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SEE: 14-Foot Box Truck Art Installation Coming To Prospect Park
"The House Our Families Built" is part of a nationwide PBS initiative reflecting on what it means to be an American today, organizers said.

Update: The installation has been postponed due to snow accumulation in Prospect Park. Patch will update readers when a new date, likely in February or early March, is set.
PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN — A 14-foot box truck that has been traveling around New York City with a public art installation will make a stop in Prospect Park this weekend.
"The House Our Families Built," which debuted at Brooklyn Bridge Park last weekend, will be displayed in Prospect Park on Saturday and Sunday, organizers announced.
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The art piece features a diorama-style sculpture created by Brooklyn Artis Caledonia Curry for PBS's American Portrait public art initiative, which reflects on what it means to be an American today.
Curry, who produces art under the name Swoon, is known as the first woman to gain large-scale recognition in the male-dominated street art world, organizers said.
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"Traveling across New York City over four weekends as a roving, diorama-styled sculpture constructed atop a 14-foot box truck, The House Our Families Built features a series of intricate cutaways and paintings inspired by the domestic scenes in the PBS AMERICAN PORTRAIT archives," they wrote. "Employing her signature aesthetic, Curry evokes the intimacy of home life for inquisitive passersby to discover as it moves throughout New York City."
The box truck will be at Prospect Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday near the Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard entrance.
On Sunday, the exhibit will feature performances throughout the day by those reciting reflections from PBS American Portrait's user-generated database. The performances will be at 10:30 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 1:45 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
After its Prospect Park debut the installation will be displayed in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and Union Square.
PBS's American Portrait initiative is a major multimedia storytelling project in celebration of the network’s 50th anniversary. The network worked with RadicalMedia to have artists create three large-scale stationary and roaming public art installations across the U.S.
Curry built the piece with Jeff Stark.
Check out photos from its debut at Brooklyn Bridge Park here:



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