The Gratitude Showers Challenge
In Fall 2021, the Gratitude Showers team installed our project at Oberlin College and Conservatory. The project will travel next to UH Elyria Medical Center.
Gratitude Showers at Oberlin.mp4See our original call for participation:
Gratitude Shower Animation Draft #2.movThe coronavirus has changed a lot of things about our daily lives. Lots of people are working from home right now to stay safe. Many kids are too! Some essential workers are still going to work, taking care of us all. While a lot of people are sick or scared because of the coronavirus, even in the scariest of times there are rays of sunshine. As you read this message, healthcare workers around the globe are working hard to keep us safe. Let's show them how much we care by showering them with our gratitude! Please share a word or a drawing to join the Gratitude Showers Challenge! When it is safe to do so, we'll compile your words and images into a Gratitude Showers exhibit that will be displayed at University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center. In the meantime, we'll share your words and images of gratitude via social media, so that health care workers can see them right away!
Every drop of gratitude will make a difference! But for those who are able, if you can, please consider donating to the UH Community Response Fund for the UH Elyria Medical Center to support some of the local health care workers who are keeping us safe!
Want to participate? Here are some ways you can join the challenge:
Tweet @GratefulShowers a few words of gratitude for health care workers. Keep it short and sweet--just a few words is perfect--so that the Gratitude Showers team can draw it and then cut it out on a custom raindrop to add it to the installation!
Better yet, draw your own sundrop! Use the instructions here. We'll cut it out, share it via social media, and add it to the exhibit!
And if you can, please consider donating to the UH Elyria Medical Center's COVID-19 Community Response Fund! Funds go directly to those in need!
Video Credits:
Hand-drawn animation: Maya McCollum
Video animation, sound effects, and music: Michael Gaspari
Script: Maya McCollum, Gabriel Baskin
Voice Over: Gabriel Baskin
Conceived of and directed by: Abby Aresty
The Gratitude Showers Team would like to thank:
All of the hospital workers and other frontline workers protecting our community during this crisis
Our community of Gratitude Showers Challenge contributors including those who shared their messages of gratitude, their drawings, and/or their voices
The University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center
Oberlin College and Conservatory
The Technology in Music and Related Arts Department
The Research and Development Committee at Oberlin College
The Bonner Center for Service Learning at Oberlin College
The Oberlin College and Conservatory Offices of Communication
Oberlin College Office of Foundation, Government, and Corporate Grants
Laura Baudot, Jon Logue, Seneca Block, and Samantha Huffman, Larissa Fekete