BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: A Nation Grieves

DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: A Nation Grieves:

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Description of Pictures: A Nation Grieves
September 17, 2021 to December 14, 2021
This display features 24 white plastic flags from the 2020 public art installation designed by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg. The In America: How could this happen... installation outside of RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. was designed to honor and remember the lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GRIEVE_210917_25.JPG: Memorial Flags, 2020 Nearly 700,000 flags dot the National Mall, paying somber tribute to the lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States. The flags in this display case are from Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's installation on the same topic last fall, "In America How Could This Happen..." Then, she needed far fewer flags, around 270,000, to mark the deaths. "A flag will ripple in the wind and interact with the environment. And the mass of them would really look like what it really was at the time: A FLAG OF SURRENDER." -- Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, 2020
2. GRIEVE_210917_50.JPG: The National Mall in Washington DC has long been a place of monumental memorialization, from permanent fixtures such as the Washington Monument and the Vietnam War Memorial to temporary collaborative installations like the AIDS Memorial Quilt. "In America: Remember," by Washington, DC artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, helps us visualize the scale of loss due to COVID-19: each place placed on the National Mall represents a life lost. The installation invites people to memorialize loved ones who have died of COVID-19 by writing messages on the small white landscaper flags. It also creates a space for the public to walk through rows of flags, in private contemplation and in public remembrance.
3. GRIEVE_210917_51.JPG: Coping with death is often a public process. Funeral processions, rituals in worship, and burials in cemeteries are ways that deaths of individuals are honored. In the face of larger-scale tragedies, people in the United States still look to public memorialization. Items left at memorial walls, roadside crosses, and spontaneous shrines are all examples of grieving private loss in the public sphere. Amidst our current national grieving, the museum is working to document the pandemic through objects and stories, which will preserve this moment for future generations to understand.
4. GRIEVE_210918_43.JPG: Scan with your phone's camera to see details of the flags in this case.
5. GRIEVE_210918_45.JPG: Scan with your phone's camera to see the virtual installation of "In America: Remember." https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/a-nation-grieves
6. GRIEVE_210918_48.JPG: Volunteer pin from "In America How Could This Happen...", 2020
7. GRIEVE_210918_51.JPG: "A flag will ripple in the wind and interact with the environment. And the mass of them would really look like what it really was at the time: A FLAG OF SURRENDER." -- Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, 2020
8. GRIEVE_210918_56.JPG: Memorial Flags, 2020 Nearly 700,000 flags dot the National Mall, paying somber tribute to the lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States. The flags in this display case are from Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's installation on the same topic last fall, "In America How Could This Happen..." Then, she needed far fewer flags, around 270,000, to mark the deaths
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