Event name
PCV Speaker Series: Suzanne Firstenberg, social practice artist
When
Thu 09 / 18 / 2025
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where
Potomac Community Center
Falls Road
Potomac MD 20854
Falls Road
Potomac MD 20854
Who can attend
Open to all
Price
FREE
PCV's Monthly Speaker Series
Our speaker will be Suzanne 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.
In America: Remember
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 uptick in COVID deaths, bringing the total flags to 701,000.
Additional information about this special PCV presentation is coming soon.
Here are some images from In America: Remember
Registration is suggested. All are welcome to attend this free and open-to-all talk.
Members who need transportation should indicate that they need a ride when they register by setting the ride field to "need a ride". If you are able to offer a ride, please let us know that as well.
A note on donations: Admission to this program is free, but we welcome your support of PCV with a donation at any level to help us continue to offer free programs and events to our wider community, and enable membership without regard to ability to pay.
Members who need transportation should indicate that they need a ride when they register by setting the ride field to "need a ride". If you are able to offer a ride, please let us know that as well.
A note on donations: Admission to this program is free, but we welcome your support of PCV with a donation at any level to help us continue to offer free programs and events to our wider community, and enable membership without regard to ability to pay.