POOLTIME! Exhibit and Fundraiser @Queens Historical Society
Friday, March 22nd
5:30PM – 8PM
FREE Admission
You are invited to participate in an evening of drinks and art with POOLTIME and their new public art pavilion. They will be exhibiting the POOLTIME COLLECTION, a series of framed art photographic narratives created with artifacts from the Queen’s Historical Society’s collection of the 1939 and 1964 New York World’s Fairs. All works will be available for sale and proceeds will go towards the pavilion, to be installed this summer in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Queens Historical Society, at the Kingsland Homestead
14335 37th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354
View POOLTIME! World’s Fair Artwork Series online at www.cherdevalonius.com/pooltime for all available artworks.
About POOLTIME
POOLTIME is a public artwork by artists Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong and Dev Harlan. In conjunction with NYC Parks, the pavilion will be installed at the north end of Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park this summer 2019. POOLTIME is a public pavilion and series of community programming centered around the rich history of the Park as a site for the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. POOLTIME activates an underused public space and aims to discuss the World’s Fair structures and their architectural lives and meaning post-exhibition.
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