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  • People on the sidewalk walk past a wall with three large posters for Resist COVID/Take 6! in English and Spanish describing inequities faced by people of color impacted by Coronavirus. In big red letters “This Must Be Changed!”
    Photo by James Wang
  • Three Resist COVID/Take 6! standing posters alongside three Juilliard posters in a row along the sidewalk in front of Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. A blurry figure walks past wearing a black mask. Foremost, in white letters on red background, Resist COVID/Take 6! poster honors frontline workers.
    Photo by James Wang
  • Blurry figures wearing masks walk alongside and between a row of large standing posters on the sidewalk. The foremost two posters are for Resist COVID/Take 6! in bright red with white and black text in Spanish, honoring frontline workers.
    Photo by James Wang
  • A blurry figure pushing a yellow crate on a trolly walks between two large standing posters on the sidewalk. The posters are for Resist COVID/Take 6! in bright red with white and black text in Spanish, honoring frontline workers.
    Photo by James Wang
  • Close up of three banners on an elevated pole in front of a building façade. “Don’t Worry, We’ll Hold Hands Again” Resist COVID/Take 6! poster flanked by advertisements for the Metropolitan Opera and Chamber Music Society.
    Photo by James Wang
  • Close up of three banners on an elevated pole in front of a building façade as people walk past on the sidewalk. “Don’t Worry, We’ll Hold Hands Again” Resist COVID/Take 6! poster flanked by advertisements for the Metropolitan Opera and Chamber Music Society.
    Photo by James Wang
  • Person on sidewalk near a subway entrance bikes past a large standing poster for Resist COVID/Take 6! with bright red letters in Spanish “!!!Esto Tiene Que Canbiar!!!” in front of a blueish blurry figure.
    Photo by James Wang
  • Pedestrians on the sidewalk wearing masks walk past a row of large standing posters. In the foreground, a poster for Resist COVID/Take 6! reads “Un Poco De Distancia Hace Mucho” in black letters on a white background.
    Photo by James Wang
  • Pedestrians walk in front of Alice Tully Hall, to the right of a metal barricade and a large standing poster of Resist COVID/Take 6! “A Little Distance Goes A Long Way” in black letters on a white background.
    Photo by James Wang

Resist COVID/Take 6! by Carrie Mae Weems

Now on view in multiple locations at Lincoln Center

We’re pleased to join cultural organizations across the country in presenting Resist COVID/Take 6!, a national initiative created by MacArthur Fellowship-winning artist Carrie Mae Weems and first-of-its-kind visual art installation at Lincoln Center.

With Resist COVID/Take 6!, Weems seeks to educate BIPOC communities about the disproportionate impact of this deadly virus on their lives and raise awareness of this inequity. Through images drawn from Weems’ vast body of work, the project highlights COVID-19’s astonishing death toll, underscores the importance of social distancing (“Take 6“ refers to the recommended six feet of separation), dispels the myth of false cures associated with the virus, encourages public discussion, and thanks our frontline workers. Weems developed Resist COVID/Take 6! as Artist-in-Residence at Syracuse University.

We’ve all been impacted by COVID-19. It’s an ecological health crisis of epic proportion—an international disaster. And yet we have indisputable evidence that people of color have been disproportionately impacted. The death tolls in these communities are staggering. This fact affords the nation an unprecedented opportunity to address the impact of social and economic inequality in real-time. Denial does not solve a problem.
—Carrie Mae Weems

About the Artist
Widely renowned as one of the most influential living American artists, Carrie Mae Weems examines how our society structures power through deeply embedded stories, images, and ideas. A gifted storyteller who works porously between text and image, Weems has developed a revolutionary approach to the expression of narratives about women, people of color and working-class communities, “conjuring lush art from the arid polemics of identity“ (The New York Times). With a complex body of work encompassing photography, text, fabric, audio, digital image, installation, performance, and video, Weems’ work asks us to look deeply at the two-dimensional image, to explore complex realities and revisit unexamined perspectives.  

Weems has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major national and international museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frist Center for Visual Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain. Weems has received numerous awards and honors, including the MacArthur “Genius“ Fellowship, the Rome Prize, the U.S. Department of State Inaugural Medal of Arts, BET Honors Visual Artist Award, and W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University. She is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; MoMA, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; MOCA, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Tate Modern, London. Weems resides in Syracuse and Brooklyn, New York. She is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery. 

Resist COVID/Take 6! is led by artist Carrie Mae Weems’ Social Studies 101 in association with Pierre Loving and THE OFFICE performing arts + film