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by a quarantine.”

For McKirdie, who remains a practicing artist, those same elements of problem-solving and unrestricted freedom have led to new developments in his own work, too.

“I’ve been making drawings more than I have been making sculptures, which is a different thing for me,” said McKirdie, whose work was recently featured in Gallery 110’s “Paper Mill” exhibition and the North Dakota Museum of Art’s “Art in Isolation” gallery.

But he hasn’t been the only one to grow to the new methods of quarantine creativity. The recent work from his students, and those seen on the Spokane Falls Community College Fine Art Facebook group, have been testaments to that same artistic spark.

“Those people that have found the way to modify or change their practice to incorporate the fact that they can’t leave their house or can’t be involved with other people, you’re seeing things that are different or new,” McKirdie said.

Courtesy of Megan Jones Megan Jones’ artwork “Omnipresence” gives only a glimpse at a Lovecraftian beast curiously filling up a fantasy styled snow globe with a golden castle contained inside.