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For those who work in health care, the COVID-19 crisis is taking quite a toll. Many nurses are short not only on medical supplies but on sustaining hope. Cady Chaplin, an ICU nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, has worked with artist Elizabeth Jaeger to bring artists together to show appreciation for health-care workers. When Chaplin’s ICU was designated as a COVID-19 response unit, she requested a “guerrilla gallery of support from the community.” She and Jaeger reached out to artists to create free, downloadable posters to be placed in break rooms for hospital staff.

David Baird’s artistic practice is intimately entwined with his work as an architect. He begins each day by painting, experimenting with countless geometric variations. In a recent series, he overlays biblical texts with columnar forms which migrate across collaged pages. Even when he is not working directly with scripture, an exegetical impulse runs through much of Baird’s work, especially the wooden constructions he produced for his show at Wesley Theological Seminary, entitled Between the Lines: Biblical Speculations.