Museums, galleries and art fairs across the globe have postponed or canceled events in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The resulting shutdown has left creative communities scrambling to shift content online to still engage with patrons and share their work. One such effort is the Pandemic Faire, a digital art fair created by North Texas artists Ted Kincaid and Scott Anderson.
“This idea literally came out of the blue,” says Kincaid. "We talked about art fairs being canceled, and how we could quickly set up a fair online that could only be canceled by a computer virus. In about three minutes we had the name and concept. The next morning, Scott had the entire digital template designed, and I started reaching out to fellow artists.”
The fair is curated by Kincaid with the goal to provide artists with continued exposure during this time of intense isolation. The site will operate throughout the duration of the pandemic, with new artists being added on a weekly basis. Although the long-term future of the fair remains unknown, the founders are adamant that similar actions need to be taken in order to provide continuous support to the local community.
“Our collecting community in Dallas is enormous, but they need to stop buying off the national checklist and start looking at the astoundingly original, forward-thinking and relevant work coming out of, what I feel is, one of the strongest visual art communities in the nation,” Kincaid says. “They need to be promoting the work of Dallas artists to a national audience and supporting the creation that occurs here.”
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