Join WSS instructor, Courtney Applequist, for a discussion and creative activity around her artist collective’s recently acclaimed installation, ‘La Casa de Benito’, included in the 2025 Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial.

The project born from the IceBox Collective (Courtney Applequist, Irene Clouthier, Edgar Endress) is anchored in the context of the Washington DC Community of Foggy Bottom, which hosts the memorial of Benito Juarez within the neighborhood near the Kennedy Center, whose historical transcendence conveys the idea of the "other or the stranger" -recurrent iconography of the Theater of the Absurd- as he is the sole Indigenous president in Mexican history, a complex figure homologous to Abraham Lincoln in the USA. Juárez sought to reform social laws, and his presidency aimed to establish a democratic federal republic.

This layered installation is dominated by a significant Pink Rhino character, a reference to Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco's "The Rhinoceros." As an…