Artist’s Chalk-and-Awe Campaign Combats Pandemic Blues

Artist Gayle DuRivage poses with one of her chalk murals. Courtesy of Gayle DuRivage

MENIFEE, Calif.—For more than a year, Gayle DuRivage had been drifting between creative calm and artistic doldrums.

Then, the COVID-19 pandemic struck. During the darkest days of the quarantine, relentless rains made dreary days seem even longer. But, now and then, sunbursts and rainbows prevailed as if to promise this pandemic too shall pass.