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"IN AMERICA How Could This Happen...," postcard

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    Object Details

    Description (Brief)

    one (1) postcard
    Washington, D.C., 2020
    Description: image of white flags planted in grass
    Postcard of the installation "IN AMERICA How Could This Happen...," created by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg to commemorate the lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Obverse Text: Open through November 30th
    Reverse Text: In America How could this happen.../ In America is a public art installation in Washington, DC to honor every American life lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg brings us this participative exhibition to visually represent the ever-increasing U.S. death toll and to create a place where people unite in shared loss.
    Visitors can personalize flags with the names of loved ones lost to this coronavirus.
    Flags are available weekdays 11am - sunset and weekends 9am - sunset.
    Metro stop: Stadium-Armory
    Google Maps: RFK Parking Lot #3
    Parking: RFK Lot #3
    @InAmericaFlags
    www.SuzanneFirstenberg.com
    info@SuzanneFirstenberg.com
    As COVID-19 deaths spiked in 2020, Suzanne Firstenberg’s public art installation "In America: How could this happen…" memorialized the number of people in the United States who lost their lives to the Corona virus pandemic as of November of 2020. The work (taking up 4 acres of the Washington, DC Armory grounds) represented the magnitude of the loss and also humanized the individual experience. At the time, more than 250,000 people were represented through individual white flags, that together provided a visualization of the pandemic sweeping across the country.created by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg to commemorate the lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of the installation in October, 2020 the death toll stood at 223,059.

    Location

    Currently not on view

    date made

    2020

    ID Number

    2021.0014.26

    accession number

    2021.0014

    catalog number

    2021.0014.26

    Object Name

    postcard

    Physical Description

    paper (overall material)

    Measurements

    overall: 10 cm x 15.3 cm; 3 15/16 in x 6 1/32 in

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    Work and Industry: General History

    Data Source

    National Museum of American History

    associated subject

    Infectious diseases
    COVID-19 (Disease)
    Public Health
    2019-nCoV disease
    Disease prevention
    2019 novel coronavirus disease

    related event

    COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng4bdd3a399-9a4b-0597-e053-15f76fa0cbca

    Record ID

    nmah_2001503
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