Collaborations
Collective Work
Through her work with the Icebox Collective, Applequist engages with pressing social and cultural issues alongside fellow artists who share a commitment to critical inquiry.
The collective's diverse backgrounds spans multiple artistic disciplines and professional specialties which enables them to create layered, immersive experiences that provoke dialogue and reflection. They create projects that can be rebuilt and delivered through multiple actions.
Icebox Collective
Applequist also contributes to public talks and presentations on the collective's work, extending conversations around the social and cultural issues they explore.
Nomadic House Project
Remembrance
Cloud(s)
Casa de Benito
Through Remembrance artists create a traveling space for remembrance and reflection.
This collaborative initiative uses a symbolic mobile structure to address displacement caused by the war in Ukraine and climate crisis, fostering meaningful conversations while supporting communities affected by these urgent global challenges.
At a time when immigration dominates U.S. discourse, the collective created Cloud(s) to explore the topic of immigration and the people impacted by it. This installation works with the other in the series to address different aspects of what it means to have—or lose—a place to call home.
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Fairfax Park, Fairfax, VA
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Mexican Embassy, Washington DC,
La Casa de Maquio, Sinaloa, Mexico
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Foggy Bottom Biennial, Washington DC
Fall of Freedom Protest, 2025
Applequist was one of the key contributors to the Nomadic House Project. This multi-tiered effort is a public art installation that uses the same foundational house structure adjusted to explore various issues. These topics generally includes themes of home, displacement, and immigration.
As of today there have been three iterations shown internationally: Remembrance, Cloud(s) and Casa de Benito.
Casa de Benito examines politics through 1950s Pop Art, Fluxus, and the Theater of the Absurd. The piece features a pink rhinoceros—referencing Ionesco's play where the rhino represents fascism—with Juarez riding it, holding an eye symbolizing truth. Mexico's only Indigenous president, Juarez represents other . His experiences and beliefs encaspulated in his famous quote:
"Respect for the rights of others is peace."
Artist Collaborations
In this artist collaboration, Applequist and Endress explore feelings of loss, memory, and home. Remembering a fire that destroyed his childhood house, Endress created a series of collages featuring individuals who had lost their homes, each holding a cherished possession lost to fire.
Things We Lost in the Fire
Collaboration with Edgar Endress
Applequist then created drawings of these lost homes—her images adding physical and emotional layers to Endress's work by providing an embodiment of each home. Her spaces float above the ground drawn with the clean precision of an architectural drawing. Roots flow from the home depicting the deeply entrenched roots they held for their inhabitants as if captured in a detailed botanical drawing.
Together, Applequist and Endress constructed shadow boxes that house each portrait and possession beneath detailed renderings of the former dwellings—creating new homes for these memories.
