Today I welcome artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, creator of the In America: Remember COVID memorial in Washington DC.
Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg is a visual artist who has demonstrated the power of art to touch hundreds of thousands of lives. In the Fall of 2020, images of her In America: How could this happen…art installation graced over six hundred news articles on six continents, making visible the pandemic’s cost in American lives. Her art created a national space for mourning.
Firstenberg believes art has incredible power to educate, inspire, and change the lens through which viewers understand social issues. Interviews, research, and reading ground her work on topics that include gun violence, Native Americans, homelessness, and political partisanship. The underlying theme is upholding individual dignity, a value honed through her twenty-five years of hospice volunteering.
She travelled to twenty-four states and interviewed hundreds of people in preparation for her newly completed EMPTY FIX project, a seven-installation art series to decrease societal stigma surrounding drug addiction. She had represented the United States at the Harbin (China) International Ice/Snow Sculpting Competition (2016) and has work accessioned by the Smithsonian.
EP #503 - 7.28.2023 - COVID Memory and COVID Justice
EP #502 - 9.4.2022 - The Cosmic Oasis with Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz
EP #501 - 4.4.2022 - The Quarantine Series with Gonzalo Bacigalupe
EP #500 - 3.19.2022 - RESTORING MEMORY: What is COVIDCalls?
EP #499 - 3.19.2022 - RESTORING MEMORY: A Time for Memorial III
EP #498 - 3.17.2022 - RESTORING MEMORY: A Taiko Drum Performance by Marco Lienhard
EP #497 - 3.17.2022 - RESTORING MEMORY: The Pandemic in Korea w/Hyunah Keum, Seulgi Lee, Hyeonbin Park, & Joelle Champalet
EP #496 - 3.17.2022 - Restoring Memory: Father and Son in the Pandemic
EP #495 - 3.17.2022 - Restoring Memory: Dance in the Pandemic w/David Brick
EP #494 - 3.17.2022 - Restoring Memory: COVID & the Research Community
EP #493 - 3.17.2022 - A Time for Memorial II
EP #492 - 3.17.2022 - Restoring Memory: Cancer Metaphors and Research Networks in the Time of COVID
EP #491 - 3.17.2022 - Restoring Memory: Time and the Virus
EP #490 - 3.17.2022 - Restoring Memory: The COVID Archives
EP #489 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Fighting for Health w/Gabriel Bosslet
EP #488 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: A Time for Memorial
EP #487 - Restoring Memory: The COVIDCalls Team
EP #486 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Vaccination in the COVID Era
EP #485 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Pandemic and War Part 2
EP #484 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Pandemic and War Part 1
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