Opening Reception—Facing a Changed World

Facing a Changed World is a collaborative installation between Siouxland Public Media and photographer Ron Johns. For the past few months, Studio Manager Mark Munger has been interviewing a diverse group of our regional citizens, opening a welcoming space to share and reflect on their experiences of living through the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of their stories are heartbreakingly familiar and others are intensely personal. Their recorded stories will be accompanied by Johns beautifully spare black and white photographs. Together, Facing a Changed World, will give voice and presence to our community. It will be an important opportunity to learn more about the pandemic that we all lived through while looking towards some of the short- and long-term changes that our neighborhood, region, state, and the world have endured.