14-Foot Mobile Sculpture Coming To Flushing Meadows Corona Park

CORONA, QUEENS — A 14-foot box truck that has been traveling around New York City with a public art installation will make a stop in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Valentine's Day weekend.

"The House Our Families Built," which debuted at Brooklyn Bridge Park last weekend, features a diorama-style sculpture created by Brooklyn Artis Caledonia Curry that 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.

She built the piece with Jeff Stark.

"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 installation will be in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Feb. 13 and 14, after making a stop in Prospect Park. It will then stop in Manhattan's Union Square.

It is part of PBS's American Portrait initiative, 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 United States, including "The House Our Families Built."

Patch editor Anna Quinn contributed to this report.