: Together at Home” concert was the source of many of the photographs in this collage. This is a small representation of those who helped us, some risking, even losing their lives to save us. May they inspire us to link our hands together around the world in unity.
Virginia Gabrielle O'Flaherty
COVID-19 (Disease)
Disinfection and disinfectants
Worker at Costco in Carlsbad, CA spraying disinfect on push carts before customers can use them during the COVID-19 lock down.
Birthdays
Signs announcing Happy Birthday for residence who drive by and send well-wishes since parties are banned due to COVID19.
Amusement parks
Parking lots
Aerial photo of empty parking lots at Belmont Park, Mission Bay.
Gary Severt
John Grasberger
||||osm Mission Bay (Calif.)
Medical care
Health Care campus at Kaiser Permamente closed with sign directing patients to outside tents.
Universities and colleges--Faculty
2 faculty members. One in regalia, one in white pants holding sign that says "Congrats ABSN 31 TBSN 13." Craven Drive.
COVID-19 (Disease)--Economic aspects
Restaurants
Small business
Outdoor dining setup at local institution Filippi's Pizza Grotto. In an effort to keep local businesses afloat, the parking lane of Grand Avenue has been closed off with concrete barriers, allowing businesses to set up outdoor dining. Businesses and artists have painted the concrete barriers, creating small outdoor murals that run along 3 or 4 blocks on both sides of the street. The center lane of Grand Avenue is now given over to parking, with traffic moving along the left lane. Despite the efforts of the city, there seem to be a number of vacant storefronts, indicating businesses that have gone under in the past year.
Sean Visintainer
||||osm Escondido (Calif.)
Masks
Sewing
Photo of CY and Flat Crash, both wearing masks. I joined a county-wide sewing collective (before the CSUSM sewing group was created): "Uniting with Homemade Masks - San Diego County". Together, we sewed over 3,000 masks for frontline workers, caregivers, first responders, USPS and school district food service workers, etc. Personally, I made almost 200 masks, some of which also went to family, co-workers and neighbors.
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||||osm Poway (Calif.)
Kahlo, Frida
Mural painting and decoration
Escondido mural at Grape Day Park. Image of mural outside the California Center for the Arts. The mural is an advertisement for their Frida Kahlo exhibition, but seemed appropriate for the times we're in.
California Center for the Arts
||||osm Escondido (Calf.)
Breweries
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects
Mead
The parking lane, outdoor dining/drinking space, and outdoor taproom of Good Omen Meadery in Escondido (now out of business). In an effort to keep local businesses afloat, the parking lane of Grand Avenue has been closed off with concrete barriers, allowing businesses to set up outdoor dining. Businesses and artists have painted the concrete barriers, creating small outdoor murals that run along 3 or 4 blocks on both sides of the street. The center lane of Grand Avenue is now given over to parking, with traffic moving along the left lane. Despite the efforts of the city, there seem to be a number of vacant storefronts, indicating businesses that have gone under in the past year.
College graduates
One female grad leaning out of her car window, holding out both arms, holding a balloon bouquet. Parking Lot F.
One female grad sitting outside her car window. Colorful graduation banner ("Congratulations 2020") on side of black Honda. Parking Lot F.
Large black SUV with one student sitting outside his window. White and black banner on side ("Congrats grad!"). Blue and silver balloons and gold balloon numbers. Parking Lot F.
CSUSM University Library
Beaches
Police
Sheriff Deputy guarding the Swami Beach Parking lot after it was closed due to pandemic.
||||osm Encinitas (Calif.)
Handmade warning sign posted by neighbor during the pandemic. Sign reads "Please don't be a cov-idiot! Repsect your neighbors & the rules and STAY OFF THE PATH! Yes, that means YOU!"
Have you experienced a momentous life event since this began, such as an anniversary, birth, birthday, death, engagement, graduation, wedding, etc.? How has sheltering in place affected your experience?
Death (Biology)
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Mother's Day
Quarantine
Thanksgiving
Weddings
Wineries
Excerpts of replies to the questions "Have you experienced a momentous life event since this began, such as an anniversary, birth, birthday, death, engagement, graduation, wedding, etc.? How has sheltering in place affected your experience?" from guided questionnaires submitted to Together/Apart: The COVID-19 Community Memory Archive.
Anonymous
Andrea Caro
Brenda Aguilar
Eric Noriega
Hayley Stevenson
Michael Yee