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Installed today!! We are thrilled to announce Hurly-Whirly lands on 4th Ave in Brooklyn! Enjoy these pics of the Beam Center
@beamcenter team, including 2 youth apprentices, installing this large-scale work that they fabricated. It stands 11ft tall in the median at 4th Ave and 2nd St in Brooklyn. The artist David Barthold and some of our partners were able to stop by to celebrate. Special thanks to
@nyc_dotart for their support of this project!
Hurly Whirly, designed by Gowanus-based artist David Barthold davidfbarthold and fabricated by Beam Center
@beamcenter teen apprentices and staff is a colorful whimsical sculpture that will be on view for several months as part of the NYC DOT Art program. Get in touch for more details or click #linkinbio
This new public artwork is a collaboration of many community partners and we hope it will kick-off many more public art projects on 4th Ave and nearby Gowanus. Partners include: Arts Gowanus
@artsgowanus Beam Center
@beamcenter Forth on Fourth Ave (FOFA)
@fofa_brooklyn the Gowanus BID Formation Committee
@exploregowanus Gowanus Neighborhood Arts Advisory Committee (GNAAC), Old Stone House
@oldstonehousebklyn and Why Not Art
@whynotartnyc . Funding sponsorship is from Why Not Art and supporters of Beam Center, including the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, Altman Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Community Trust.
Thank you
@michaeljamesfreedman for photos! 📸
