The COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020 forced the arts to think more creatively about how to foster collaboration without meeting in person.  This year, the AFA was broken into 10 groups.  Each group was given a masterwork to study.  Each person in the group then wrote an ekphrastic poem about the work which captured general first impressions of the piece and key insights from the viewer/listener.  The poems were then given to another group who listened to them and created a unique collaborative video without ever seeing the original artwork that inspired the poems.  

Group 1: Inspired by the Dance 1.2.3.4.5.6 choreographed by Michelle Dorrance 

Group 2: Inspired by "After the Rain" by Christopher Wheeldon

Group 3: Inspired by "Afro American Symphony" by William Grant Still

Group 4: Inspired by "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" by Charlie Mingus

Group 5: Inspired by "Widmung" Op 25 no. 1 by Robert Schumann

Group 6: Inspired by a scene from WarHorse by Nick Stafford

Group 7: Inspired by a scene from One Man Two Guvnors by Richard Bean

Group 8: Inspired by "Room in New York" by Edward Hopper

Group 9: Inspired By ​"Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog" By Caspar David Friedrich

Group 10: Inspired By "Echad Mi Yodea" Choreographed by Ohad Naharin