Scaling the Wall: Public Art as Antidote to Indifference

Presented by Potomac Community Village

Please join Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, a social practice artist who focuses primarily on large-scale public art installations.

Please join Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, a social practice artist who focuses primarily on large-scale, public art installations that explore current issues with the goal of raising awareness, decreasing stigma, and fostering compassion. Her public art exhibitions, including The Empty Fix Project, In America: Remember, and alienable right to life, explore how topics such as addiction, COVID-19, and gun violence affect Americans and their daily experiences.

Firstenberg designed the In America: Remember art installation, which initially placed over 660,000 miniature white flags on the National Mall to represent every American life lost to COVID-19 up to that point in the fall of 2021.  During the 17 day exhibition, another 41,000 flags were added due to an increase in COVID deaths, bringing the total flags to more than 701,000.

Please register at the following link, which will take you to the Potomac Community Village website: Register Here.

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