Spotlight on AU Museum at Katzen Installation: Updraft America
Anying Guo | Oct. 15, 2016Although the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center always seems to have thought-provoking and passionate pieces relating to the contemporary cultural climate, there occasionally comes an exhibit that stops you in your tracks. “Updraft America,”on exhibit from September 6 to October 23, is one of those exhibits. Washington D.C. sculptor and former Senate aide Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s frustration with the country’s political state inspired her to create "Updraft America," an installation that uses 10,718 paper airplanes made out of a year of the Congressional Record. There is a clear emphasis on bipartisanship in the piece; red and blue airplanes congregate together in the middle and become a lovely shade of purple, the symbol of unity in politics.