The Hearts Project Foundation

The Hearts Project Foundation A collaborative art project dedicated to all COVID-19 deaths in Arkansas. linktr.ee/covidheartsproject

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Art can outlive the moment. 🌅That matters, especially when the moment is something as life-changing as a pandemic.💛 The ...
09/03/2026

Art can outlive the moment. 🌅

That matters, especially when the moment is something as life-changing as a pandemic.

💛 The Hearts Project brings together artwork and personal stories from across Arkansas to document what COVID-19 meant to all of us.

🖼️ Every artist has a different story to tell—loss, uncertainty, connection, creativity, and the people who helped us get through it.

This is more than an art project. It’s a record of what we lived through and the stories we don’t want to lose.

Create something that will. 🎨

Share YOUR story! Link in Comments.

*If you were an Arkansas resident during the pandemic you are encouraged to particpate!
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08/31/2026

His belief helped make this memorial possible. His memory will always be part of it.

In Memory of Thomas S. Frentz (Tom)

No one believed more in the importance of memorializing the Arkansans who lost their lives to COVID-19 and honoring what we all lived through than Thomas S. Frentz, known to us as Tom.
Tom was a longtime patron of the arts before becoming a co-founder of The Hearts Project Foundation. He believed in Monica Anne Moore, the Foundation’s co-founder and principal artist of the Hearts Project COVID-19 Memorial, and always encouraged her art, her ideas, and her vision.

When Monica began cutting paper hearts in the spring of 2020, she was simply trying to process the hurt and uncertainty of a pandemic that left so many people vulnerable and divided. She could not have known that those first hearts would become the memorial we are building today.
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There were times Monica wondered if she could see the project through. Tom never questioned it. He believed in her and in the importance of what she was creating. His support helped make The Hearts Project Foundation and the first frames of the memorial possible.
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We are committed to finishing what we started, and we will always be grateful for Tom and everything he gave to Monica and The Hearts Project Foundation.

Thank you, Tom.
You will be missed 💛
In lieu of flowers donations can be made to The Covid Hearts Project.

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08/25/2026

I’m Brande Wilkerson, an artist from Central Arkansas. I’ve been creating art for more than 25 years.

I work in nonrepresentational art and costume. 🎭

When COVID shut everything down, my business stopped, team shoots were canceled, and I had to figure out what came next.

I started making masks through Etsy, then began experimenting with new mediums.

Eventually, I took my background in costume construction and design and brought it into the fine art world—creating sculptural and interactive work.

COVID also brought long-term health challenges that changed my life in ways I never expected.😷

Looking back, I have mixed feelings. I hate what that time took from me, but I’m grateful for where it pushed me creatively.

Sometimes the path you never planned becomes the one that changes everything.
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Support Arkansas Artists and give Brande a follow!

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Sometimes we spend so much time moving forward that we forget to stop and actually feel what happened.Artists have a way...
08/22/2026

Sometimes we spend so much time moving forward that we forget to stop and actually feel what happened.

Artists have a way of bringing those feelings back to the surface—through color, memory, loss, joy, anger, love, and everything in between.

That matters.

Feeling is part of remembering.

Remembering is part of being human.

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Art:
"Everything All at Once"
2020
Artist Shelley Mouber
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Artists, Help Us Tell the Story of COVID.COVID Changed Us. Artists documented it.We are looking for artists who would li...
08/12/2026

Artists, Help Us Tell the Story of COVID.
COVID Changed Us. Artists documented it.

We are looking for artists who would like to share their experiences of the pandemic through their artwork, their story, or both.

Did you create artwork during COVID? Did the pandemic change your work, your perspective, your family, your community, or your life?. We’d like to hear about it.

🎨 Share your COVID-related artwork�📝 Share your story�❤️ Or share both

We’re collecting the stories and creative work that help document what this time meant to the people of Arkansas.
If you’re an artist or creative with a COVID story or artwork to share, send us a message.
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Your experience is part of our history, and we want to help preserve it.

Art: Artist Shelley Mouber

Artist, husband and business owner - Justin Delaney Williams gives the The Covid Hearts Project his experience during CO...
08/07/2026

Artist, husband and business owner - Justin Delaney Williams gives the The Covid Hearts Project his experience during COVID.
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We all remember what the first few weeks of the pandemic was like.
Super frustrating.

I had just opened Frisco Tattoo in Downtown Rogers. I was helping a local design firm with their client and design relations when Frisco Tattoo got shut down (temporarily.)

The design firm had to cut costs. Nothing was moving forward. I took a register and stocking job at the Prairie Creek Dollar General and delivering food for a buddy of mine, Justin Eaton.

Then to watch the absolute buffoonery taking place with our own government and the masks, and the distancing, and everything.

It was just too much - so I’d had this concept for a while and I had the time. I named it “Carnivorous 19”, a little anagram/letter play on coronavirus.

It’s graphite, watercolor, colored pencil, and ink on watercolor paper and prints and the original are available for purchase.
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Thanks for sharing your experience, Justin. Art is a healing balm💛
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Art has flourished during the pandemic. Colorful collages and paintings with messages to mask-up and get vaccinated deco...
08/05/2026

Art has flourished during the pandemic. Colorful collages and paintings with messages to mask-up and get vaccinated decorate walls across the world.

There were two-story tall tributes to health-care workers and memorial murals dedicated to those who've died from COVID-19. Some images lean into the political, while others prompt hope.

We're sharing just a fraction of the COVID art out there—but, here's to all of the artists who've told the story of the pandemic these past two years with their creative modalities, especially those who've used their canvases to promote health messages and raise awareness of health inequalities.

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We have a new web addrss: 🪽

heartsprojectfoundation.org

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Art has flourished during the pandemic. Colorful collages and paintings with messages to mask-up and get vaccinated deco...
08/05/2026

Art has flourished during the pandemic. Colorful collages and paintings with messages to mask-up and get vaccinated decorate walls across the world.
💛
There were two-story tall tributes to health-care workers and memorial murals dedicated to those who've died from COVID-19.
🎨
Some images lean into the political, while others prompt hope.
💛
We're sharing just a fraction of the COVID art out there—but, here's to all of the artists who've told the story of the pandemic these past two years with their creative modalities, especially those who've used their canvases to promote health messages and raise awareness of health inequalities.
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