The moving exhibit “LIVING ICONS: A Commemoration of the Victims of Houston’s CoVid-19 Pandemic” has found a permanent home at the Quentin Mease Health Center. It will grace the grand entryway of the administrative and rehab center there. The exhibit created by international artist Joni Zavitsanos with her collaborator Karen Hoovestol Weimmer has had a […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos and her collaborator Karen Hoovestol Weimmer will be at the Houston health museum Sunday December 5 from 11 am – 5 pm to talk about the exhibit “LIVING ICONS: A Commemoration of the Victims of Houston’s CoVid-19 Pandemic.” The exhibit has been extended through at least May at the John P. […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos was interviewed October 12 by Craig Cohen on his radio show Houston Matters on Houston Public Media, the Houston-based NPR station. They discussed her “LIVING ICONS: A Commemoration of the Victims of Houston’s Covid-19 Pandemic” which will be on display this October 16 through next year at the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science in Houston. You […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos’ “LIVING ICONS: A Commemoration of the Victims of Houston’s Covid-19 Pandemic” will be on display this October 16 and run at least through May 2022 (update) at the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science in Houston. The museum website notes: “Living Icons is a photo exhibit that features hundreds […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos was quoted and pictured in a Reuters’ piece U.S. COVID-19 deaths cross painful 600,000 milestone as country reopens. In a story about the pain American families have suffered because of CoVid, the news service discusses the amazing memorial Ms. Zavitsanos has developed to honor the Houston area dead. “In Houston, artist […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos writes about the tragic stories of Texas prisoners who died of Covid-19 that she learned about while creating her tribute art piece “LIVING ICONS: A Commemoration of the Victims of Houston’s Covid-19 Pandemic.” In Covid in the Prisons: The Ungrievable Neighbor featured in Public Orthodoxy, a publication of the Orthodox Christian […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos’ “LIVING ICONS: A Commemoration of the Victims of Houston’s Covid-19 Pandemic” will be on display this October 2021 – May 2022(update) at the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science in Houston. Ms. Zavitsanos said of this exhibit: “This Project and the creative catalyst it generated found its way […]
Artist Joni Zavitsanos is profiled in an interview on the website ShoutoutHTX in Meet Joni Zavitsanos: Artist where she discusses her CoVid memorial project, her art, her muses and places she loves in Houston. Ms. Zavitsanos explains how she decided to memorialize Houston area victims of the CoVid pandemic. She scoured local news and reached […]
In an ABC-TV “Localish” feature “Artist wants you to see the faces of COVID-19 victims” the COVID-19 victims memorial of international artist Joni Zavitsanos is illustrated and explained. “It doesn’t mean so much when you hear the statistics on the news. So I hope that I am giving these people a face and a name,” […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos’ touching mosaic memorial honoring the Houston area people killed by COVID-19 was featured in the Houston Chronicle story “Houston artist launches a COVID memorial project.” A story by senior writer Molly Glentzer chronicled how Ms. Zavitsanos started gathering names slowly in the spring but wound up getting more and more folks […]