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"America the Beautiful”
Winter 2025 - Tropical Weather
In 2023, Andrea was invited to speak at the Hirshhorn on Earth Day on art as a tool to engage the public in environmental advocacy.
Two years later, "The Climate of Future Past" creates an opportunity for the artist to come back to the art institution with a follow-up project to reflect on how art is now more than ever a necessary tool to engage people in environmental stewardship and in creating more awareness about climate risks.
Winter 2025 - Tropical Weather
In 2023, Andrea was invited to speak at the Hirshhorn on Earth Day on art as a tool to engage the public in environmental advocacy.
Two years later, "The Climate of Future Past" creates an opportunity for the artist to come back to the art institution with a follow-up project to reflect on how art is now more than ever a necessary tool to engage people in environmental stewardship and in creating more awareness about climate risks.
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The National Mall is one of the areas most at risk of flooding in Washington, DC. This is partly due to the fact that before the development of the capital city, what we know today as the National Mall, used to be an area rich in communicating rivers and creeks, meadows and wetlands. The area west of the Washington Monument used to be river. Its land mass is fully man-made from dredged soils from the adjoining Anacostia river. The area's "water memory" is so strong that the area is vulnerable to all types of flooding: riverine, storm surge, interior rain flooding.
The Hirshhorn Museum is one of several national cultural assets in the floodplain affecting the National Mall and as such it provides an ideal setting for the fourth and final artwork for "The Climate of Future Past".
"America the Beautiful" (2025) is a study for the final artwork.
More details on this final artwork to come.