"IN AMERICA How Could This Happen...," postcard
date: label: date made
content: 2020
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: one (1) postcard
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content: Washington, D.C., 2020
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content: Description: image of white flags planted in grass
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content: 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.
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content: Obverse Text: Open through November 30th
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content: 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.
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content: Visitors can personalize flags with the names of loved ones lost to this coronavirus.
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content: Flags are available weekdays 11am - sunset and weekends 9am - sunset.
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content: Metro stop: Stadium-Armory
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content: Google Maps: RFK Parking Lot #3
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content: Parking: RFK Lot #3
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content: @InAmericaFlags
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content: www.SuzanneFirstenberg.com
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content: info@SuzanneFirstenberg.com
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content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Infectious diseases
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content: COVID-19 (Disease)
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content: Public Health
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content: 2019-nCoV disease
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content: Disease prevention
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content: 2019 novel coronavirus disease
label: related event
content: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023
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content: Work and Industry: General History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2021.0014.26
label: accession number
content: 2021.0014
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content: 2021.0014.26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 15.3 cm; 3 15/16 in x 6 1/32 in