Judy Chicago's Lady Parts Will Light Up The Brooklyn Sky

Image via prospectpark.orgOn April 26, fireworks will fly above Prospect Park, celebrating vaginas everywhere. The explosive display, a 20 minute show jam packed with hundreds of fireworks, 1200 road flares and 1600 feet of LED lights, is the work of feminist artist Judy Chicago.

Brooklynites may already be familiar with Chicago’s “The Dinner Party.” The installation features place settings for important women throughout history complete with vagina and butterfly imagery on the plates. “The Dinner Party” has gotten around since Chicago created it in 1979 before finally settling down for good at the Brooklyn Museum in 2007. Chicago’s fireworks extravaganza draws inspiration from this, her most famous work.

“The butterfly imagery is very basic to 'The Dinner Party,' so I kind of like that idea of that form getting out of the museum, escaping the confines of the plates and liberating itself into the air,” Chicago said. “It’s the most ambitious and complex piece I’ve ever done.” She and her team will be preparing throughout the week in Prospect Park’s Long Meadow. Yes, that means sections of the park will be closed off.

"A Butterfly for Brooklyn," as the fireworks display will be called, gets off (the ground) this Saturday at 7:30pm. It is part of the Brooklyn Museum’s year long retrospective celebrating the 75 year old artist’s work in the 70’s and 80’s.

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