The Duke University public art exhibition RESIST COVID / TAKE 6! gives us tools to resist COVID in our home communities.

Those in the Duke community are invited to participate in this exhibition and share its important messages. Keep reading for details on a giveaway.

RESIST COVID / TAKE 6! is an outdoor exhibition and public awareness campaign by the artist Carrie Mae Weems. It is the first exhibition presented at Duke and around Durham by the Nasher Museum, Duke Health, and Duke Arts. The artwork is both hopeful (“Don’t Worry, We’ll Hold Hands Again”) and forceful — especially in its reminder that COVID-19 is more lethal to communities of color. Learn more and see installation images on the exhibition web page.

The installation at Duke, in the Duke Arts District, is complete, and community installations have started to appear — most recently at the American Dance Festival studio on Broad Street and at Lincoln Community Health Center. More installations will appear between now and the beginning of the new year at sites including the Health & Human Services Building and Durham Transit Station. See an interactive map.

You can:
• Request a yard sign, 8x10” poster, and button for your personal use/home (for first 100 sign ups).
• Share exhibition artwork on your social/emails/etc (#resistcovidtake6) with reminders to be safe and information about the exhibition
• Respond to the artwork or invite others to respond (a collaboration with Duke’s Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation)
• Duke faculty, classes, and students: Request a safe outdoors tour of the exhibition